Magellan Roadmate 800 4 3 Inch Navigator

The new Magellan RoadMate 1470 4.7-Inch GPS navigator sports a new sleek design. Compared to it is predecessors (and models from other brands), it now has a bigger, 4.7-inch screen. Despite the increase in screen size, this new model is thinner and lighter (weighing at just 2 pounds and measuring at just 0.7 inch). Whether it is a camera, a GPS device or even a watch, I am always a fan of huge displays. The 4.7 inch displays clear graphics that may be effortlessly viewed even under bright sunlight. The user interface has be bettered to include more spectacular user icons. I have always preferent the Magellan navigators over Garmin and Tom Tom navigators because of it is superb navigation system. On the Magellan RoadMate 1470 4.7-Inch GPS navigator, you may always see the direction of the next turn no matter how far away it is. When you approach a turning, you will listen a distinct 'ding dong' sound to remind you of the turning. It likewise offer four navigation options. You may choose to take the fastest, shortest, freeway-intensive or least employed routes to get to your destination. One of the new features found on this model is it is lane guidance system, that helps you stay on the right lane so that you would not miss a turning or without intention make the faulty exit. It comes preloaded with road maps of the US, Canada and Puerto Rico. With over 6 million points of interest, you may without apparent effort find your way to any destination within the country. Most of the points of interest preloaded includes the phone number of that establishment, which may be very handy at times. All in all, the Magellan RoadMate 1470 4.7-Inch GPS navigator is a sleek, no frills and exceedingly effective navigator. If you are looking for a device that has a reasonable price tag, without all the unnecessary bells and whistles, this is the perfective model for you. It's time to in truth get in the driver's seat with a new generation of vehicle navigation gadgets from Magellan. With a large, 3.5-inch color touch screen and buttons for one-touch access to key features, the Magellan RoadMate 3000T is intelligently designed to make GPS navigation posing no difficulty than ever. Enter an address and get turn-by-turn voice guidance, while the built-in dynamic map shows your location, destination and route in established or "birds-eye" 3D for a clear view of your surroundings. Touch an on-screen icon for selective information regarding nearby services and get routed there instantly. Magellan's SmartDetour technology routes you around stopped freeway traffic. And because the 3000T is traffic-ready, you may merely add the Magellan TrafficKit to get live traffic incident reports. Plus, the unit features a built-in music player, photo viewer and rechargeable battery so you may take your amusement on the road. Design The 3000T features a sleek and compact design for optimal portability. A huge touch screen and buttons offer access to key features and the universal configuration gives having little impact access to buttons whether you're right or left handed. The unit tracks up to 12 GPS satellites simultaneously and uses the high performance SiRF Star III solution for optimal signal acquisition. It's likewise WAAS enabled, further heightening positioning accuracy. Lightweight and altogether portable, the 3000T is without apparent effort transposed from one vehicle to another, so you may take it with you wherever you go. The built-in rechargeable battery lets you proceed routing or listen to music or view pictures when unplugged, and it is compact size and light weight enable you to effortlessly take it with you on business trips or vacations. Vehicle installation couldn't be easier; choose from a selection of mounting accessories, plug in the power cord, and you are ready to turn it on and go When you're traveling at night you'll be grateful for that the displayed map background color switches to night view at sundown, and back to day view in the morning. Another function, SmartVolume, mechanically increments the unit's volume at speeds over 45 MPH so voice and audio prompts are always at the right level for greatest or most complete or best possible clarity. Navigation Easy-to-use guidance screens Navigation with the 3000T starts with the unit's super bright, high-resolution display screen with bold and easy-to read icons and text. Your route is distinctly highlighted, and you may zoom in or out on a elaborated map. Touch the 3D map icon anytime to switch amongst a three-dimensional representation that gives a bird's-eye view of the road in front and the more conventional 2D map view. Plus, you may select from nine dissimilar color compoundings to personalize your view. The Maneuver List gives you a elaborated list of streets and turns; touch a street on the list to exclude it from your route and instantaneously calculate a new route. Meanwhile, the TrueView 3D function offers a detailed, enlarged view of the road layout for upcoming turns and info when it comes to intersection maneuvers. Dynamic turn-by-turn voice guidance tells you when to make the next turn, while an automatic map zooms in to show your highlighted turn and switches to TrueView 3D so you may affirm the direction at a glance. Route optimization is a breeze with the 3000T. Let the unit guide you on an optimized trip with various destinations. First, use the Trip Planner to enter addresses or select points of interest (POI). You choose the order or let Route Optimization feature calculate the quickest route amidst each point from your present location. Add and subtract destinations as you go, and save your Trip to repeat the same route again. When traffic slows or stops on the freeway, SmartDetour will mechanically calculate a detour and ask you if you'd like to route around the congestion. You may turn the feature on and off, or personalize the settings for the greatest or most complete or best possible distance you'd like to detour. You may likewise choose to detour anytime by touching the enter button while you are in an active route, even on city streets to route around road work, closed roads, flooded streets or stopped traffic. Whenever you determine to take a detour or go off course, your Magellan RoadMate mechanically calculates a new route as you drive. Add the Magellan TrafficKit to receive live traffic incident reports that appear on the dynamic touch screen map. Touch an onscreen icon to view elaborate info with regards to the incident. You may likewise mechanically reroute around accidents, slow-downs, road work, severe weather conditions and more. The TrafficKit service will be available in the Summer of 2006 and it will require a subscription. And last but not least, a touch of a button shows the info in regards to your present emplacement so you may effortlessly direct emergency services and roadside assistance to you. Or, save this emplacement to your address book to without apparent effort route back to it later. Maps and POIs Built-in, elaborate maps of the 50 United States, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and Canada enable you to travel the country with no need to download new data. A single seamless database built in to the hard drive holds all major city streets as well as federal, state, and region roads and highways. Detailed maps of 27 European countries are also pre-loaded and may be unlocked for a fee. An easy-to-use database of over six million POIs includes addresses and even phone numbers, in most cases, for businesses, services, parks, lakes, airports and more. It's simple to find the nearest restaurants, gas stations, ATMs, and more, wherever you travel. A simple touch-screen menu makes it easy to choose a emplacement by category or sub-category. So if you want to find the nearest Chinese restaurant, just touch the screen. You may also store up to 200 personal or business destinations. QuickSpell intelligently sorts, searches, and checks spelling for rapid address entry with minimal keystrokes, accelerating your info entry by sameness letters to the available destinations. Entertainment The 3000T make sit easy to take the fun with you wherever you go. Magellan RoadMate Manager Tools software enables you to effortlessly transfer your MP3 and WMA files from your computer to a memory card (SD or MMC) that may be inserted into your Magellan RoadMate 3000T for hours of music entertainment. You may likewise transfer your favored photos from your PC onto memory card using the Magellan RoadMate Tools application and view them on the full-color display. Magellan Roadmate 800 4 3 Inch Navigator Photo Magellan Roadmate 800 4 3 Inch Navigator Pic Magellan Roadmate 800 4 3 Inch Navigator Image Magellan Roadmate 800 4 3 Inch Navigator Photo Magellan Roadmate 800 4 3 Inch Navigator Image Magellan Roadmate 800 4 3 Inch Navigator Picture

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59 of 59 people found the following review helpful.
With current firmware update this unit works well
By Eric D
See update at end of this posting.

I purchased this unit, the Magellan RoadMate 3050T, which is the 3000T, but with the receiver for Traffic-enabled info. For what I paid for this unit and the features it has, I believe it to be a very good deal.

The windshield suction cup mount works ok, but I wish it was a little stiffer. On bumpy roads the GPS may bounce up and down a little. With the unit mounted, the primary time I tried to power it up I thought I got a bum unit. You have to hold the power on button for up to 15 seconds the firstborn time, regarding 3 seconds after the initial to have it spring to life. I think Magellan ought to state this right on the plastic shelter sheet they have on the face of the unit. It would have saved me galore startup anxiety.

Once I got it working it zeroed in on the satellites very quickly. In the windshield mount, the gps maintains an splendid signal. In fact, much better then my Garmin Maps 76S. Even with heavy over cast and in tree cover I have full signal bars on the upper right of the display.

Speaking display, this unit is very bright, even in full sun. In fact, at night, with the luminance turned all the way down, it is a little more glorious then I in truth like.

The display makes use of a lot of icons. I had to breakout the manual to figure what a heap of of them meant.

I am a stickler for wanting to recognise what direction I'm traveling. I planned to buy the Garmin Streetpilot C550. I changed my mind after finding the Garmin does not display the normal compass heading on the main map display. The Magellan 3000T displays the heading full time in the map mode in the lower left corner. It uses the N, NE, E, SE, SW, W, NW headings.

A very good sounding lady gives voice directions. It is very clear, and volume level is likewise very good. This unit does not have the "text to speech". However, after using the Magellan 3000T, I in truth don't care that it doesn't speak the road name. What it will do is tell you when a turn is coming up and which direction you will need to turn and on the display it gives you the name of the street. The directions are clear and understandable leaving no doubt what you need to do. The maps are from Navteq. I feel Navteq is the best out there.

Update speed of this unit is very good. The display refreshes quickly and I never feel it is lagging behind. The route calculator waste no time as well. Most route calculations take less then 5 seconds to complete.

With the TrafficKit, this gps may find you a way around most traffic flow issues like slowdowns, accidents, construction, and other reasons. Around the metro Detroit area it seems to work pretty well. However, on a trip up north, it didn't work as well. I believe this to be more of an issue with the service provider then a problem with the gps. I'm sure with time this will improve. One detour it took me on saved us over an hour in stop and go traffic with just a few miles added to the distance. For one year of service it cost regarding $60. I don't like how the TrafficKit attaches to the gps. The cables end up going all over the place and the antenna for the receiver is long. Seems they could have come up with a better design. I ended up leave the antenna lying on the dash. It just looks messy.

The software that comes with the unit seems a little lame to me. You in truth can't do much with it. I wanted to be capable to download the trip computer to my laptop. I have not found a way to do this. I'll be calling tech help to see if I'm missing something.

I have not tried the mp3 player or picture functions as I actually don't care to have pictures on the unit. I'll undertake the mp3 in the near future.

For me, this unit is a keeper.

Pros: Easy to see, easy to use once I learned the system, pleasant command voice, easy to remove and install into it is mount,you have a choice of using the touch screen or navigation buttons.

Cons: Power-on mixing up the firstborn time I employed it, trafic receiver attachment messy, I had to upgrade the firmware to fetch it up to date, it corrects early version lockups reported in galore of the early reviews.(no big deal to update)

Update as of 12-20-06

Cons and Pro addition to date: Can't use the MP3 player at the same time as navigating. POI database is defective for southern Florida areas. Items in the database not where the gps shows they are in the state of Florida. POI very good for Michigan. All in all I still like this unit and find it as good or better then other brands in the same price range on the market.

43 of 43 persons found the following review helpful.
great value unit
By S. Mulkey
Main reason that I purchased this GPS is that it comes with the Sirf III chip. This is the most recent GPS chip on the market and it makes it alot more comfortable to get reception, even in a crowded city. The hype is true, because I am even competent to get reception inside my home. This is one of the cheepest units out there from the major GPS companies (Garmin, Magellan, tomtom) that has this chip.

I just got this unit today but felt I had to comment given that some of the negative reviews on this unit seem to be for stupid reasons. The interface is easy to understand, the screen was the brightest of all the others that I saw in the store, and while bulkier that the Garmin Nuvi, it still fits in my purse and costs significantly less. I likewise considered the Roadmate 2000, but it has less points of interests loaded on it. If that isn't important to you though, it is worth taking into account as it is for less and littler than the 3000. Neither of them have text to speech (aka "say where") which enables the device to say the name of the street rather of just where to turn. I think that would be a nice feature, but you unquestionably recompense extra for a model that has it, and I've heard that the naming may be pretty unintelligble at times on appliances that have this feature. I modified the firmware on the magellan internetsite and it was very easy to do.

I did have one routing error today, but that is due to mapping software, not the unit. I think that the same thing would have happened on any GPS unit. It would be nice if an AC adaptor came with the unit in addition to the vehicle adaptor. The windshield mount that came with the unit is dissimilar from the one pictured in the manual/quick begin guide. If this happens to you, you will have to recognise that the middle of the mount bends. I didn't grasp this at firstborn and the darn unit was pointing downward rather of perpendicular to the dash.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
No magic, but a very good car GPS
By Paul B
I have read a great deal of client reviews before buying this GPS. Now I see that a lot of things cited by the reviewers differ from my personal experience. Here is what I have noticed so far:
1. Maps: appear to be rather accurate. As of this writing, I did not experience any troubles with the maps. I doubt that paper maps would be more accurate, or modified more frequently.
2. Updates: I have lately downloaded and installed version 3.11, and had no difficultnesses for the duration of or after installation.
3. Battery: not great, but rather reasonable. After all, it is a car GPS, so most of the time it will be plugged in anyway. If you need an AC adapter, I suggest buying an AC to 12V converter instead. (This is what I have). It is more universal and may be used to power other units (coolers, car phone chargers, etc.) from an AC outlet.
4. Satellite reception and tracking: no complains here.
5. Menus and other UI: not one thing horrible. When you get used to it, it becomes comfortable.
6. Music player, photo viewer: IMO perfectly useless. (Same as Bluetooth, which is NOT build into this unit, and a good deal of people complain). Do you actually have no better way of playing your music or answering your phone calls? Then it's a pity. Honestly, I am not sure why did they even bother building all this functionality into a car GPS unit. Still, it works, and it is not unfeigned that you need proprietary software or a exceptionally formatted SD cards for it. I applied Windows explorer and a ordinary SD card to copy MP3 files from my laptop and play it on my GPS (no Magellan software).
Summary: good GPS unit, specially for the price (I got mine for under $300). If you need a navigation computer, consider buying a GPS antenna for your laptop, and then carry it with you all the time . For me, it is sufficient not to get lost in an unknown city, and at long last get where I wanted to be. Plus, it is rather cool to recognise how far are you from the destination, and how long it will take you to get there, even if you know the route by heart.

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