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My first holiday purchase this year is a Magellan Maestro 3200 Auto Navigation System. I will be traveling to Nashville the weekend of Thanksgiving and this should come in handy. It’s a great deal at under $170, a full $100 off retail. My new job will most likely require a significant amount of travel all over the country and this GPS unit should come in quite handy.

“Affordable, ultra-thin and amazingly easy to use, the Magellan Maestro 3200 enables you to find virtually anywhere in seconds without reading the instructions! The simple touch-screen menu presents easy options in brilliant color! The large 3.5″ touch screen shows your position on the interactive map, plus distance to the next turn, distance to destination, ETA, street names and more, all at a glance. Voice guidance offers worry-free driving with turn-by-turn directions so you can keep your eyes on the road. Easily find your way around town or from Florida to Washington with built-in maps of the 48 contiguous United States, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. 1.3 million pre-programmed Points of Interest (POI) enable you to search and select nearby services, and recreation and business locations. Find gas stations, restaurants, ATMs and more. Phone numbers are included (when available) so you can call ahead for information and reservations. The SiRFstarIII GPS receiver and built-in high-sensitivity antenna provide the fastest position acquisition in the industry for reliable navigation. QuickSpell intelligently searches and checks spelling so you can enter your destination with just few touches of the screen. SmartDetour prompts you to route around sudden slow freeway traffic. The integrated rechargeable battery provides cable-free navigation for up to three hours. Ultra-thin, pocket-sized, wireless and fully self-contained; take your Magellan Maestro anywhere for easy navigation! Auto night view - Adjusts color and contrast for easy night viewing SD-card compatibility - Back up your address book Digital music player - Listen to MP3 and WMA audio files from your own SD cards through the integrated speaker or standard headphone jack. “

While it doesn’t have all the bells and whistles like text to speech capability, it’s a couple hundred dollars cheaper than those models. The 3200 just came out in September, so it’s still relatively new itself and the unit is amazingly thin, less than an inch in fact.

So, purchase number one is down… I’m not quite sure how many more to go but I’ll keep you posted on the good deals I uncover along the way!

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