Magellan introduces 4.3-inch Maestro 4370 navigator

It's been a solid tick since we've seen a new Maestro, but the latest and greatest from Magellan is here to help navigate you into the nearest body of water, bridge or narrow lane. The unit offers up a 4.3-inch WVGA display, Bluetooth (and thus, handsfree calling), a built-in AAA TourBook, QuickSpell, rechargeable battery, integrated MP3 player, live traffic support and an FM transmitter. We don't really see anything super special here, but Magellan is mighty proud of this thing -- or, at least that's the impression we get from the $599.99 MSRP.

[Via GPSTracklog]

[Kris @ Oct 17th 2008 8:37AM]

Sucks trying to navigate in a city with lots of tall buildings ;)

[xplode @ Oct 17th 2008 12:40PM]

looks like they're heading to j&r - surely they should have digitised that building, being the downtown mecca for gadget nerds. what's the woolworth building got? umm, apart from some height, exquisite gothic architecture, a beautiful ornate lobby... and, umm, being one of the oldest and most famous skyscrapers in the city. yeah ok, they picked the right building.

[Wwhat @ Oct 17th 2008 11:23AM]

Wow lately the prices of GPS systems are rising exponentially, it's rising a few factors more than the stock market is plummeting.
Here's a clue to the sellers: as the economy gets less solid it also means people have less money to give to you (or less incentive), so don't try to 'struggle through' by milking people, it won't work.

[blackarmy @ Oct 17th 2008 11:58AM]

Looks like they are using new software. GUI is not the same as the old one.

[funmike @ Oct 29th 2008 11:58AM]

Indeed, they use iGO 8:
http://navngo.com/pages/global/eng/startpage

[Greg @ Jan 9th 2009 3:51PM]

LET ME CLEAR UP THE FIRST PARGRAPH IT WAS TYPED WRONG


Today when I was in traffic the garmin had it on the screen that there was an accident. at the time I did not know I had this hardware error in the magallan. (can't detect tmc please reset) The only way you find out is if you go into settings and push the traffic button) Due to this error this accident was not on the screen. This morning while going to Miami the Garmin had the congestion from where it started to where it ended. The magallan had it start 2 exits further from where I was. The Location from where I was stuck was on the Garmin screen and not the magallan.

Like I said I will continue to look for traffic and test these 2 unit's out

[Greg @ Jan 9th 2009 3:53PM]

LET ME CLEAR UP THE FIRST PARGRAPH IT WAS TYPED WRONG


Today when I was in traffic the garmin had it on the screen that
there was an accident. at the time I did not know I had this
hardware error in the magallan. (can't detect tmc please reset) The
only way you find out is if you go into settings and push the traffic
button) Due to this error this accident was not on the screen. This
morning while going to Miami the Garmin had the congestion from where
it started to where it ended. The magallan had it start 2 exits
further from where I was. The Location from where I was stuck was on
the Garmin screen and not the magallan.

Like I said I will continue to look for traffic and test these 2
unit's out

[The Computer Genius @ Jan 9th 2009 4:22PM]

This is my 3rd 4370 magallan. The first one the voice was choppy, the 2nd one I kept on getting reset unit can't detect tmc hardware, and it also froze while drivng. This third one actually works with no freeze ups however today I got that tmc hardware error again :(

Well for 2 days I've been driving side by side with a 755t Garmin unit. In a nutshell I really want to love this magellan unit. But I think I'm going to keep the Garmin.

Pro's of this unit

Great and fast POI Data base

I love the screen

You can look up by zip code

the advance notifcation is great

great repsonce when you are off course

Great graphics by a lot of exits

When in Detour it gives you option what route you want.

(I reallly want to love this unit.)

con's

When off course the garmin most of the time gave a better route.

Today when I was in traffic the garmin had it on the screen while this unit later on this afternoon without knowing it I later on found out that it tmc was not on due to that hardware error but this morning. I was stuck in traffic that the garmin had on the map and this unit also had it but it started 2 exits down from where I was stuck in traffic.

Today when stuck in traffic on a main road in Miami I used this unit to get me out and it kept telling me to make uturns in circles. The garmin wamted me to go a completely different route. Last nite I was on a route and on corse. This unit told me go up a back road only would have benifited me if there there was traffic on the main road. (this was not a reroute.)

When I'm in an area and I need to find somthing like a bank or restarunt this unit will only tell me how far it is while the Garmin will tell me how far and what direction. I really need that cause if I'm going to a bank West and the bank is a 3 miles away furthur in the direction I'm going in I'd rather do that then to uturn.

a lot of times the first recaluate is a uturn while the Garmin trys to make you go on the road without a uturn.

I will continue to test these two units out because i want to find a reason to keep it. I love the bells and whistles but so far on a practal level the Garmin is winning for my needs. One thing I can't accept is this stupid hardware error with the tmc.