Magellan RoadMate 1400 4.3-Inch GPS Navigator (Factory Refurbished)
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MAGELLAN Roadmate 1400 Refurbished 4.3 in GPS Navigator. The Magellan RoadMate 1400 is uniquely stylish, with a 4.3 in wide-format, full color interactive touch screen and an ultra-thin design. Use the intuitive menu options to pick your destination and choose how you navigate to virtually anywhere. Whether you want to stay on freeways, 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. Built-in maps of the continental U.S., Hawaii and Puerto Rico, plus 1.3 million pre-programmed Points of Interest make it easy to travel the country and easily find gas stations, ATMs, hotels and much more. 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 suddenly 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. The large wide-format color touch screen shows your position on the map, route, destination, ETA, nearby Points of Interest, signal strength, next maneuver, street names and more at a glance. Turn-by-turn voice guidance saves time getting directions before leaving the house and enables you to 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.
Features
- 4.3 in GPS Navigator
- 1.3 Million Searchable Points of Interest
- NAVTEQ On Board
- Wide-screen / ultra-thin form factor
- Turn-by-turn voice guidance
- Dimensions (W x H x L): 1 x 3 x 5 inches
- Weight: 0 pounds
Good GPS
This unit does a great job for the money, and is easy to use, although I wish it could be programed from my computer for trips and such. But for the money I believe it can not be beat.
Product good
Good product but could not have much more address choices over all I can recomand this product which is in affordble price.
Fantastic price for a great item.
Received first one, it was inoperable. Amazon immediately sent a replacement, trusting that I would ship the other back. Received replacement within three days and it worked fine! They turned a possible bad experience into a very good one.
Does not respond after one trip
I bought this unit so I have a GPS when I’m on the road using rental trucks or rental cars. The unit is basic but it guided me to the target on the first trip. Half a year later, I rented another truck and the unit booted up but the screen does not respond. I did hard resets but no change. There is also NO SUPPORT for Macs. You need to have a PC to update the unit. If you use Parallels, you might have a chance. For the next GPS, I would choose a Garmin as they support Apple computers.
What is text to speech?
This works OK but was bought because of its “text to speech” feature as advertised. It does not appear to have this feature as it works just about like my old Tom Tom One.
Very good unit
The unit works as advertised. I was looking for a unit that would tell me how to get to my destination. I didn’t and don’t want all the bells and whistles the newest models offer.
Magellan RoadMate 1400
The product is easy to use. It was shipped to me on a timely basis. It is a refurbished model that works very well.
GEN REVIEW
recieved, tried to get gps info, no gps signal was ever found. sent back the product. I was very disappointed and affraid to buy another magellan.
Wicked-good bargain
This GPS unit has worked perfectly from the first moment, and the functions are so intuitive we almost don’t need the instruction manual. (Ladies won’t understand, but that scores high with us guys!)
Although the description on Amazon’s site says “…with Text-to-Speech,” it really doesn’t have that function. It announces upcoming turns very nicely, but it does not attempt to pronounce text we enter. -Which may be a good thing. It displays the name of the next street or highway very prominently, so who needs the electronic lady talking ALL the time?
In open country, it acquires satellites and begins navigating very quickly. (Much faster than on the H-60 Blackhawk I used to fly.) We live in a heavily-wooded area, and it takes a few seconds longer, -maybe as much as one minute some days.
I especially enjoy the display gotten to by tapping the compass heading in the upper-left corner of the map. It produces a screen indicating lat-long, distance to next significant waypoint, distance to last waypoint, elevation, ground speed, location (road, town, and ZIP code,) super-accurate time and date, and a rudimentary compass that indicates heading changes as small as 5 or 10 degrees.
Audio is loud enough that we don’t set it to max. Screen lighting is very good, and we love the night-display function.
On a recent trip into strange territory, it helped us find business and residence addresses flawlessly. We were short on time, and it essentially saved the day.
Great Price. Good Quailty
Good price. Work very well.
Do not expect any fancy GPS.
This one has only one kind of voice, 2 types of map view.
However, it gives you all the information you need to find the location.
If you want really fancy/famous company’s GPS with price under $100, you are looking at the wrong model.
This is a very simple GPS with very good price.
Best gps for under a 100
Pros
# Good routing engine
- Good clear speech voice quality, loud speaker
- Ability to use Zip codes when entering addresses or searching for POIs
- Supports multi-destination routing
-Four different routing methods to choose from: Fastest Time, Shortest Distance, Least Use of Freeways, Most Use of Freeways
-Where am i? feature provides one-click viewing of your current location
- Ability to exclude specific roads from the route
-QuickSpell text entry system makes typing addresses fast and easy
-Exit POIs feature lets you see what restaurants, gas stations and hotels, if any, are available at each highway exit
- after you search for and spell out a POI, it pulls up list of different POIs fast
Cons
- map is kind of ugly looking
- Can’t incorporate traffic problems in route and then give detour options
-No QuickSpell feature for POI searches
- miss a free way exit it will want you to exit then go back on in other direction then get off and back on causing a long detour in miles and time
- miss a turn and the recalculate feature will sometimes want a u turn when maybe it wasn’t necessary
junk
Bought unit for this trip we are on. The unit didn’t work out of the box. Ordered on 7-5 rec’d 7-7 (Great), rec’d RMA on 7-10 and sent via Fed Ex on the 10th to their repair station in TN. The repair station rec’d on the 16th. WE STILL HAVEN’T REC’D IT!! Called them 2 times and they promised (in-as-much as ours was non-repairable) they would send us a new one, and it would arrive before we left on our trip. STILL WAITING!. Of course it doesn’t matter much because we are on the trip that we wanted it for.
Great Value
I got this as a second unit/backup for the Navigon 7200T 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigation with Bluetooth, Text-to-Speech, and Free Traffic Alerts.
These are my first 2 portable car GPS units (the others were OEM in-dash units for the Infinity G35 coupe and Acura MDX), so my experience to these are new.
So the review will be more of a comparison.
THE GOOD
-It’s a lot more tactile and responsive to the touch than the Navigon, which maybe with its extra bells and whistles responded slower after an input. You don’t have to press hard on the Magellan’s screen, which is really useful for inputing certain things on the move.
-The speaker is VERY LOUD, which is great. Beats the Navigon hands down.
-The map screen is not as cluttered as the Navigon’s. You can also zoom in and out which is good if you want to see more of your surrounding.
THE BAD
-Map screen is not as detailed or nice as the Navigon. It’s quite boring to look at it. Let’s face it – this is a bare bones model.
-There is no text-to-speech, so street names and freeways/highways are not pronounced, just generic terms and directions. The Navigon is AWESOME in pronouncing the right names. If you live in/travel to places with not so common names, or even English names, you will really appreciate this feature.
THE UGLY
-Yup, it’s pretty ugly, not as sleek looking or slim as the Navigon.
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PS- the refurbished model looked almost as new, not a scratch or blemish anywhere. You can only tell it’s refurbished because of the box/packaging.
This review was done only after a couple days of trying out the Magellan, so maybe I’ll do a follow-up soon!