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96 of 100 persons found the following review helpful.
Best Portable Automobile GPS on the Market
By H. Edward Ferguson
I have had the Magellan 6000T now for 2 months and I can't imagine journeying without it. I have traveled for 19 years and made more U-turns than I may shake a stick at.
This scheme has it all... Blue tooth, spoken street names, easy to navigate touch screen, exceedingly bright screen (automatically darkens at dusk).
This scheme gives you more heads up when it comes to upcoming turns than any other system on the market. For instance, it will let you of a turn two miles ahead, then one mile, then 0.5 mile. Then it has a 0.2 mile yellow bar graph that shrinks as you come to your turn.
I am very glad I got this system with the spoken street names. It gives you that much more info while you are in unfamiliar territory. The street name voice is a dissimilar voice from the turn by turn voice. The street name voice has more of an edge which helps you listen having little impact to the street name.
It has locked up when it comes to 4 times (what high tech electronic gadget never locks up) but it was easy to reboot the system.
One of the best features is the traffic alert. I was in Charlotte, NC which I was unfamiliar with driving for the duration of rush hour to the other side of town for a meeting. After I left the hotel, it was directing me turn by turn to the Interstate. While sitting at a red light, I happened to detect it flash "I-85 accident" and then it recalculated the route. I couldn't believe it when I got to the interstate, it had brought me to the entrance ramp just in front of where all three lanes were blocked because of the wreck!!!!! I was very impressed!
It likewise gives you four choices for choosing your route which is twice as a great deal of as any other system.
I did a lot of exploration looking at the Garmin systems and Tom Tom. I printed out at least half a ream of paper of specifications and client comments. The more I looked at Magellan, the more I realized it was the best value. I'm sure Garmins are good and they will work, but the Magellan 6000T matched their most eminent priced Nuvi schemes feature for feature and was significantly cheaper.
It is effortlessly portable and without apparent effort attaches and detaches to the mount. In the rental cars, I may without apparent effort mount it on the windshield. I have never had a problem with the suction mount.
On my Chrysler 300 company car, I use the flat disk and mount the scheme on the dashboard with no problems.
I do not regret my buy at all.
If you travel, you need to seriously look at getting a portable GPS system. I would strongly commend the Magellan 6000T.
It will be analogous to life before and after a microwave.
42 of 43 persons found the following review helpful.
Excellent Device
By John G.
I not so long ago employed my new 6000T to find my way around LA/Orange County. I would still be attempting to escape from the swirling SoCal freeway labrinth back to the relative simplicity of San Francisco had I travelled without it. When I made the occasional error at multiple-choice freeway interchanges, it guided me back on route. It recalculated my route assorted times to stay clear from slow traffic -- very helpful in the LA basin where there are substitute freeway routes amongst most points and all of the freeways are monitored for traffic incidents and speed.
Some of the exceptionally utile features:
1. A straightforward, intuitive user interface.
2. Almost instantaneous route recalculation when the driver errs in following instructions or when slow traffic is detected.
3. A multi-mode map display that ordinarily manages to portray complex maneuvers clearly, e.g. a sequence of exits.
4. Repetitive voice prompts that permit full attention to the road when traffic is hectic.
5. Complete redundancy of controls amid the touchscreen and the peripheral control buttons -- very utile if the touchscreen becomes disabled (as may occur if you install the anti-glare protective screen available on the Magellan website).
What could be better:
1. The voice prompts seem to stop on occasion for no apparent reason.
2. The verbal and textual descriptions will have to correspond more almost to the text on freeway interchange and exit signage, in particular at the multiple-choice maneuvers.
3. The map isn't rather current -- recent major changes in San Francisco freeway access are not reflected.
A device like this makes driving complex freeway schemes with which one is unfamiliar much safer and more effective than paper maps studied and memorized in advance and supplemented with navigation notes or Mapquest directions, and the 6000T seems designed to maximize these benefits.
By supporting driver attention to traffic demands rather than navigational difficulties, this is an accessory that may save lives. Make sure your next vehicle has an electronic stability control system, and buy one of these.
Update as of 01/27/11 - I'm still using this GPS and I still like it, but not for much longer, I guess, as Magellan seems to have orphaned it: map updates are no longer available, though traffic subscription renewals are. Makes you wonder regarding those "lifetime" map and traffic options...
53 of 56 people found the following review helpful.
Not good sufficient for the price
By P. Graham
I started with handheld units a great deal of years ago, migrated to Streets and Trips and in the long run decisive to get a unit suitable for driving without a co-pilot. My initial unit was the garmin nuvi 350 but since it didn't aid routes or waypoints I swopped to the 6000T. I've been disappointed. The size, quality of the graphics, the voice and standard ease of use (ergonomics) are inferior to the nuvi (e.g. moving the map by dragging is efficaciously totally unlikely and painfully slow even when using the control pad). You need a devoted (Windows only) program to update the unit since it doesn't emulate a usb mass storage device. Although the screen isn't any more spectacular than the nuvi the unit is enormously larger and heavier. The screen luminance ranges from 100% to say 75%. Good in the daytime but right on the edge of too bright at night. The Bluetooth module in the long run paired with my phone but won't dial from the screen. The documentation is atrocious but that's typical.
My greatest complaint is the routing. The unit advertises routing with up to 20 waypoints (a multi-point route is called a "trip") but each waypoint is treated like a distinguished route and the unit stops routing and prompts you whether to proceed at each waypoint. Acceptable if you're stopping for a while but very annoying if you want to use the feature to give the unit hints with regards to places to avoid. Also since it treats each leg of a "trip" separately you don't get an overall time or distance estimate but even though it treats each leg separately you can't set person routing preferences.
By the way I consider picture viewers and mp3 players a waste of cash and resources in a gps unit.
I may get used to the 6000T but for this kind of cash one in truth shouldn't have to get employed to something.
I don't actually mean for this to sound like a rant but I'm astonished at the divergence in sensing your expected values will cause. I suppose I'm looking for something like a simplified version of Streets and Trips that costs less than a laptop and doesn't cost $100/year in map updates.
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