I was about to buy a Maestro 3140, but decided to wait for the new series. However, what I have read so far about the 3200 and 4200 series is somewhat disappointing. I was expecting more.

Whoopee! 2-3 months after the 4040 and 3140 hits the stores Magellan comes out with a new line.

I have to feel bad for the "older" Maestro owners, because the recent less-than-impressive (from what I've read) 2.24 update will probably be the last. This is typical of Magellan - just look at the lines that preceded the Maestro series.

I urge anyone considering a Magellan to look elsewhere. Though I have a small issue with Garmin (I believe the features on the nuvi 7xxx should have been an update to all nuvis), they are far superior to Magellan in every respect. This includes overall refinement and performance and even more importantly, far superior support and continuous firmware updates.

I'd even go with TomTom and their inferior (U.S) TeleAtlas maps before I'd consider a Magellan again. They seem more progressive and their sometimes lackluster support is still better than Magellan's.

BTW, Fletch, I believe that you have the 4250 and 4220 prices crossed.

Don't feel to bad Magellan products, Magellan had over taken the PND market in June and was in the #2 spot only behind Garmin, They sold tons of the Maestro 3100. I don't think much of the entry level GPS unit but at a price of $179-$199 have won the PND market for what feature it comes with. They held 18% of the market share of all the models sold and that's pretty impressive with a entry level unit.
Garmin is still #1 and holding over 50% of the PND market and in July, Magellan and TomTom is neck and neck and it will be a 3 way race. Magellan new products at the price point will win over tons of new customers and although we are a bit critical of the features and limitations, most beginner / first time users will find the unit to be very acceptable if not excellent.
Again, compare price point and features and Magellan Maestro 3100 or 3200 compare to the TomTom One and ONE 3rd edition is probably very close, neck and neck, and the Garmin Nuvi 200 at the $349 MAP price and $299 street price is great but it is also $50-$100 more than Magellan and TomTom units.
Garmin with their new introduction of Nuvi 750/760 and 770 will replace the older Garmin Nuvi unit very soon. Garmin select to take the high road and have the top shelf units and price to match while Magellan and TomTom is taking the middle road by offering units between $299 to $499 and to compete with Mio, all three company have came up with their own answer for this Q4 price war.
Garmin C330 would only be available through Walmart and rumor have it that Walmart is going to commit to over 1M Gramin C330's to sell this Q4. That' a lot of first impression for Garmin and a great marketing tool to use. I think they are learning the Mita/Mio way by offering units at cost to get the brand out and hope to capture the market when these customers trade up and buy a real GPS unit with SiRF and TTS. lol
Magellan will also introduce an entry level low cost mini ID PND unit that is even more simple that what is available now from the Maestro 3100 unit. TomTom will continue to focus on simplicty and price, possible street price for the ONE would be around $169- $199 price range for the TomTom ONE.
By the way, Consumer Report rated the Magellan RoadMate 2000, TomTom ONE and Garmin C330 as Consumer BestBuy (best value) recommendation for Oct 2007. To bad most of these are EOL or almost EOL.
At these prices, I think it is tons better than paying $25-50 for a map book per region and buying a compass and charting your own route. We will see units sold for $89 this Q4 but I would not trust the quality or accuracy. You get what you pay for.

Just my opinion for what it's worth.

GPS4ME

Magellan needs to improve several things before I would ever cconsider it. I like the idea of being able to input several destinations, but Garmin is offering that with its 700 series. TTS is too primitive in the magellan Maestro series.

I am very interested to see the reviews for the upcoming HP Ipaq 300 series which is coming out within a few weeks I believe. Sure hope it will be reviewed here as soon as it hits the market. HP could be a big competitor against Garmin in my opinion. And they are in a position to offer their customers excellent customer service. I am very happy with the customer service for their computer products.

I like the specs for the HP iPaq 310 Travel Companion with the 600 MHz processor Centrality dual core chipset.
I think it is still a Mita / Mio unit using TA mapping software and iGO8 engine from NavNgo-Text to Speech so it is a fixed up Mio.
Will be interesting to see the test results, it is getting so competitive that I feel it is not about the hardware as much as the content. WiFi, GPRS, pedestrian mode, with 3D terrain, landmarks, 2D buildings will all be taken into consideration.
It if performs as advertised, this unit would be a great contender for Garmin, TomTom and Magellan.
Street pirce being $399, it would be a great deal if it function as advertised.

GPS4Me, I don't feel bad for Magellan but I feel bad for anyone who buys their product. In the long run their bad quality and terrible support will catch up to them.

Why don't you stop shilling for Magellan already? We know what your angle is.

My Magellan 3100 was stolen from my car. So I am looking for another GPS. I saw a Magellan 3225 (I double checked. Its 3225) series in Costco. Its $230 and looks like one of the new 32XX series.

I tried searching on the web for this series. Zero information.

Does anyone here have any idea what this model is???

Costco didnt have a demo model to try out

Well about the 3100 that was stolen. I loved it. I have used Nuvi 350 before. I find 3100 more simpler and has a more powerful receiver. 1 mile tunnels are not a prob for 3100. but Nuvi...even downtowns becomes tricky. 3100 has lesser POIs. but it was perfectly ok for my use since most POIs(mostly gas and food) have lots of unlisted POIs nearby :)

I'm just amazed at the identical grammar and syntax of those who are enamored with the Maestro line and Magellan in general. Hmmmm...

Borrowed a Maestro 3225 from Costco until the Nuvi 7xx series shipped. Ready to return it next week.

The unit is a basic pnd with the typical Maestro interface. Screen was bright enough and voice was loud. It suffers from the same probelms as all other Magellan Maestro units. And it would get confused (voice would say turn right, screen would say turn left). Mine is going back next week. I'd wouldn't purchase this unit unless you plan on taking advantage of Costcos liberal return policy.

I just returned the Magellan Maestro 4000. Their customer service is the worse I have ever experienced. I will never purchase their products again. I have a 2 page letter, ready to be sent to the president of the company. After days and hours on the phone trying to get things straightened out; I still received no satisfaction. They are the pits!!!!

I saw the Magellan 3225 at Costco yesterday and almost bought it @ $199. I bought the Roadmate 2000 a couple of years ago there for $299 (maybe $249) and promptly watched the price drop. It also suffered from errors (left vs right) but software updates corrected many. My only regret is that it doesn't inlude Canada (who cares about Puerto Rico).

Magellan's customer service is terrible. I live 15 miles from their HQ here in SoCal and I have to talk to India to get any kind of help. I've told them so a couple of times. they usually respond by sending what I need cost-free but never communicate.

I had an old Garmin GPSmap 76 (with a menu structure designed by Maze Enthusiasts), but its internal antenna must have died, as it can't find any satellites. Since my wife & I were going on a trip to visit our son in Tucson & do a big 'loop' sightseeing Petrified Forest, Painted Desert, Meteor Crater, & visit Flagstaff, and Hertz wanted an extra $50 for a week's use of their GPS, I bought the Magellan Maestro 3225 on 'impulse' (no research) for $220. Stuff at Cosco is usually pretty good, in my experience, plus I figured if the GPS as at all useful, it only cost me $220 - $50 = $170!

Although we had no experience with any new GPS, we found it simple to learn & use, without reading the manual. It is a great value, but does have these 'glitches':
- Sometimes gets confused with left & right, but it's a female voice, so I'm not surprised.
- Seems to have 2 search functions, one of which can not find things if they are over 50 miles away! Odd.

It also has some design elements I would like changed:
- I'm losing my hearing, especially higher tones that female voice have more of, so a male voice, or female smoker would be easier for me to hear.
- The screen sometimes gets washed out in the Arizona sunshine (hard to see in bright light)
- The software does not work with Macintosh computers

However, it is a good device & even provided a real moment of magic! Our time was running short on our Arizona loop trip & we did not have much time to visit Flagstaff outside of a lunch & walk around their nice tourist district. Feeling the need for a good beer, I had the Magellen, which we started calling Gyps, search for a "Brew Pub" category restaurant near us. It found one nearby, guided us to it flawlessly, and it was a great, out of the way place, but nearby, that we would have never found on our own, even if a local had told us where it was (not easy to get to). From the looks of it, my wife and I were the only out-of-towners in the place. It was wonderful, so we raised a glass of good microbrewery beer & toasted our clever Gyps!

I purchased a Maestro 3225 and it does not have any Canadian cities in it. My CD instruction disc does not work, and when I try to run it I get a blog site from Italy. The gentelman there responded that Magellan are useing his disc start up program and he's had a lot of calls from people like me looking for help. Imagine, someone from Italy answering my concern, but from Magellan...nothing! I wished Magellan personell would answer their mail and give a bit of support. Only the 48 lower states work on mine.

Wife and I bought the Magellan 3225 and have been quite pleased with it. Just went to Alaska and Canada - and it worked flawlessly all the time. I also downloaded the six million POI file and that works fine also (much, much better than the 1.3 million that it comes with). Haven't had a need for their support - so who cares. Support is only meaningful if there's a problem - so am I to assume there are issues with Garmin because you need support? :-)

I bought a Magellan Maestro 3225 yesterday for $140 at Costco. I can't tell how pleased I am with it. Ready
to work right out of box. Just used for couple of hours and I know it already. It is so straight forward and easy to use. I found it very bright, loud, chatty & accurate .
I already own a Garmin GPSmap 60CSX for more than 8 months, and also have Delorme BT-20 that runs on a laptop. So when I say bright, loud accurate, I know it is.
In this short exposure, I found it much more fast & sensitive acquiring signals, it acquired satellites in my
apartment where 60csx will not. It is so easy to use, just slide the map with your finger till you bring the destination under the cross hair, touch it and it will calculate the route for you. This is on top of the usual street address and zip address entries. And while enroute, touch a poi, and it will reroute
to that point, and will be ready to resume after that. Amazing.

Touching top left corner displays lat/long, speed, heading, a compass & elevation. Just push save button to save that position and it will calculate a route to it from anywhere. Bottom left shows segment by segment
detail. Touch the time field and it cycles eta, time/distance remaining. Touch the next turn field and it will repeat the last spoken command. It has a simulator mode too.
Comes with car/home chargers, usb cable, full mounting gear. Has SD card slot to back up. What else can I ask for 140$.

There is so much more in it. Right now I am looking through forums in search of how to make use of saved
data. With this I mean saving track history in gpx format. And since it is a wince 5 machine, I attached to my pc & browsed its files/folders. There are more females voices in there don't know how to change, and much more.
I will fully recommend it for its simplicity, accuracy and price.