Magellan Crossover 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Road and Trail Navigator

I am still learning all the features of this unit, but everything I have done so far works flawlessly. I have been able to chart our local address, add friends and family, and even put in the lat/long location for our lake house to guide me late at night on the water. I have not tried the music player or picture viewer yet, but I already have gadgets for that. This thing seems to be able to find its location quickly, and keeps track of every move I make. One drawback is that it appears to prefer large interstate highways, so when asked to give the shortest time or distance to a point of interest, it seems to prefer to stay on the big roads. Looking forward to using it this summer to hike and go boating.

It has gotten me to where I wanted or needed to go. That said, however, I've had one main difficulty. It has locked up on me several times now. This has happened when I was programming the unit, and/or when I had just turned on the unit. It has not locked up on me during a trip. I turned the unit off and then back on, only for it to do it again and again. I discovered that you have to move the reset switch to off, and then back to on. That seems to do it. If you were actively tracking something (using the outdoor topo features) at the time that it locked up, you will lose your trip information (speed, length of trip, time of trip). Of course, having a brand new unit lock up is not acceptable. When it doesn't lock up, it gets me to my destination. If you drive off the course it tells you 'calculating route' almost immediately and tells you what to do next. POI's (points of interest): I don't know where they get the data for these, but some of it is really old. The first place I told it to find me was my local gas stations. The first one on the list is one that's been closed and long gone for a minimum of 10 years. A brewpub it took me to had changed owners and names over a year-and-a-half ago, although it got me to the address where it was!

This is my first GPS and it's 'fun'. And, it's very intuitive. I was able to figure out most everything without having to get to reading or checking out the manual. That's really good in my book, because I'm a 'manual reader'. The voice is female and pretty easy to hear (vehicle navigation only has the voice). It has a headphones jack which I connected to the 'aux in' of my audio system in the car, and so get the voice through the car speakers.

I still much prefer printed maps to a GPS. But, there's a lot to be said for a device that's your navigator, when you are driving somewhere alone. If it didn't have the locking up problem, I'd rate it 4 stars. And, if the POI's were more current (I don't know if they ever even upgrade/revise these), I'd rate it 5 stars.

I'd recommend waiting 6 months to see if Magellan produces Topo Maps and map updates. There are nice features, but without maps it is just a paper weight.
The unit works fine. I wish it had better computer support. Planning trips of any distance on the computer is much easier. The unit works good around town, but cross country is weak.
The real weakness is a lack of map/software support. If you want to go fishing you're in good shape, but the system Topo map is too small scale to be useful and the good Topo maps do not exist. POI's are so out of date the day the software is published that it is a shot in dark (reality for any unit), but I like the ability to add my own points, but again computer map support would make this unit much more useful. POI's need to be updated on a regular basis. If Magellan wanted to improve their offerings POI updates on a 6 month cycle would be good, and annual map updates for 10 years on any unit would go a long way to fixing their problems. The updates do not have to be free, $100.00 per year to be able to find things certainly works for me.
The great electronics highlight the lack of software and maps. So if you like weird green paper weights, this unit is the right one for you.



So far I've found this to be a nice unit. I don't know why the last reviewer said there are no maps, the built in street maps are very accurate even out here in the middle of nowhere where I live. The topo map is very detailed and includes roads that I would better describe as cow trails. Magellan will supposedly release more detailed topo's soon.

I am disappointed in the computer support. The only computer support is the POI generator and you can only generate POI's from Lat/Lon coordinates. This is very weak, I should be able to create POI's by typing in a name and an address. I should also be able to manage my address book and create trip plans on the computer and download them to the unit. Music and pictures? I have much better electronics to do that.

I have had the unit for about three days and have experienced one lockup that required me to power off and restart it. I have also encountered one software bug. DON'T zoom the topo map out as far as it will go. Apparently a programmer forgot to check an upper limit and the unit will lock up, restart and then will lock up and restart every time you try to view the topo map again. I have had little to no response from tech support yet on this issue, but was able to fix it myself by searching for a POI, selecting one and then viewing it on the map. This caused the map to rezoom back in to the minimum and it's been OK since.

Overall, I have found this unit to be well built and programmed. There are some improvements that can be made and I will be looking forward to firmware upgrades in the near future.

ALSO, the technical details on the Amazon page are in error. The unit DOES include both the AC and car adapter. So you DON'T need to purchase additional power adapters like I did.

This is a good product for the money. It is the only one on the market that does both driving and Hiking/ Geocaching both in the same unit. It is also the only combo unit that is splash resistant. NOT WATER PROOF!!! IPX4 is splash resistant up to so many liters/ minute. Better than a unit that would zap out even if damp!!! Easy to read screens with multiple color options for maps. Very nice automatic night viewing option that changes the screen to a 'negative' light. Very clear voice turn-by-turn directions. Very fast rerouting when you go off course. Great functions for steering around traffic.
The unit does have some negatives. Fisrt, Magellan put this stupid sticker on the GPS screen to 'simulate' the screen while in the package. The sticker left the sticky residue all over the screen. Alcohol and a soft cloth took it off, but why do something like that Magellan? Also, the mapset is OLD. I could not find my work location via the search. The road is not on the map and the address is not in the database. Granted, my work developement is newer (2000). The map data NAVTEQ (mapset provider) has on their website HAS the road. Magellan does not have a map update from NAVTEQ on the support site. The POI's are also old. A lot of gas stations I pass are not on the map. Restaurant icons are in places there are no restaurants. I had one instance that the GPS was WAY off, which required a restart to get my 'vehicle icon' back on track. One thing Magellan doesn't tell you is that the installed Topo map only goes to 300 feet detail level and in order to get detailed Topo maps (with rivers and greater detail), you have to purchase separate software from Magellan. A bit misleading if you ask me.
Overall, I'm happy with the unit. Hopefully, Magellan gets on the ball with a mapset update. I already have an email into them. Anyone looking for a nice GPS unit with features that others charge an extra $100 plus for, this is the one!

This product works great as a turn by turn GPS. I also love it for walking and tracking in the parks. I have not used the marine part yet, but I am sure it will be great also. I would recommend this product.

I've had a magellan map 330 for forever, and I wanted a color screen, a gps that stayed on the road (not 100 feet or more off the road)and annouced directions. I've used the magellans in rental cars, and was happy with their capabilty. The crossver meets my expectations, and its great to have all the maps as part of the cost. I am planning to buy the enhanced topo maps, because I use the unit for hiking as well. About 8 hours of battery time. My only issue is why do I need a gps to play music or show pictures. Magellan stick to what you know.

I could not be happier with this purchase. Within minutes of turning it on I was up and running without really reading the instructions. For driving directions this does exactly what I needed it to, mainly get me to where I wanted to go. I haven't had a chance to use the offroad capabilities yet but certainly will soon. POI feature is useful but not always accurate. But that's not what I bought it for. Final word, I LOVE this device.

For the price you can't buy a better gps product. It's very easy to use! The only reason I gave it 4 stars is that it should have more updated maps.

I bought this for my husband's birthday and he is really having a lot of fun learning to use it. It is so easy that it hasn't taken him long. We have used it on road trips and he can't wait to get out fishing in the mountains to try it out there.

I really like the ease of use of both the street portion and the topo portion of my new crossover GPS. I'll never use the music stuff and think that is a waste. I've never owned a GPS, my husband has a Garmin and I've never really been able to master his. I needed this one because I'm developing neurological problems and need help when I get lost driving around town. I also like to take walks and sometimes have trouble which this GPS has allowed me to stay active. This one is really easy to use, You can just set home and it calculates the route home. Or with Topo, you can set a base camp and it tracks where you go and then calculates a route back to camp. Fantastic and easy to read. The Points of Interest are way out of date and there needs to be a way to up date those to something more current. Also some of the more recent streets in my town are missing. Overall it more than meets my needs and I only need one GPS for both driving and hikes in the woods.

I researched every GPS on the market with specific needs in mind. I needed a unit that was versatile enough to be used in my Land Rover during off road jaunts, Weather resistant for when I get caught in the rain on my Honda Gold Wing motorcycle and easily moved from my vehicle to a rental car when I travel for business. The Magellan Crossover GPS fits the bill in every respect. The unit comes with all of the map data necessary out of the box to satisfy almost all of your needs. The optional Topographical maps complete the package. The unit acquires satellite signals rapidly and the automatic detour function is very handy when needed. The "text to speech" feature is clear and easily understood and heard even on a motorcycle. The battery life lasts for about 7-8 constant hours of usage. I will be purchasing a second Magellan Crossover GPS in the near future.

First of its kind. Claimed to provide a good mix of on and off road, and water, navigation. I find the mapping is not good in my area, Northern California. It sends my to non-existent roads, is unable to find streets in places like bend, OR. It had me exit a freeway and then re-enter at the same spot???? The included off road maps do not shown forest service roads however their is an optional Topo Map which may or may not, they can't tell me. It may be a mute point since the Topo maps are only available on CD and this unit uses SD cards. Seems this was a rush to market product before Garmin. Great concept...not so good execution.

Well liked cross over gps unit. The only down fall I have found is a poorly upgraded map system and the fact of not being able to put streets into system. Other then that down feature it is well liked. My kids have found it more of a ease to use when doing the geo caching then a standard gps unit.
Robert Thompson, Jr

Nice, but the internal map is old.
Los mapas internos son muy desactualizados, los POI también están muy desactualizados.


I recently started working in real estate so I figured I better get a GPS to help me navigate the city. Man, am I glad I did! Just enter an address and the Magellan will get you there. One neat feature is it shows a diagram of how to navigate upcoming 'devices' such as traffic circles, which we have a lot of here in Massachusetts. My only beef thus far is that it could do a better job of identifying cross streets as you drive.

I have used Neverlost in Hertz for years so it was so easy to operate this model. It is light and very portable. I use it in the car and in the bay.

Hello fellow buyers,

I have purchase this Magellan Crossover Vehicle GPS with Topographic Maps system for the same reason you are looking at outdoor and marine combined with vehicle navigation.

Please notice that the creator of the Crossover have good marketing and ignore the needs of the users,
If you are a internet buyer I'm sure that you wishes that everything in this navigation will be computer friendly ***NOT THIS TIME***

The main reason I bought this item is to use for outdoor. Magellan mentioned in their manual and web site that you can import waypoint but they neglect to indicate that the waypoint import features works only on vehicle Nav.

Now you guys tell me who use coordinates to find a street.... Or to put your friend on your favorite...

Sucks , Now I have to put all of my OUTDOOR ROUTS manually..... very wised

I contact customer support and they confirm all above....


Wonderful product; exceeds all my expectations.
Reliable and easy to use and has already saved me many traffic snarls by choosing alternate routes.

One of the main reasons I bought the Magellan Crossover GPS was to take advantage of "SmartDetour to route you around slow freeway traffic" (copied and pasted directly from Product Description). This feature DOES NOT WORK as it ought.

Complaints:

#1) The answer is NO, the unit does NOT receive traffic report data, contrary to popular urban myth. It simply detects when you're traveling too slowly on freeway routes and then displays a detour option (SmartDetour) on the left edge of the touch-screen. Aside from the convenience of popping up the detour option on the screen, it is EXACTLY the same feature as the detour feature of Magellan's cheaper models. This feature allows you to "route around slow freeway traffic" by electing to leave the freeway for a selected number of miles/kilometers, theoretically bringing you potentially beyond a given traffic jam by way of alternate routes then bringing you back onto the freeway.

#2) SmartDetour doesn't work efficiently, rerouting in inconvenient directions and often entailing a great deal of backtracking. I've found that manually rerouting using the "Least Use of Freeways" option is much more accurate and efficient for getting around traffic jams. My assessment of the SmartDetour option is that it's mostly useless for its intended purpose. There's nothing smart about it!

Rant's aside, the unit is quite handy and useful. It consistently keeps me on-track, even when I deliberately drive "off course" or when exploring unfamiliar territory. Day or night, even without looking at her, GyPSy keeps me from getting lost. Aside from the obvious G, P & S in her name, I call her (the voice guide) GyPSy because she's a lady of the streets - she knows them well - and she has a firm yet somehow earthy voice. The voice guide can optionally be muted through touch-screen selections.

I was expecting a bit more sophistication for the extra $160 I spent on the Magellan CrossoverGPS as a replacement for my broken Magellan RoadMate 2000 (see my review on that product). But the Crossover is still a good reliable product which I'd recommend for most common uses. And the price has already come down nearly $30!

By the by:

#1) The little tab loop for attaching a lanyard which is shown as being at the top right corner in many pictures of this product does not actually exist, at least not on all/most units of this model.

#2) The "Green" part of this product is just a removable soft rubber sleeve. The unit itself is black.

Ordered crossover in January and while entering waypoints it locked up. Sent back to the GPS store for an exchange. Just went on trip from Boise Id to Las Vegas and the new unit locked up and kept returning to the Blue Screen. Contacted Magellan and they said a software update would fix it. Downloaded update last night and it appears it fixed the problem. Will see. I was ready to try to exhange it for a different unit but Magellan said this would work-Hopefully we will see. The tech support guy I talked to was difficult to talk to. He sounded like he was revved up on Red Bull and took forever to get him on the line. Tech support sucks. To use the topo and marine functions you have to buy memory cards loaded with the program at $200 a pop. That really sucks to have to buy cards at that price. Half that I could swallow. Further use, more money spent on sd cards will tell if it performs as expected. So far skeptical.

Just got mine 3 days ago. The road mapping works pretty good. It has tried to take me down some dead end roads in town, but paper maps show the roads as through streets too, GIGO! The battery seems to give 7-8 hours of life. POIs are a bit disappointing, in town maybe 30% of gas stations, restaurants, etc are shown. Could be because I live in a small kinda rural town, 9K people. One thing I can't figure out is how to show all the POI's. For example find all hotels near Kalispell MT, the GPS says >25, but it only displays 25. How do I see the rest? I looked at the topo maps and it seems that what everyone else has said is true. I did a 110 mile trip on Hwy 101 today and it kept good satellite lock and position in heavy foliage with me holding it in my lap in the back of a van. Waiting for motorcycle mount so I can use it in bike. Plan to use it in the car also, but bought it primarily for motorcycle use.

I love this GPS...for one thing it has a large enough screen that I can see the map without pulling over and putting on reading glasses. Very friendly verbal driving directions. I like that the color scheme automatically changes in the evening making it not so bright then. My only complaint is that the green rubber protection piece (which can come off) is a bit loose. A tighter fit would be better. It comes with the car cigarette adapter which was not clear from the Amazon page.

I'd actually give this 4 1/2 stars out of 5 if I could. It can provide navigation and mapping capabilities for roadway, water, or off-road hiking (I'm not a boater so I can't judge the waterway aspect) which makes for wonderful versatility. The road navigation works very well and is fairly easy to use. The topographic maps that come pre-loaded for hiking are not as detailed as I would like -- according to the users manual, one can purchase (at considerable cost) more detailed 30-meter topos on SD chips to replace the 90-meter maps that are programmed in, but actually these are not yet on the market (as of mid-May 2007 I was told it would be "a few months" before they would be available for purchase). The device can not export waypoints and tracks to other more sophisticated mapping programs such as Topo USA. The unit lacks a magnetic compass (but rather calculates directional bearings based on your movement) which is a slight disadvantage if you turn on the unit while standing still and want to know which way is north, for example. Satelite reception is excellent. Battery life is excellent. It is a bit on the heavy side to carry into the field. All in all it is a great product, with the caveat that if you are into serious hiking or mapping you may need a separate GPS unit dedicated to this purpose -- I plan to hold on to my Garmin ETREK for this reason.

Great unit on and off road so far. Still trying to figure out how to exchange data with computer. Not sure it interfaces well with MapSend.

The off road software works great for what I use it for, point to point navigation on both land and water. The street navigator is really quite good but not as intuitive to use as my Garmin nuvi350. The mp3 player is the weak link in this unit. The volume output is to low to properly power a small pair of head phones. It is not capable of playing music while navigating and having the voice commands over ride the music like the Garmin units do. The auto power off feature is also a bit of a dissapointment. It does not always power off automaticlly so you can run the battery down. Remember to turn if off manually. The big advantage this unit has is that you can do all your navigating in one unit. Overall a great product but has room for some minor improvements.

After purchasing this unit & using it in various applications I have found it to fulfill all my needs. I purchased this unit because of the preloaded Street & Topo maps. I do quite a bit of motorcycle travel and hiking. We have also begun Geo-Caching and found this GPS to work fantastic for that purpose. You can program in a cache location and use the Street maps to drive to the area, then flip over to the Topo maps to hike to the location.

The only downfall I have is that there is no mapping software to install on the comupter in order to layout routes and such, and the multi-stop routing is no mare than stringing all of the legs of a trip together in a row. I would much prefer to have a routing software similar to Streets & Trips that you could do on your computer then upload. But as it is everything is still very usable and reliable.

If you are looking to do Streets & Topo on the same unit, this product can not be beat. Especially for the money.

ALSO: It seems very durable, as I have dropped it and once tossed it over a car by accident. It still works flawlessly.

The GPS unit and included software is a bargain in today's market.
TOPO software prices alone, pay for it.

I guess I had higher expectations for this product. I bought it to use for road travel as well as hiking an Geocaching.

For the on-road use there were several things that annoyed me. First, there was a delay at some times when pushing buttons. I did not now if I had pushed it or not. Also, to mute it you have to go into a sub-menu then hit a mute button, then save. Should be a single click.
One of the first times I used it by blindly following the directions, it had me take an exit only to immediately take a turn on to the entrance ramp to get back on the same road.
The voice feedback is good, but it reads out every letter when typing in a street name. If I am typing, I am obviously looking at the screen and I don't need it to repeat each letter back to me. Also, for several of the street names it was difficult to understand. I knew the street name but I could not recognize it from it's verbalization.
For hiking use, I could not figure out how to download the coordinate files (loc or gpx) into the system. Maybe there is a way, but after an hour I gave up. It should not be that hard for something advertised as a hiking system. Also, It was not clear to me when I bought it that it includes 90 m (contour lines) topo maps, but the 30 m map is extra. I'll stick with my $100 model for hiking.

For many people this product might be ok but I expected better usability. It almost seems like a knock-off of a well designed product (a lot of advertised features but hard to use), but if that's the case it should be half the price.

The pouch (extra accessory) is very nice and well made.

great GPS easy to use compact and detailed. this unit came with all we needed windshield mount (really good one, too!) car adapter and ac adapter-- and you can remove the gross green rubber cover when you dont need the extra protection. battery lasts and lasts -- best one Magellan put out

One the whole, I like my M. Crossover. Generally speaking, it does everything I need it for in regard to GPS. I do not use mine for the audio or visual playback and do not care about those functions. To date, I have done nothing with the computer software either and cannot vouch for that aspect.

The best features to me were in having a GPS unit that I could use to plot courses in the car and yet have a GPS that would work well for hiking. I have driven all over north Texas with the unit and had it mark my travels in both the road mode and outdoor (hiking/contour map) mode. I have not used it in the Marine mode. With just a few exceptions, it has had all the roads I have been on. The exceptions were a couple of very small roads in the middle of nowhere and roads in a brand new development. No surprise. Strangely, it had some dirt roads that I would not have expected. So that was really handy.

In the outdoor mode, I have plotted various key points and had it track my progress, both while driving and while hiking. It has done this all relatively well.

Before I go further, let me say that if I lost this unit, I would not hesitate in getting another. However, it is not a perfect unit and has some shortcomings that are a bit of a bother, but not fatal at all. It has been my experience that all GPS units seem to have various shortcomings, often varying depending on the type of intended use of the unit. I do think the Crossover, with its shortcomings, does enough of the cross over functions to cover my needs sufficiently well and I do not currently see any other units on the market that match it in such versatility.

I have run the unit on battery (most of the time) and while charging in the car. I have charged it with the 120v outlet charger as well. They promise 8 hours of run time and so far I have run as much as 6 on full screen brightness and not run out of power. The 8 hour estimate seems good.

On my recreational property, I have plotted the locations of the property corners, gates, and other specific locations. Subsequent return trips have the show very good match between my previous plots and locations, to just a few feet, well within the unit's specifications. It performs consistently well in this regard, as it should.

The shortcomings...
In the 150+ hours of use with probably 80 or 90 start-ups, I have had it fail to properly boot 4 times. This necessitated the use of the reset switch on the side and after resetting, the unit booted fine.

The green rubber ring around the unit is to help absorb shock if dropped and it probably does help to some extent (I have dropped it once). However, it is prone to slip off when carried in a pocket or pack during periods of lots of motion and the grippy aspect of the rubber can make it hard to extract the unit from a snug pocket if one wants the rubber ring remaining on the unit.

The on screen controls vary with the mode that it is in and as such, the features I like in one mode are not in the same place in the other mode and that can be a bit annoying if you go between modes on a regular basis. This is especially true of the brightness function that is onscreen on the map page in the outdoor mode but not in the car mode.

You can't plot points in the car mode, but if you are in the car mode, the map does not show the icons for gas/food etc. that it does in the outdoor mode. That seemed a bit counter-intuitive.

I have medium-sized guy fingers and sometimes find that I have not been able to precisely press an onscreen button properly. Maybe I need more practice or smaller fingers.

Even on the brightest setting and while out in the sunlight, it can be hard to see the image on the screen. As long as sun is not shining directly on the screen in the car, it does well enough.

As with all GPS units I have used or experienced in the past, letting the GPS decide your route from point A to B should not mean that the traveler should blindly accept the route as the best option, even with the various choices given (fastest, shortest, most use of freeways, etc.). It will get you from point A to B, but what it asserts is the best route may actually be much less than optimal.

I don't know of any other way to charge the unit other than with the accessories provided. You can't take the unit on a 2 day hike and use it all the time without running down the battery and you can't change out the battery. It would be nice if there was a separate battery pack that could be jacked in or a solar charger. Otherwise, the unit is somewhat limited to either sporadic use on multi-day hikes or day hiking because of the battery limitation.

Lastly, while it can track something like 14 satellites, it can lose track of them as well. While hiking in Big Bend with the mountains, signals came and went a lot. It was a bit annoying. No doubt this will happen with other units as well, but the access to 14 didn't seem to make it keep track any more often or continually than with other GPS units I have used.

As I noted above, I would buy this unit again if I had to replace the current unit. I harped on the shortcomings because if you have read Magellan's promo for the Crossover, then you know what it can do and it has been my experience that it pretty well does what is claimed. I only point out the shortcomings such that other potential buyers can make a better informed decision.

The GPS unit and included software is a bargain in today's market.
TOPO software prices alone, pay for it.

I guess I had higher expectations for this product. I bought it to use for road travel as well as hiking an Geocaching.

For the on-road use there were several things that annoyed me. First, there was a delay at some times when pushing buttons. I did not now if I had pushed it or not. Also, to mute it you have to go into a sub-menu then hit a mute button, then save. Should be a single click.
One of the first times I used it by blindly following the directions, it had me take an exit only to immediately take a turn on to the entrance ramp to get back on the same road.
The voice feedback is good, but it reads out every letter when typing in a street name. If I am typing, I am obviously looking at the screen and I don't need it to repeat each letter back to me. Also, for several of the street names it was difficult to understand. I knew the street name but I could not recognize it from it's verbalization.
For hiking use, I could not figure out how to download the coordinate files (loc or gpx) into the system. Maybe there is a way, but after an hour I gave up. It should not be that hard for something advertised as a hiking system. Also, It was not clear to me when I bought it that it includes 90 m (contour lines) topo maps, but the 30 m map is extra. I'll stick with my $100 model for hiking.

For many people this product might be ok but I expected better usability. It almost seems like a knock-off of a well designed product (a lot of advertised features but hard to use), but if that's the case it should be half the price.

The pouch (extra accessory) is very nice and well made.

great GPS easy to use compact and detailed. this unit came with all we needed windshield mount (really good one, too!) car adapter and ac adapter-- and you can remove the gross green rubber cover when you dont need the extra protection. battery lasts and lasts -- best one Magellan put out

After purchasing this unit & using it in various applications I have found it to fulfill all my needs. I purchased this unit because of the preloaded Street & Topo maps. I do quite a bit of motorcycle travel and hiking. We have also begun Geo-Caching and found this GPS to work fantastic for that purpose. You can program in a cache location and use the Street maps to drive to the area, then flip over to the Topo maps to hike to the location.

The only downfall I have is that there is no mapping software to install on the comupter in order to layout routes and such, and the multi-stop routing is no mare than stringing all of the legs of a trip together in a row. I would much prefer to have a routing software similar to Streets & Trips that you could do on your computer then upload. But as it is everything is still very usable and reliable.

If you are looking to do Streets & Topo on the same unit, this product can not be beat. Especially for the money.

ALSO: It seems very durable, as I have dropped it and once tossed it over a car by accident. It still works flawlessly.

Just got mine 3 days ago. The road mapping works pretty good. It has tried to take me down some dead end roads in town, but paper maps show the roads as through streets too, GIGO! The battery seems to give 7-8 hours of life. POIs are a bit disappointing, in town maybe 30% of gas stations, restaurants, etc are shown. Could be because I live in a small kinda rural town, 9K people. One thing I can't figure out is how to show all the POI's. For example find all hotels near Kalispell MT, the GPS says >25, but it only displays 25. How do I see the rest? I looked at the topo maps and it seems that what everyone else has said is true. I did a 110 mile trip on Hwy 101 today and it kept good satellite lock and position in heavy foliage with me holding it in my lap in the back of a van. Waiting for motorcycle mount so I can use it in bike. Plan to use it in the car also, but bought it primarily for motorcycle use.

I love this GPS...for one thing it has a large enough screen that I can see the map without pulling over and putting on reading glasses. Very friendly verbal driving directions. I like that the color scheme automatically changes in the evening making it not so bright then. My only complaint is that the green rubber protection piece (which can come off) is a bit loose. A tighter fit would be better. It comes with the car cigarette adapter which was not clear from the Amazon page.

I'd actually give this 4 1/2 stars out of 5 if I could. It can provide navigation and mapping capabilities for roadway, water, or off-road hiking (I'm not a boater so I can't judge the waterway aspect) which makes for wonderful versatility. The road navigation works very well and is fairly easy to use. The topographic maps that come pre-loaded for hiking are not as detailed as I would like -- according to the users manual, one can purchase (at considerable cost) more detailed 30-meter topos on SD chips to replace the 90-meter maps that are programmed in, but actually these are not yet on the market (as of mid-May 2007 I was told it would be "a few months" before they would be available for purchase). The device can not export waypoints and tracks to other more sophisticated mapping programs such as Topo USA. The unit lacks a magnetic compass (but rather calculates directional bearings based on your movement) which is a slight disadvantage if you turn on the unit while standing still and want to know which way is north, for example. Satelite reception is excellent. Battery life is excellent. It is a bit on the heavy side to carry into the field. All in all it is a great product, with the caveat that if you are into serious hiking or mapping you may need a separate GPS unit dedicated to this purpose -- I plan to hold on to my Garmin ETREK for this reason.

Great unit on and off road so far. Still trying to figure out how to exchange data with computer. Not sure it interfaces well with MapSend.

The off road software works great for what I use it for, point to point navigation on both land and water. The street navigator is really quite good but not as intuitive to use as my Garmin nuvi350. The mp3 player is the weak link in this unit. The volume output is to low to properly power a small pair of head phones. It is not capable of playing music while navigating and having the voice commands over ride the music like the Garmin units do. The auto power off feature is also a bit of a dissapointment. It does not always power off automaticlly so you can run the battery down. Remember to turn if off manually. The big advantage this unit has is that you can do all your navigating in one unit. Overall a great product but has room for some minor improvements.

First of its kind. Claimed to provide a good mix of on and off road, and water, navigation. I find the mapping is not good in my area, Northern California. It sends my to non-existent roads, is unable to find streets in places like bend, OR. It had me exit a freeway and then re-enter at the same spot???? The included off road maps do not shown forest service roads however their is an optional Topo Map which may or may not, they can't tell me. It may be a mute point since the Topo maps are only available on CD and this unit uses SD cards. Seems this was a rush to market product before Garmin. Great concept...not so good execution.

Well liked cross over gps unit. The only down fall I have found is a poorly upgraded map system and the fact of not being able to put streets into system. Other then that down feature it is well liked. My kids have found it more of a ease to use when doing the geo caching then a standard gps unit.
Robert Thompson, Jr

Nice, but the internal map is old.
Los mapas internos son muy desactualizados, los POI también están muy desactualizados.


I recently started working in real estate so I figured I better get a GPS to help me navigate the city. Man, am I glad I did! Just enter an address and the Magellan will get you there. One neat feature is it shows a diagram of how to navigate upcoming 'devices' such as traffic circles, which we have a lot of here in Massachusetts. My only beef thus far is that it could do a better job of identifying cross streets as you drive.

I have used Neverlost in Hertz for years so it was so easy to operate this model. It is light and very portable. I use it in the car and in the bay.

Hello fellow buyers,

I have purchase this Magellan Crossover Vehicle GPS with Topographic Maps system for the same reason you are looking at outdoor and marine combined with vehicle navigation.

Please notice that the creator of the Crossover have good marketing and ignore the needs of the users,
If you are a internet buyer I'm sure that you wishes that everything in this navigation will be computer friendly ***NOT THIS TIME***

The main reason I bought this item is to use for outdoor. Magellan mentioned in their manual and web site that you can import waypoint but they neglect to indicate that the waypoint import features works only on vehicle Nav.

Now you guys tell me who use coordinates to find a street.... Or to put your friend on your favorite...

Sucks , Now I have to put all of my OUTDOOR ROUTS manually..... very wised

I contact customer support and they confirm all above....


Wonderful product; exceeds all my expectations.
Reliable and easy to use and has already saved me many traffic snarls by choosing alternate routes.

One of the main reasons I bought the Magellan Crossover GPS was to take advantage of "SmartDetour to route you around slow freeway traffic" (copied and pasted directly from Product Description). This feature DOES NOT WORK as it ought.

Complaints:

#1) The answer is NO, the unit does NOT receive traffic report data, contrary to popular urban myth. It simply detects when you're traveling too slowly on freeway routes and then displays a detour option (SmartDetour) on the left edge of the touch-screen. Aside from the convenience of popping up the detour option on the screen, it is EXACTLY the same feature as the detour feature of Magellan's cheaper models. This feature allows you to "route around slow freeway traffic" by electing to leave the freeway for a selected number of miles/kilometers, theoretically bringing you potentially beyond a given traffic jam by way of alternate routes then bringing you back onto the freeway.

#2) SmartDetour doesn't work efficiently, rerouting in inconvenient directions and often entailing a great deal of backtracking. I've found that manually rerouting using the "Least Use of Freeways" option is much more accurate and efficient for getting around traffic jams. My assessment of the SmartDetour option is that it's mostly useless for its intended purpose. There's nothing smart about it!

Rant's aside, the unit is quite handy and useful. It consistently keeps me on-track, even when I deliberately drive "off course" or when exploring unfamiliar territory. Day or night, even without looking at her, GyPSy keeps me from getting lost. Aside from the obvious G, P & S in her name, I call her (the voice guide) GyPSy because she's a lady of the streets - she knows them well - and she has a firm yet somehow earthy voice. The voice guide can optionally be muted through touch-screen selections.

I was expecting a bit more sophistication for the extra $160 I spent on the Magellan CrossoverGPS as a replacement for my broken Magellan RoadMate 2000 (see my review on that product). But the Crossover is still a good reliable product which I'd recommend for most common uses. And the price has already come down nearly $30!

By the by:

#1) The little tab loop for attaching a lanyard which is shown as being at the top right corner in many pictures of this product does not actually exist, at least not on all/most units of this model.

#2) The "Green" part of this product is just a removable soft rubber sleeve. The unit itself is black.

Ordered crossover in January and while entering waypoints it locked up. Sent back to the GPS store for an exchange. Just went on trip from Boise Id to Las Vegas and the new unit locked up and kept returning to the Blue Screen. Contacted Magellan and they said a software update would fix it. Downloaded update last night and it appears it fixed the problem. Will see. I was ready to try to exhange it for a different unit but Magellan said this would work-Hopefully we will see. The tech support guy I talked to was difficult to talk to. He sounded like he was revved up on Red Bull and took forever to get him on the line. Tech support sucks. To use the topo and marine functions you have to buy memory cards loaded with the program at $200 a pop. That really sucks to have to buy cards at that price. Half that I could swallow. Further use, more money spent on sd cards will tell if it performs as expected. So far skeptical.

This product works great as a turn by turn GPS. I also love it for walking and tracking in the parks. I have not used the marine part yet, but I am sure it will be great also. I would recommend this product.

I've had a magellan map 330 for forever, and I wanted a color screen, a gps that stayed on the road (not 100 feet or more off the road)and annouced directions. I've used the magellans in rental cars, and was happy with their capabilty. The crossver meets my expectations, and its great to have all the maps as part of the cost. I am planning to buy the enhanced topo maps, because I use the unit for hiking as well. About 8 hours of battery time. My only issue is why do I need a gps to play music or show pictures. Magellan stick to what you know.

This is a good product for the money. It is the only one on the market that does both driving and Hiking/ Geocaching both in the same unit. It is also the only combo unit that is splash resistant. NOT WATER PROOF!!! IPX4 is splash resistant up to so many liters/ minute. Better than a unit that would zap out even if damp!!! Easy to read screens with multiple color options for maps. Very nice automatic night viewing option that changes the screen to a 'negative' light. Very clear voice turn-by-turn directions. Very fast rerouting when you go off course. Great functions for steering around traffic.
The unit does have some negatives. Fisrt, Magellan put this stupid sticker on the GPS screen to 'simulate' the screen while in the package. The sticker left the sticky residue all over the screen. Alcohol and a soft cloth took it off, but why do something like that Magellan? Also, the mapset is OLD. I could not find my work location via the search. The road is not on the map and the address is not in the database. Granted, my work developement is newer (2000). The map data NAVTEQ (mapset provider) has on their website HAS the road. Magellan does not have a map update from NAVTEQ on the support site. The POI's are also old. A lot of gas stations I pass are not on the map. Restaurant icons are in places there are no restaurants. I had one instance that the GPS was WAY off, which required a restart to get my 'vehicle icon' back on track. One thing Magellan doesn't tell you is that the installed Topo map only goes to 300 feet detail level and in order to get detailed Topo maps (with rivers and greater detail), you have to purchase separate software from Magellan. A bit misleading if you ask me.
Overall, I'm happy with the unit. Hopefully, Magellan gets on the ball with a mapset update. I already have an email into them. Anyone looking for a nice GPS unit with features that others charge an extra $100 plus for, this is the one!

So far I've found this to be a nice unit. I don't know why the last reviewer said there are no maps, the built in street maps are very accurate even out here in the middle of nowhere where I live. The topo map is very detailed and includes roads that I would better describe as cow trails. Magellan will supposedly release more detailed topo's soon.

I am disappointed in the computer support. The only computer support is the POI generator and you can only generate POI's from Lat/Lon coordinates. This is very weak, I should be able to create POI's by typing in a name and an address. I should also be able to manage my address book and create trip plans on the computer and download them to the unit. Music and pictures? I have much better electronics to do that.

I have had the unit for about three days and have experienced one lockup that required me to power off and restart it. I have also encountered one software bug. DON'T zoom the topo map out as far as it will go. Apparently a programmer forgot to check an upper limit and the unit will lock up, restart and then will lock up and restart every time you try to view the topo map again. I have had little to no response from tech support yet on this issue, but was able to fix it myself by searching for a POI, selecting one and then viewing it on the map. This caused the map to rezoom back in to the minimum and it's been OK since.

Overall, I have found this unit to be well built and programmed. There are some improvements that can be made and I will be looking forward to firmware upgrades in the near future.

ALSO, the technical details on the Amazon page are in error. The unit DOES include both the AC and car adapter. So you DON'T need to purchase additional power adapters like I did.

I'd recommend waiting 6 months to see if Magellan produces Topo Maps and map updates. There are nice features, but without maps it is just a paper weight.
The unit works fine. I wish it had better computer support. Planning trips of any distance on the computer is much easier. The unit works good around town, but cross country is weak.
The real weakness is a lack of map/software support. If you want to go fishing you're in good shape, but the system Topo map is too small scale to be useful and the good Topo maps do not exist. POI's are so out of date the day the software is published that it is a shot in dark (reality for any unit), but I like the ability to add my own points, but again computer map support would make this unit much more useful. POI's need to be updated on a regular basis. If Magellan wanted to improve their offerings POI updates on a 6 month cycle would be good, and annual map updates for 10 years on any unit would go a long way to fixing their problems. The updates do not have to be free, $100.00 per year to be able to find things certainly works for me.
The great electronics highlight the lack of software and maps. So if you like weird green paper weights, this unit is the right one for you.



It has gotten me to where I wanted or needed to go. That said, however, I've had one main difficulty. It has locked up on me several times now. This has happened when I was programming the unit, and/or when I had just turned on the unit. It has not locked up on me during a trip. I turned the unit off and then back on, only for it to do it again and again. I discovered that you have to move the reset switch to off, and then back to on. That seems to do it. If you were actively tracking something (using the outdoor topo features) at the time that it locked up, you will lose your trip information (speed, length of trip, time of trip). Of course, having a brand new unit lock up is not acceptable. When it doesn't lock up, it gets me to my destination. If you drive off the course it tells you 'calculating route' almost immediately and tells you what to do next. POI's (points of interest): I don't know where they get the data for these, but some of it is really old. The first place I told it to find me was my local gas stations. The first one on the list is one that's been closed and long gone for a minimum of 10 years. A brewpub it took me to had changed owners and names over a year-and-a-half ago, although it got me to the address where it was!

This is my first GPS and it's 'fun'. And, it's very intuitive. I was able to figure out most everything without having to get to reading or checking out the manual. That's really good in my book, because I'm a 'manual reader'. The voice is female and pretty easy to hear (vehicle navigation only has the voice). It has a headphones jack which I connected to the 'aux in' of my audio system in the car, and so get the voice through the car speakers.

I still much prefer printed maps to a GPS. But, there's a lot to be said for a device that's your navigator, when you are driving somewhere alone. If it didn't have the locking up problem, I'd rate it 4 stars. And, if the POI's were more current (I don't know if they ever even upgrade/revise these), I'd rate it 5 stars.

I am still learning all the features of this unit, but everything I have done so far works flawlessly. I have been able to chart our local address, add friends and family, and even put in the lat/long location for our lake house to guide me late at night on the water. I have not tried the music player or picture viewer yet, but I already have gadgets for that. This thing seems to be able to find its location quickly, and keeps track of every move I make. One drawback is that it appears to prefer large interstate highways, so when asked to give the shortest time or distance to a point of interest, it seems to prefer to stay on the big roads. Looking forward to using it this summer to hike and go boating.