Magellan Crossover 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator
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Magellan Crossover GPS System The Magellan Crossover GPS is the worlds first fully featured, crossover pocket size GPS. With all the standard features of the advanced Magellan auto navigation GPS products plus the ability to go from the open road to the great outdoors with one GPS. Enjoy driving, hiking, geocaching, boating, fishing and more, all with one GPS. It is water resistant to IPX4 standard, sleek, intelligent design with a powerful, integrated antenna.
Features
- Combines all the standard features of the advanced Magellan auto navigation GPS with topo maps
- Large, easy-to-read, 3.5-inch diagonal touch-screen
- Mark waypoints along the a hiking trail to mark your personal points of interest
- Dimensions: 1.2 x 3.46 x 4.28 inches (W x H x D); weighs 2.2 pounds
- The 8 hour battery life is highest in it’s class.
- Dimensions (W x H x L): 1 x 3 x 4 inches
- Weight: 1 pounds
megellan crossover gps
Very good product. I use this on my 40 acres here in Michigan and on state land. You never get lost. Set your home base and head out. Great for hunting and hiking. I can not figure out why Megellan stop making them.
DO NOT BUY THIS GPS!!!!
Please save your hard earned dollars. I’ve owned this model for over 2 years and Magellan has provided absolutely no support. They’ve been saying they’re going to have new topo maps since the day I bought it, and they’ve yet to deliver. From their web site it looks like they’ve discontinued this model.
6/16/2010 Update to my previous review. Magellan have made it official now. Since they discontinued this model in December 2008, they are no longer providing map updates. The really sad thing is the last update they had for this model was V2 for 2006/2007. So it was out of date when I bought it and it will NEVER be updated. Not the type of company you want to buy from.
Buy a Garmin!!!!
great product
This was a used GPS and as stated it works and looks as if were new. Great product and I would recommend this product to family and friends and to use the same seller for their purchase.
Magellen Crossover
Great GPS unit. Look forward to using it for hiking.
It got us suceesfully from California to Arizona, Utah and all around Dayton Ohio.
We received the product within a few days of ordering and were very pleased with the prompt service.
Only the customer service is worse
My Magellan Crossover never made it to it’s third year. Purchased in 2008 it was fine for the first two years but after no more that 45 hours of use the internal battery faied. According to Magellan warranty person I spoke to the battery cannot be replaced. What!
A $350.+ portable instrument and the battery can’t be replaced. However, the warranty spokesperson did suggest I could use it if it were plugged in to the cigarette lighter or the charger at home. Not very helpful in a boat or on the trail. And also not true. I charged it over 48 hrs. and the best it will do is serve as an amergency night light….if it is plugged in. So if your looking for reasonable reliability and great customer service look some else, anywhere else.
Brian C
Im happy so far
I have had my M crossover just a short time but the few times I had used it Im happy with it and for the money it was a very good buy .I have no use for the mp3 thing or picture viewer , magellan should have put the money for those features into a better POI I was in front of a Kmart and it was not listed as Kmart or BigK I found other POI that should have been programmed in but were missing but I love the text too speech and street names given I havent used the cds that came with it and I havent used it on my boat yet so I can not comment on these features but so far Im very pleased with my Magellan crossover.
The Magellan Crossover for GeoCaching
I just got a Magellan Crossover and found out that it just doesn’t work well for GeoCaching. Magellan really missed a big market by not adding geocaching functionality to this unit. The device doesn’t recognize .GPX, .LOC or .GS geocache files. The only way I’ve found to get geocaches on the unit is to enter the coordinates manually or covert and upload geocache files as POI’s.
Not all its cracked up to be.
For the road this item worked okay but using it for hiking it stinks. It does not show any rivers on it only elevation’s. It has some good points by plotting where you go but to program this function is confusing. I wanted to get a program for it that had a map of Florida, they had none.
Magellan Crossover GPS
This is a great buy for a complex three way GPS that is good for trails, the road and also for marine. It has fully loaded maps and operates like a dream however if you are in an area of new developement, it doesn’t have the latest roads and Freeway exits. In my case it causes quite a bit of problem because I live near a new exit that was opened about 18 months ago however when my trip takes me to the Freeway it will route me to the one north or south of me and will keep telling me to make a U-Turn when I go the correct way. The past two years have cause our area to expand so rapidly that when I drive to a place an then locate myself on the GPS it will show me sitting out in a field. A new map will cost about $75,00,
A pleasant surprise
I bought this GPS crossover skeptical of purchasing a used one. It was just like brand new and my son has been beside himself with the quality and features of this model. I would not have been able to purchase this item new. It made Christmas for me and my son. Thank you.
OK until it broke
The good news is that the unit is small, portable, and has a decent battery life. The outdoor navigation feature (with very basic topo maps) seems to work, but the method of saving tracks is awkward (rather than naming your track first, you need to remember to name it and stop writing to it after your hike).
I use it mainly for vehicle navigation, and it works reasonably well. It does sometimes come up with non-optimal routes (compared to Google, or my own knowledge), and the maps seem to be quite out of date. It gives directions as if all roads are straight (not true in New England), and in many cases going “straight” means turning, and “turn left” means go straight (because the road turns right). It also comes up with arbritrary “go straight” messages on the highway. Entering addresses is tedious. One enters the city, then has a choice of all the states that the city occurs in – The idea that you are probably looking for close-by cities never occurred to anyone.
The bad news (for me at least) is that almost exactly to the day I brought it (so it’s out of warranty), the power socket broke off. I opened it up (since according to the website I’m on my own for fixing it, and I can fix some things) and found that the power socket was top-mounted – I.E. the only thing holding it was a few blobs of solder – the lugs don’t pass through the circuit board as they do for almost every electronic thing I’ve looked at. Basically I’m surprised it lasted as long as it did. The customer service website is a joy. To obtain a return authorization, one enters info, and then is prompted for the same info again and again!
Magellan GPS gets lost
About a year ago, I bought a Magellan Crossover to help my wife get around town (her sense of direction is 90%+ wrong, really quite amazing). I also wanted to use it for kayaking. I though I had found a great unit from a reputable company.
The facts:
The Magellan GPS gets lost. It frequently goes schizophrenic. The little pink line which indicates where to go is correct, but the directions on screen or issued verbally are wrong. The Magellan GPS has repeatedly announced I need to make a u-turn when the destination is just ahead and the GPS shows my correct position, and the little pink line indicates I should go straight ahead.
So, I assumed the firware needed updating. I went to the Magellan website. I tried to download the firmware. No luck. Contacted tech support. No help. I looked on epinions.com… I am not the only one that has had trouble with Magellan, and I’m quite experienced with computers, this was not a case of operator error.
I like way the Magellan GPS works, it has a nice set of features, lasts a long time on battery, and it has a pleasant voice, the GPS is suitably accurate… it just does not reliably give the right directions. The corporate support web site and tech support do not give the right directions either. This is a fatal flaw for this product.
It seems with Magellan and their products, you just can not get reliable directions.
Don’t buy
Magellan Customer service is the worst customer service I have ever dealt with. They offer a free 30 day map update since all of their products ship with out of date maps. This would be a good thing except it is in the fine print of their products and their customer support email address that their website list is the wrong address. I had to get through to their customer service by posting a bad review on their website. By the time they responded my unit was beyond the 30 day limit and they refused to give me the update. This is a bad business practice. Garmin has a 60 day guarantee which is posted directly on their website in plain view.
Finally a gps that does it both.
I had been waiting for a unit that would assist me in finding addresses, giving me turn by turn directions and then be usable for geocaching. I thought this was the one. However, the two features are not so well integrated. Works like all others for navigating the roads. But if you want to navigate the roads to get close to a geocache and then find it offroads, you must program a POI for driving and then program a Waypoint to find it. Not easy if you want to set up about 10 or more of them. And then Magellan has its own format so you can’t just download them from the internet into your box, you must hand enter. Might want to wait and see if Garman comes up with something. Oh, your current position icon is so big, that it gets in your way when your are trying to find stuff in a 10-12 ft radius. And the stinking “approaching destination” pop-up will screw ya up too, it clears the goto. If only we could hack the firmware and fix these things!
Didn’t last long
The product got me from point A to point B, and worked well when traveling off the beaten trail while camping as well. Unfortunately, the product stopped picking up any signal about 6-7 months later. I never received a response from Magellan CS. The unit is now just a rather expensive paper weight.
Crossover does so indeed but Magellan wants you to buy more.
I got a great deal on my crossover at Walmart. I got it on clearance for $130. If it were more than $150 I would not have bought it. At the time of purchase I had already done some reshearch on it. I knew that for the marine Mapping / chartting I would have to buy more detailed maps.
I have compared it side by side with my Garmin c550 while driving. It is not as user friendly as my Garmin. This is becuase it requires more detailed address information. At the same time The magellan has succeed at finding the correct location where the garmin has failed. One example is when There was a north “230″ and south “230″ address on the same road.
The garmin has problems with this.
For the magellan the 3D view is poor. The reason is because of the prospective. garmin choose not to show all the way to the virtual horision which is good because you do not need to see that far away. The magellan does show the horision making it difficult to see future turns. At the same time the Garmin has a virtual viewing point of lets say 30 feet above the car. This means you can see turns coming up better. The magellan has an virtual prospective much lower to virtual car. This makes it harder to see future turns coming up.
I was able to navigate the magellan web page. I was able to get one free map update for my garmin with online product registration. I found that I will have to pay for a map update on the magellan web page. I did send an e mail asking them why they won’t give me a fee map update, after all who wants to but something that has old maps. Which this magellan has, it is espically bad because of changes made to the roads in northern indiania and 355 in illinois. Oh and yea no reply from magellan
Online I found an upgrade for the virtual 3D map Prospective, making it easier to see and making the magellan more like the garmin prospective. But there was a price I think it was for $130?? for a little more you can just buy a new cheaper gps.
When you turn on the magellan there are 3 modes of operation car boat outdoor. boat and outdoor are almost the same. I have not bought any maps for the boat or outdoor. luckily lake michigan dose have a profile in the magellan crossover. it is not a very good one but at least I can set way points and get around. When driving a boat do not look at the gps like it is the same as looking out the front window. Take it slow at night and don’t run into any break walls. No I have not done this I have a sailboat and go Slow.
good buy
works well, used it both hiking and driving. Navigation instructions aren’t perfect, but I know some shortcuts the computer doesn’t.
Poor maps – customer service
Had the unit less than 30 days – have 21 map version – most recent 32 – Magellan wants $80 to update, also outofdate firmware – can’t process update on website as indicated, technical support no support at all. . Several addresses and cities are not found in the system that are located on OnStar/TomTom/Garmin systems. Have requested customer service assistance 3 times – still have not heard. Can’t return it to the store as over 15 days since purchase.
WOULD NOT BUY AGAIN
Promises a lot.
This unit just doesn’t live up to all of the promises made in the advertisements. It does do a lot of different things, but nothing well.
I could not get it to lock onto a signal properly and when it did it quickly lost it. Returned it to the dealer with no problem.
Very good, except limited data base on points of interest
I bought this unit because I am interested in both automobile navigation and geocaching. I am very happy with this GPS. It is much better than the my previous (Ostia) GPS. The Magellan Crossover GPS works well in automobile navigation routing and re-routing, with good accuracy. The voice directions are accurate and clear with good volume. For geocaching, I have used it successfully to find three new geocaches. The only flaw that I have noticed in the Magellan Crossover GPS is a limited data base on points of interest. For example, for the restaurant data base it appears to list mostly fast food restaurants.