Product Description

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 waterproof, pocket-sized GPS built for driving the highways, hiking the off-road trails, sailing the open waters or fishing wilderness lakes. Color touch screen - 3.5-inch ultra bright hi-resolution anti-glare color touch screen. Multi-Destination Routing - Pre-program and plan upcoming trips with multiple stops QuickSpell - Intelligently sorts, searches and checks spelling with reduced keystrokes TrueView - Pop-up visual of next maneuver to clearly view the turn ahead SmartDetour - Automatically prompt you to route around heavy or stopped traffic on highways Auto-reroute - Automatically calculates a new route if you miss a turn Directions - Turn-by-turn visual and voice guidance Quick Release cradle - Easy removal from car to use outside of your vehicle Locate Button - Save current location to your Address book, up to 250 addresses Night View - Display automatically turns to night view based on time of day Sports Guard - The green rubber boot adds additional protection of the device, plus comes with a lanyard for portability Vehicle Nav - Routes to mapped street closest to a desired Outdoor Waypoint Trailheads - Route to waypoints using coordinates readily available on the Internet or guidebooks Marine - Take it from land use onto your boat and then enjoy you marine sport along with detailed underwater cartography Geocaching - Position coordinates may easily be entered

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10076 in Consumer Electronics
• Color: Olive
• Brand: Magellan
• Model: 980890-01
• Platform: Not Machine Specific
• Format: CD
• Dimensions: 3.46" h x 1.12" w x 4.28" l, .53 pounds
• Native resolution: Unknown
• Display size: 3.5

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.

Amazon.com Product Description
The Magellan 2500T Crossover the world's first full featured, pocket size crossover GPS that you can use both in the car and on outdoor expeditions. Enjoy driving, hiking, geocaching, boating, fishing navigation with this all-in-one GPS. The 2500T is also water resistant to IPX4 standards, and features a sleek, intelligent design with a powerful, integrated antenna, MP3 player and picture viewer.

Easy to use touch screen menus.

Built in maps of the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico.

3D mapping helps you navigate to your destination.

The 2500T is a complete GPS navigation system with simple touch screen menus, Bluetooth, and turn-by-turn guidance. View more details.

Convenient Crossover Navigation
If you've ever wished for a single unit that could guide you on the drive to the park, on the hike in the park, and up the river to the next park, the 2500T is the GPS system for you. The large, easy-to-read, 3.5-inch diagonal touch-screen is ideal for either showing you the best route to a new restaurant or keeping you on-track during your next outdoor excursion. Simple touch-screen menus make it easy to select virtually any destination and get turn-by-turn voice and visual guidance on the road. Or you can take the 2500T on your next hike, mark waypoints along the way and save the route to go again next weekend. Detailed built-in street maps of North America and light topographic maps of North America help ensure that you'll never get lost again, no matter where your travels take you.

Advanced Auto Navigation
The 2500T gives you the tools you need to make sure your next car trip is as enjoyable and hassle-free as possible. Advanced auto navigation features include multi-destination routing, which is ideal for vacations; SmartDetour to route you around slow freeway traffic; and SayWhere text-to-speech, which tells you both where to turn and the name of the street to turn on. If you miss a turn, or suddenly find yourself stuck in traffic, the 2500T will save you time and stress by automatically recalculating your route. Powerful and reliable, this system runs on a high performance battery that offers up to eight hours of use so you can search points of interest and plan your trip with ease. Once you're on the road, you can take advantage of the optional TrafficKit accessory, which makes it easy to avoid traffic with Real-time incident reports. (Note: subscription required for traffic reports).

Easy Outdoor Routing
Its sleek and rugged design makes the 2500T easy to take with you wherever you go. The included SportsGuard provides added armor to enhance this system's endurance during outdoor use. As you take on new adventures, you can even add detailed regional topographic or marine maps via Secure Digital memory cards. And whether you're traveling in the car or on foot, you can enhance your trip by listening to music and viewing pictures whether you're in the car or on a mountain trail.

Customer Reviews

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.