The Magellan 4040 is a portable GPS device with a 4.3" display with bluetooth functions. Magellan's Maestro 4040 is Magellan's first widescreen GPS and is the predecessor to the voice-controlled Magellan Maestro 4050.CNET: Magellan Maestro Review The 4040 comes with a stylus and has numerous features and ways to search for directions. For example, you can either get directions by a mapquest-esque sort of process, through entering in a start point and destination, or by equipping in by only entering a destination, and it will lead you to it. The 4040 can be equipped with many different programs, such as Mio Map and others.
Magellan Maestro 4040 Features
The Magellan Maestro 4040 comes equipped with a slew of features that are both helpful and rather entertaining at times, especially for the new buyer. These include turn-by-turn voice and visual guidance, precision navigation, integrated AAA TourBook travel information, hands free phone calls, traffic enabled, voice command enabled, multi-destination routing. Smart Detour, Auto Re-route and more. There are additional features that you can add to the 4040 as you see fit, as well as add for fun WHEN YOU ARE NOT DRIVING. Unless of course, it's a music feature or something of that nature.
Accesssories
This GPS system has many accessories that are available to you at many electronics stores or online. Some of the accessories offered for the system are leather cases, a number of different cradles for car mounting, and even more than those alone. Generally speaking, the accessories for the 4040 will run you anywhere from about ten dollars to about sixty, depending on the product and how recently the product has come out. You can sometimes find items on sale or clearance, but you'll have to monitor that accordingly.
