Handheld GPS Reviews - Customer reviews - Magellan Crossover 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Road and Trail Navigator

Manufacturer: Magellan

List Price: $599.99
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Name: M. Fiene
Location: Massachusetts
Date: 2007-03-25
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Finally Just What I wanted
Comment: I've had a magellan map 330 for forever, and I wanted a color screen, a gps that stayed on the road (not 100 feet or more off the road)and annouced directions. I've used the magellans in rental cars, and was happy with their capabilty. The crossver meets my expectations, and its great to have all the maps as part of the cost. I am planning to buy the enhanced topo maps, because I use the unit for hiking as well. About 8 hours of battery time. My only issue is why do I need a gps to play music or show pictures. Magellan stick to what you know.

Name: V. Calvin Hoe
Location: Colorado Springs, CO United States
Date: 2007-08-13
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Crossover GPS 2500T: well worth the money
Comment: I have a Garmin c340: I used it to find my work site from Lamar, CO south on Colorado 287 to County Road E, about 21 miles south of Lamar. It kept trying to turn on every county road because I told it to do shortest route.

I bought a Magellan Crossover GPS 2500T and drove with the Garmin and Magellan side by side. On a training trip to Sweetwater, TX (450 miles south east of Lamar); by the time I got to Bosie, OK, I pulled the Garmin off and used just the Magellan. With the Magellan Crossover GPS, it allowed me to choose the most direct route using highways.

The Magellan took me through the highway from US 287 to I-10 to Texas US82 to Sweetwater. The tricky part was through the ring loop through Lubbock, TX. It took me back west then south-east on US82, a drive that would have had me asking directions if I was navigating by maps.

Being from western states, I am used to mountains as point of reference. I have no such reference in the high plains area. With the off road capability, I will map every one of the 200 plus GE wind turbines that I work on. The problem is when I am on call; after sunset, I just have a truck mounted utility spot light to locate the tower, look out for the range cattle and keep from driving off into the field and do ecpological damage to the grasslands. The other part is during the drifting snow, I need to stay on the roads as well so going to the wind turbine is a challenge when I cannot visually drive through the fields normally marked with fences. This off road topo mapped gps will get me there this winter!

Name: Ronald B. Anderson
Location: Wallingford, PA United States
Date: 2007-05-22
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Great product with some slight reservations
Comment: I'd actually give this 4 1/2 stars out of 5 if I could. It can provide navigation and mapping capabilities for roadway, water, or off-road hiking (I'm not a boater so I can't judge the waterway aspect) which makes for wonderful versatility. The road navigation works very well and is fairly easy to use. The topographic maps that come pre-loaded for hiking are not as detailed as I would like -- according to the users manual, one can purchase (at considerable cost) more detailed 30-meter topos on SD chips to replace the 90-meter maps that are programmed in, but actually these are not yet on the market (as of mid-May 2007 I was told it would be "a few months" before they would be available for purchase). The device can not export waypoints and tracks to other more sophisticated mapping programs such as Topo USA. The unit lacks a magnetic compass (but rather calculates directional bearings based on your movement) which is a slight disadvantage if you turn on the unit while standing still and want to know which way is north, for example. Satelite reception is excellent. Battery life is excellent. It is a bit on the heavy side to carry into the field. All in all it is a great product, with the caveat that if you are into serious hiking or mapping you may need a separate GPS unit dedicated to this purpose -- I plan to hold on to my Garmin ETREK for this reason.

Name: C. Ryan
Location: KC Area, Midwest, USA
Date: 2007-02-26
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Great so far
Comment: I am still learning all the features of this unit, but everything I have done so far works flawlessly. I have been able to chart our local address, add friends and family, and even put in the lat/long location for our lake house to guide me late at night on the water. I have not tried the music player or picture viewer yet, but I already have gadgets for that. This thing seems to be able to find its location quickly, and keeps track of every move I make. One drawback is that it appears to prefer large interstate highways, so when asked to give the shortest time or distance to a point of interest, it seems to prefer to stay on the big roads. Looking forward to using it this summer to hike and go boating.

Name: Kathleen Chisholm
Location: Mo
Date: 2007-05-29
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Crossover does just what it says
Comment: After purchasing this unit & using it in various applications I have found it to fulfill all my needs. I purchased this unit because of the preloaded Street & Topo maps. I do quite a bit of motorcycle travel and hiking. We have also begun Geo-Caching and found this GPS to work fantastic for that purpose. You can program in a cache location and use the Street maps to drive to the area, then flip over to the Topo maps to hike to the location.

The only downfall I have is that there is no mapping software to install on the comupter in order to layout routes and such, and the multi-stop routing is no mare than stringing all of the legs of a trip together in a row. I would much prefer to have a routing software similar to Streets & Trips that you could do on your computer then upload. But as it is everything is still very usable and reliable.

If you are looking to do Streets & Topo on the same unit, this product can not be beat. Especially for the money.

ALSO: It seems very durable, as I have dropped it and once tossed it over a car by accident. It still works flawlessly.

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