GPS Blog

Thursday, January 03, 2008

Magellan rolls out 4200, 3200 series Maestro GPS units


Magellan's let loose a slew of new additions to its Maestro line of GPS units, including three models in the widescreen 4200 series, and four in the lower-end 3200 series. Coming in at the top-end of the lot, the $500 Maestro 4250 unit boasts a 4.3-inch widescreen display, along with support for live traffic information, text-to-speech functionality, voice control, and built-in Bluetooth for some handsfree calling.

The Maestro 4220 and 4200 each sport the same size screen and slim 0.7-inch design but scale back on some of the features like live traffic info and voice control. Leading the pack in the 3200 series, the $400 Maestro 3250 will give you the same live traffic info, text-to-speech and voice control of the 4250, but in a slightly smaller form factor with a non-widescreen 3.5-inch display. Rounding out the line-up the 3200, 3210, and 3220 each pack 3.5-inch displays as well, but with varying amounts of maps and features depending on the model.

1 Comments:

  • At 16 January, 2008 02:02, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    It seems Magellan have done a great job with the widescreen 4200 models.

    The voice command functionality of the 4250 is particularly useful although you have to use particular key words rather than natural speech. It won't be long before voice commands and responses follow more conversational speech patterns however. A new company Cognitive Code has developed software which can translate natural language into machine understandable concepts then formulate natural language replies.

     

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