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Sunday, 11 October 2009

Magellan Maestro 5310 5-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator

The Maestro 5310 delivers a superior navigation experience in an ultra-wide 5.0" screen that offers large fonts and buttons that are very easy to see and touch. Advanced features include integrated live traffic alerts, a highly intuitive user interface that guides drivers to their destination via voice and on-screen prompts, pre-loaded maps of the United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada, 6 million points of interest, and more.
Customer Review: Magellan Maestro 5310
I love this GPS. The big 5" screen is readable from the back seat. I can get lost anywhere and anytime and still get back home with no problem. It's very easy to use...nothing complicated at all. I had OnStar but that became to costly. I highly recommend the Magellan Maestro 5310 to anyone who is in the market for a GPS. You won't be sorry.
Customer Review: A wonderful, large-screen GPS
This great GPS got me out of Atlanta at 4:30pm the Friday of Memorial day weekend. Yes the interstates were virtual parking lots, but the live traffic subscription was an absolute marvel at re-routing me around the worst traffic jams I've ever seen in my life. In my home city which I know like the back of my hand, it has shown me how wrong my assumptions have been all these years. My non-techie wife loves this GPS. You can read the specs for yourself. What's wrong with the 5310? Sometimes the audible voice says turn left when she should have said turn RIGHT. But the display always accompanies every turn with a clear graphic arrow, and the arrow is always correct. Always double check voice prompts with the display and follow the arrow on the display when she gets confused. If your destination in a large plaza, being a slave to the GPS directions may take you thru a few "make a legal U-turn as soon as possible" prompts as the GPS is geared to street addresses, and not individual stores in a giant plaza. Also this unit consumes large chunks of power, so don't go without plugging it in for more than 45 minutes or so. Also, don't attempt subscription or map upgrades unless the unit has been fully charged. Also, don't let curious little hands hold the GPS unless you've backed up all the addresses you've entered. One of our grandkids pressed the "reset" button on our 5310 and all our data when bye-bye. Also, I bought a hard-shell storage case with the unit and have faithfully kept the GPS in that case when not on our dashboard. Never had a lick of trouble from the unit. One other word of advice. Only use the OEM car power cord for mobile use. Forget custom wiring a power cable to tidy up. The OEM cord has built-in power conditioning and a fuse to regulate the power to the unit. Using anything but the supplied cord voids the warranty of the 5310. Customer service will NOT tell you what voltage regulation is in the cable, either. BIG deal. All these foibles are minor compared to what this GPS will do for you. I would have no qualms about driving into any strange city with this GPS. It's like having a local resident sitting with you. Better than that, a local for each neighborhood you happen to be in at any given place in that city. Example: Rented a beach house for the whole family for a week. Car brakes failed and had to fix them at a strange dealership. Took the GPS in another family car for the 4 hours we were stuck. Where's the nearest grocery store? The GPS took us there quickly. Where the nearest bookstore? It took us there next. Then a Costco, then a branch of our bank, then straight to a nice restaurant we'd looked up. OK, now back to pick up the fixed car... no problem. We went directly to each of these locations as though we'd always lived there. Just unbelievable. Learn to work around the minor flaws, and you'll be very pleased with this large display GPS.


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