Magellan Crossover 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Road and Trail Navigator
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend The Magellan Crossover GPS is the world's first fully featured, crossover pocket size GPS. This new GPS guides you from point-to-point from where the road ends to where the adventure begins. It is designed with all the standard features made popular by the Magellan RoadMate family of vehicle products. Be confident while driving, hiking, boating, fishing, geocaching and more. The Magellan Crossover GPS is the world's first IPX4… Product details and pricing info |
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107 Customer Reviews Posted
- 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 They offer a free 30 day map update since all of their products ship with out of date maps.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.
- 2008-11-26, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- 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!
- 2008-11-13, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- 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.
- 2008-10-27, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- 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. - 2008-10-23, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- good buy
- works well, used it both hiking and driving. Navigation instructions aren't perfect, but I know some shortcuts the computer doesn't.
- 2008-09-30, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
