Magellan RoadMate 1400 4 3 Inch GPS Navigator with Text to Speech Factory Refurbished

Magellan RoadMate 1400 4 3 Inch GPS Navigator with Text to Speech Factory Refurbished

Full vehicle navigation that’s easy and affordable! Pick a destination and choose how you navigate to virtually anywhere in the continental U.S. and Hawaii. Featuring a 4.3″ wide color touch screen, intuitive menu options, and an ultra thin design.Simple to use and affordable4.3″ wide color touch screen1.3 million Points of InterestGet full turn-by-turn navigation at a breakthrough price!The Magellan RoadMate 1400 is uniquely stylish, with a 4.3″ 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. 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. 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 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.4.3″ WQVGA color touch screen: The large wide-format color touch screen shows your position on the map, route, destination, ETA, surrounding Points of Interest, signal strength, next maneuver, street names and more at a glance.Voice guidance: Turn-by-turn voice

User Ratings and Reviews

1 Star 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.

5 Stars 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.

4 Stars 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.

4 Stars Best gps for under a 100
Now Magellan has replaced the 2008 1400 model with a newer one. The newer one is not called the 1400 and is a 2009 model. I paid $75 and got it factory refurbished. New was $150 and mine works great. You can research online what it can do. I will only go over the negatives which are the most import thing to cover after you research the positives for any device.

1. Lets say you know a road is under construction and should be avoided. You can exclude any road or highway exit from the list of turns and exits once it creates that list for your trip. Just click on the lower left corner to pull up the list. Then click on the turn just below the one you want to exclude and not click on the actual turn. Not a very intuitive design here. The problem is that half the time it does a poor job rerouting around the excluded road, freeway, or freeway exit.

2. Second negative is that it has short battery life (3 hours according to manual) and does not come with a recharger for outside the car. Nothing to worry about if its plugged into the car of course. I got the battery logo up to 80 percent while not plugged in and with in 20 minutes of usage it was back down to 10 percent life when it was not plugged in. Basically you have to have it plugged in at all times to work.

3. Third negative is that it can’t go on pedestrian mode so its bad for walking tours of cities your visiting.

4. Fourth negative is that it can’t display traffic info. If your stuck in traffic and it sees your not moving it will ask to reroute you if you want for the traffic but it doesn’t know if the reroute will get away from traffic. Or you can manually invoke a detour with a choice of miles for the detour. When I chose a 5 mile detour option it picked a path that would have wasted an extra 45 minutes. You can pick from a 3 to 12 mile range for a detour when you touch the detour button. I recommend just going with 3. One other flaw is that if you miss the next turn on a detour route it sets the route back to the original one so now you have to go back into the menu to select detour option. Sometimes when you select detour option it wants a uturn, when you don’t make the u turn it resets the course back to the original one and so once again you have to go back to the detour screen. Decent but only if you can make the u turn or next turn so it wont reset back to the original course.

For what you do get for $75 it is outstanding and I plan to keep it for awhile. Best device for under $100. I would not buy this for more than 100. other ones for less than 100 are not as good. From what I have read on Garmins that can take in traffic info for free there are still some bugs to be worked out (like false alerts or no alerts when there is traffic) so it is not worth the high price tag as of now. I think later when some of the bugs are worked out and prices go even more down I will upgrade to a garmin unless Magellan has something better at same cost.

1 Star 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.

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