Magellan RoadMate GPS Navigation
 
Manufacturer: Magellan
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List Price: $299.99
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Product Description

The Magellan RoadMate 1412 is pocket-sized, ultra-thin, and stylish, and features an extra large 4.3-inch wide-format, full color interactive touchscreen. The expanded Points of Interest database offers 6 million built-in destinations for an incredible value. Find fuel, food, lodging, ATMs and hundreds of other businesses and services with a few touches of the screen. Plus, it includes built-in maps of the entire United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada.

Clear 4.3-inch WQVGA touchscreen shows your position, POIs, route, ETA and more on the interactive map

Use the intuitive menu options to pick your destination and choose how you navigate to virtually anywhere. If you want to stay on the freeway, avoid freeways, travel the shortest distance or arrive in the quickest time, your Magellan RoadMate enables you to navigate the way you want. You can even exclude specific roads or freeways from your route and also avoid toll roads.

SayWhere text-to-speech tells you street names with every turn-by-turn direction.

The advanced QuickSpell feature intelligently searches addresses and Points of Interest, offering you a simple list of available locations. It even checks spelling so you can enter a destination with just a few touches of the screen.

SmartDetour prompts you to route around sudden slow or stopped freeway traffic and automatically re-calculates the fastest detour.

The integrated rechargeable battery offers navigation for up to three hours. Search destinations, plan trips and enter addresses and personal Points of Interest from a meeting place, restaurant or anywhere power is unavailable.

Innovative easy-to-use interface makes it a breeze to find the route to your destination in seconds--without even needing to read the instructions.
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Adjustable mount for your windshield or dashboard.

Key Features Include

  • Large wide-format color 4.3-inch WQVGA touchscreen shows your position on the map, route, destination, ETA, surrounding Points of Interest, signal strength, next maneuver, street names and more at a glance.
  • 6 million Points of Interest: Easily find what you need. Gas stations, restaurants, hotels, ATMs and hundreds of other businesses and services are intuitively categorized and searchable from the built-in POI database. Most include the phone number.
  • Expanded NAVTEQ maps let you Travel the entire U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada with all the maps you need, pre-loaded on the included SD memory card.
  • SayWhere text-to-speech lets you hear street names with every voice direction and have a clear understanding of when to make the next turn while you keep your eyes on the road.
  • Bold, intuitive menu options make it easy to pick destinations and choose how you navigate, without even reading the instructions.
  • Uniquely stylish and compact, it's easy to transfer your Magellan GPS between vehicles or toss it in a suitcase to take anywhere.
  • Select the types of services and amenities you'd like to see and interactive POI icons appear on the map. Touch an icon for a nearby service to see address, phone number (when available) and get an instant route.
  • Program any location into the "Home" button and find your way back from wherever you are.
  • Enter destinations with a few keystrokes. QuickSpell searches locations and checks spelling to provide you with a simple list of available destinations.
  • SmartDetour prompts you to route around suddenly slow or stopped freeway traffic and automatically calculates the quickest detour. No fee or subscription is required.
  • Clearly see your surroundings in 2D or 3D with Birds eye 3D view.
  • Never miss a turn with Auto re-route and quickly get back on track whenever you take a detour.
  • Auto NightView controls color and contrast adjusting automatically for easy viewing at night.
  • Choose the way you want to navigate to use the most freeways, least freeways, fastest time, shortest distance and avoid toll roads. Exclude specific streets or freeways after a route is calculated to get there the way you want.
  • Multi-destination routing: Select up to 20 destinations and choose the order to plan a trip in advance and repeat the same trip again. Easily reorganize, add or remove destinations.
  • Create and save personal Points of Interest for easy reoccurring trips.
  • Navigate up to 3 hours when power is unavailable with its rechargeable battery:
  • The Centrality Atlas III processor with integrated GPS receiver provides superior GPS performance for accurate and reliable positioning and navigation within three meters.

What's in the Box
Magellan RoadMate 1412 4.3-inch widescreen portable GPS navigator, adhesive disk for dash mounting, basic cradle, swivel mount, vehicle power adapter (12-24 watts), quick reference guide and CD, alcohol pad

Product Details

  • 4.3-inch WQVGA, full-color, anti-glare, touchscreen display
  • 6 million searchable points of interest: Customers can easily search for restaurants, hotels, airports, gas stations, and more.
  • SayWhere: Text-to-speech tells drivers the street name of their next turn.
  • Widescreen, ultra-thin form factor with the functionality and navigation features that GPS consumers expect
  • SmartDetour: Prompts drivers to route around heavy or stopped freeway traffic

Customer Reviews

For $150 it's well worth the money
 
Review Date: June 10, 2008
Reviewer: B. nguyen, Anaheim, CA United States
Pros:
4.3 screen, slim design, good build quality, nice screen, nice graphics, text-to-speech works well, acquire signal fast, uses Navteq map and routing works the way you would expect if you didn't have a GPS and had to map the route yoursself, no round-around routing, has 4 routing options, fastest, shortest, maximum freeway, minimum freeway, a compass is built-in and shown in the upper left corner, plenty of POIs, 6 million of them, good quality windshield mount

This model locks in signal EXTREMELY FAST and it works indoors too



The first time you use you may notice some screen sluggishness but after that it's very responsive, my take is that it might have to do with some kind of first-time initialization

Cons:
No home AC adapter, only car adapter, windshield mount arm is a little short, a bit heavier than most other GPS but probably due to the case but this should not be viewed as a negative


I picked this up at Costco with a $50 off coupon and at $150 this is one of the few GPS on the market that offer text-to-speech, Navteq map and 6 mil POIs. This model uses the Centrality Atlas III GPS chipset which is considered to be even better than the SIRF III chipset
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Magellan RoadMate GPS Navigation
 
Manufacturer: Magellan
Customer Rating:
 
List Price: $299.99
Sale Price: $145.31
Availibility: Usually ships in 24 hours
Free Shipping Available
Buy Now
 
 

With the Magellan Roadmate GPS Navigation System you are bond to find some of the most difficult situations around town or in a trip to be extremely easy. Nothing will be that hard to find or hard to get to if you are using this device, and anything else that is not guided by this GPS system will seem like a major hassle.

This device has a built=in touchscreen display that is 3.5 inches wide. Its full color scheme and real time activity will make your routes and cruises feel much more like a vivid and life like situation. The Magellan Roadmate GPS Navigation System will give you the opportunity to enjoy your trip like never before while you know that you are in the right hands. The multi-destination option in this instrument's routing will give you the possibility to obtain more for what you paid for when you purchased this item. All the trouble that this system will save you will be paid off.

The great features present in this waterproof and SD card compatible Magellan Roadmate GPS Navigation System are rarely matched by any other software or device available out there. The lightweight and feather like qualities present in this instrument are specially important if you would like to keep this precious tool with you the entire time. The voice guidance will give your real time directions an extra sense of security for you will never be lost without a friendly voice to guide you through.

Since this is a system based on safety and efficiency first, you will be backed up by the on screen mapping and voice directions that will match the map and arrowing system it delivers so the driver can focus on what's important: driving. Its performance is proved to be one of the best if compared to all the GPS systems available in the market and its fully equipped software will make this one of everybody's all time favorite devices.