The premium Magellan Maestro 4700 GPS device boasts the acclaimed and exclusive OneTouch favorites menu and an ultra-slim 4.7-inch color touch screen. Preloaded NAVTEQ maps and six million points of interest for the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico make the Magellan Maestro 4700 GPS product ideal for both business trips and vacations. Easy-to-use premium features, such as AAA TourBook, voice command, highway lane assist, predictive traffic, and Bluetooth compatibility for hands-free calling, give you confidence on the road and deliver an exceptional navigation experience.

	Exclusive OneTouch Favorites Menu Easily bookmark favorite destinations and searches with personalized bookmarks so you can find them anywhere you travel. Find your favorite cafe or restaurant in any city with a single touch. The Magellan Maestro 4700 device definitely delivers “your favorites at your fingertips.”
	Exclusive AAA TourBook Guide No membership required. Invaluable to anyone who travels, the AAA TourBook guide, which contains information on all 50 states and Canada, is built into your Magellan Maestro 4700 and provides ratings and descriptions on AAA approved places to stay, play, dine, and save.
	4.7-inch Touch Screen The wide, ultra-slim 4.7-inch color touch screen shows your position on the unit including map route, destination, ETA, Points of Interest (POI), OneTouch favorites, street names, and more–all at a glance. The large 4.7-inch screen is 16% larger than a 4.3-inch screen.
	6 Million Points of Interest (POI) Easily find whatever service you need. Gas stations, restaurants, hotels, ATMs, and hundreds of other businesses are intuitively categorized and searchable from the built-in POI database.
	Voice Command Safely navigate hands-free by speaking a variety of commands to control the Maestro 4700. You can “Go Home” or find the “Nearest Gas” just by using your voice.
	Highway Lane Assist Realistic highway signs point you in the right direction when approaching interchanges and exits, ensuring that you’ll choose the correct lane well before your next turn.
	Bluetooth Compatibility Easily make or receive calls using a compatible cell phone and even synch up to 1000 numbers directly from your phone. Plus, the noise cancelling microphone keeps road noise down so you are heard clearly.
	Predictive Traffic It automatically analyzes past traffic patterns when creating a route to help you avoid known delays, saving you time and making your journey less stressful. Choose to stay on your current route or go with the new less-traveled route.
	Highway Exit POI Search Search for gas stations, restaurants, hotels, and more near upcoming highway exits.
	QuickSpell with SmartCity Search Enter destinations with only a few touches. QuickSpell with SmartCity search helps you quickly enter addresses and narrow location searches, making destination entry easy.
	Multi-destination Routing Plan a trip with multiple stops in the order you want, or have it optimized for the most efficient route. Easily reorganize, add, or remove destinations.
	Spoken Street Name Guidance Hear street names and directions for a clear understanding of when to make the next turn, while you keep your eyes on the road.
	3D Landmarks Visual cues, such as stadiums and bridges, let you navigate safely and easily.
	Find your Car Easily remember the location of your car in parking lots, airports, malls, universities, amusement parks, or stadiums. When your day is done, the Maestro 4700 will automatically guide you to your car.
	NAVTEQ Maps Travel the entire United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada with all the maps you need, pre-loaded on your device.

What’s in the Box?
Magellan Maestro 4700 GPS receiver; pre-loaded maps of United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico; windshield mount; adhesive disc for dash mounting; vehicle power adapter; USB cable; user handbook.

Visit MagellanGPS.com for the latest software update for your Maestro 4700 to keep it current and performing at its best.

5 Responses to “Magellan Maestro 4700 4.7-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator”

1. elisa long stewart says:

   July 26, 2010 at 12:00 am

   We love the Magellan Maestro 4700. Now my husband will never get us lost again. You can’t get lost. If you make a wrong turn, the Magellan will re-direct you once you make an unadvised turn. The screen is big and the color is vibrant.
2. Edward E. Fairchild says:

   July 20, 2010 at 12:00 am

   The Magellan that I settled on gave better lane information and much more control of traffic situations.

   Garmin nuvi 1350T gave me almost no control over the traffic information it provided. Suddenly, it would reroute me without telling me why it was doing it. The reroutings were so out-of-the-way as to not be believable.

   The lane assist information was very often wrong on routes that I was familiar with that it made me unwilling to believe it in new situations on unfamiliar roads. For example, on one 27-mile trip that I often take, which includes two interstates and two divided-but-not-limited-access roads, its lane information was wrong in 5 out of 11 cases.

   The TomTom 540TM promises to give you the fastest or shortest trip, depending on the option you choose. It consistently did not choose the quickest or the shortest routes. If you forced it to take a specific route, it would show that it was quicker/shorter, but would not choose it itself. Multiple emails and calls to TomTom support never went anywhere. I am a Software Engineer. They clearly have serious bugs in their mapping algorithms. Don’t trust them.

   The lane assist information was very often wrong on routes that I was familiar with that it made me unwilling to believe it in new situations on unfamiliar roads. For example, on the 27-mile trip that I mentioned before gave wrong information in 4 out of 11 cases. That was one better than the Garmin.

   Although it would show you traffic problems in the area and on your route, it seemed incapable of using that information to reroute me. On multiple instances, it routed me thought road construction, which clearly showed on its display, rather than taking me a variety of alternative routes that would have been faster which had no traffic.

   It also had one very annoying feature on roads that were divided-but-not-limited-access that I mentioned above. It seemed to treat many of the center u-turn lanes as though they were major intersections on a freeway. About every mile, it would tell me to stay to the left (in my two lanes) and then go straight. There was no need to stay left, because the u-turn lane formed extra for the u-turn; the left lane was just fine to use. This was far too annoying to be acceptable, even if there were no other problems.

   While I was not entirely happy with the lane information of the Magellan that I settled on, it was far better than the Garmin; it was wrong only 2 out of the 11 cases on the route I mentioned. While the Magellan is not as feature rich as the Garmin and the TomTom, for regular day-to-day use it performed the best. Its only major limitation is that they do no provide a one-time forever maps-update option.
3. Howard Land says:

   July 19, 2010 at 12:00 am

   I use this GPS System in two of my vehicles; reception and ease of use are exceptional, at least in my experience. I recently used it on a 400 mile trip (one way) to the mountains of North Carolina. It proved it worth. I am well satisfied with the Magellon GPS System.

   The Texas StRANGER
4. A. DeHart says:

   July 17, 2010 at 12:00 am

   I’ve had the Magellan 4700 for six months now and felt compelled to write this review because of what is becoming a more and more disappointing experience with the product. From the beginning there have been little nagging issues but the last straw for me was the map update policy. I’ll be quick as I’m sure no one at this point wants to read a lengthy review. I’ll just list my quick pros and cons and map update experience and leave it at that. I do NOT use the bluetooth feature or traffic add-on so can’t comment about it.

   Maps –

   When I purchased it was promoted that you get one free map update with the device. What they don’t tell you and isn’t apparent unless you dig into their website is that the free map update is good for ONLY 30 DAYS from purchase date! This seems pretty ridiculous to me. Since I purchased the device, there are several major roads including part of an interstate that has been mostly completed in the last several years that are NOT on the map it came with. They did not release another map update until June of this year and I bought the device in January. I assumed the free map update would be for whatever map was released after the device was purchased so as to guarantee you’d have current maps. It does not seem like I should be penalized for them not releasing an update within 30 days of my purchase. That isn’t my fault.

   Imagine my surprise then when I asked for my free map update and was told I could not get it. I had to pay $60 (normally $80, on sale now in July 2010) to get my map update. Tom Tom provides free map updates for the life of the product I’m told. Honestly, I realize these maps cost money but if you promise a free map update, I don’t expect to have to read the fine print. I just want my ONE free map update.

   Magellan should realize there is a LOT of competition out there for devices now and understand that map updates are critical. Without current maps, the device is useless!

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   Pros -

   - Large Screen

   - Touch screen works better than some of the Garmin devices I’ve used

   - Bright Display

   - Pleasant voice

   - AAA feature is nice

   Cons –

   - Outdated map when I received it – my FREE map update wasn’t free!

   - Buggy software and no updates for quite some time when clearly there are bugs

   - Click to go from 3D to 2D map in interface – there is no way to go back to 3D

   - Pressing letters to enter text doesn’t work all the time – frequently you’ll press a letter and it SPEAKS the letter but it doesn’t show up on display – clearly a BUG and very annoying

   - Often showing route options shows SHORTEST TIME as longer than one of the other options such as MOSTLY FREEWAY. I don’t understand how this is possible. I think SHORTEST TIME really is SHORTEST but the times displayed in the interface are wrong – another BUG

   - sometimes I’ve not been able to find some things in the AAA or Magellan database until turning the unit off and back on

   - Searching for something nearby in another city is frustrating – if you change the city and then don’t like your choice of category or go back to options you have to input the city again.

   - I’ve entered zip codes for areas instead of cities and been told they are in California when these are East Cost zip codes. Re-entering sometimes works.

   - FINALLY – FERRIES ARE NOT ROADWAYS!! – I went two hours out of my way (yes I should have double checked but we were on a leisurely trip) because the unit insisted we take a FERRY across a lake instead of go around out. The best part is we were near the southern tip of the lake (this is Lake George, NY btw) and it, under any circumstance, would have been faster to go south of the lake to Vermont vs taking a ferry. Unfortunately, the ferry wasn’t running in the early spring and the info on the map display was cut off such that you couldn’t see FERRY on the display. It was only when it SPOKE the exit (when we were at it) did it speak the full name and say FERRY which surprised the heck out of me. I’m not from the area and had thought maybe there was a bridge across the lake so didn’t think twice about it. I know now that there was a bridge a long time ago (I guess) and the ferry doesn’t run until after Memorial Day. Roads still would have been faster.

   With all this said, I’ll live with it with a current map but feel the need to double check routes on my phone now. In another year or two, when I replace it, I absolutely will NOT purchase another Magellan unit. They are slow to update their software when there are clearly bugs in the device and interface and I don’t want to be fooled again by some contractual fine print for a promoted feature such as my FREE MAP UPDATE which I DID NOT get.
5. Lisa Macintyre says:

   July 14, 2010 at 12:00 am

   I have not had this very long but so far so good. This is my second Magellan, the first one being stolen! I love the large screen! It is very easy to see, even in my truck. This one has some extra features which are nice, such as speed, compass, and elevation. As with all GPS systems, there are the occasional shorter routes that could have been taken, but knowing the area I knew the quicker route and bypassed what Maggie was telling me to do. Magellan has added more POI’s on this model which is great. It now has Dunkin Donuts! Yea!! My daughter has a new Tom Tom and I really like the Magellan so much better! All in all I am very happy with this GPS. And of course the Amazon service.