Comments on: Magellan Maestro 4700

By: Rich Owings

Rich Owings — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:30:09 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to share!

By: diane beem

diane beem — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:49:31 +0000

we tried various brands years ago, and went with a magellan 860T. Time to move up, so tried all the brands again. after test driving, (upstate NY to Long Island & back), NONE of them warn you properly about getting ready for exiting a highway. Tomtom:”ahead left, then right, then left”. ?????
Garmin & tomtom have bells & whistles to drool over, but, keep in mind, it’s not a video game. If you want dependable directions, go with magellan.
the 4700 recalculates as quickly as the other brands. All the brands hate DH’s voice, but I have no problem with voice recognition. Never misses.
Shoddy holder, no simulator, no map color changing, (meh,it’s good enough as is), no voice changes, but, as long as it tells me correct information , IN A TIMELY MANNER, clealy, loud enough, what of it?
I wish that the voice recognition would allow you to control zoom, because with the “auto zoom”(instead of split screen, it zooms in when you are at an intersection), sometimes it doesn’t zoom out enough.
Not perfect, but at least, it didn’t reboot & come up in a foreign language while trying to exit the freeway, like our other brand trial did.

By: Tim C

Tim C — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:24:58 +0000

I have the 4700 and is on the mark about 10′ on – better than Garmin which is at 30′ +
What I like about the 4700 vs the Garmin is that if you take another rout it tracks that new rout in the existing rout instead of like the Garmin which keeps wanting to recalculate and a lot of time is wasted while driving. I have always used a Garmin but after owning the Magellan Maestro 4700 I will not be going back to Garmin. One extra note the software updates for Magellan is half that of the Garmin which is a Big Plus i my Book. One more note -it doesn’t have a mp3 installed in it but I am after a GPS not a mp3 player.