Magellan Maestro 3140 Car GPS Receiver

I have used the Magellan Maestro 3140 as well as the TomTom One and can definitely tell you that the 3140 is worth the extra money you pay for it.

For beginner's, it has Text-to-Speech which means that it tells you to turn left on Elm Street v/s. saying turn left in 200 yards (TomTom). To TomTom's credit, it makes it almost impossible for you to miss the turn by constantly saying "Turn left in 200 yards", "Turn left in 100 yards", "Turn left NOW"...but I found that a little irritating - instead the 3140 will say turn left on Elm Street and give a chime a few seconds before to let you know that the turn is here.

Second thing is the POI's - it has 4million as opposed to TomTom's 1 million. I know both sound a lot, but the difference is that the 3140 has 4 times as much information on the restaurants, groceries etc. I found Magellan had even the newer places already in their database too. Also, the PlacesOFInterest (POI) dtabase is organized - for example under restaurants, you can then choose cuisine type ie Thai etc.

The final killer is the fact that it has AAA guidebooks incorporated in there - so no more lugging extra books with you.

All in all, this is a great buy.