Magellan RoadMate 1400 4 3 Inch Portable GPS Navigator

Magellan RoadMate 1400 4 3 Inch Portable GPS Navigator

Get full turn-by-turn navigation at a breakthrough price with the Magellan RoadMate 1400. Pick a destination and choose how you navigate to virtually anywhere in the continental United States and Hawaii. Features include a 4.3-inch wide color touchscreen, intuitive menu options, and an ultra thin design.

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

The Magellan RoadMate 1400 is uniquely stylish, with a 4.3-inch wide-format, full color interactive touchscreen 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.

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. Click to enlarge.

Adjustable mount for your windshield or dashboard.

Key Features Include

• Large 4.3-inch WQVGA wide-format color 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.
• Turn-by-turn voice guidance saves time getting directions before leaving the house and enables you to keep your eyes on the road.
• Intuitive User Interface and menu options make it easy to pick destinations and choose how you navigate, without even reading the instructions.
• Uniquely stylish and compact ultra thin design makes it easy to transfer your Magellan GPS between vehicles or toss it in a suitcase to take anywhere.
• Travel the continental U.S., Hawaii and Puerto Rico with all the maps you need, pre-loaded on the included SD memory card.
• 1.3 million pre-loaded points of interest make it easy to 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.
• Interactive POI icons let you select the types of services and amenities you’d like to see and interactive icons appear on the map. Touch an icon for a nearby service to see address, phone number (when available) and get an instant route.
• Convenient “tow-truck icon” shows detailed information about your current location with a single touch so you can provide clear direction to roadside assistance.
• Program any location into the “Home” button and find your way back from wherever you are.
• Enter destinations with a few keystrokes. QuickSpell feature searches locations and checks spelling to provide you with a simple list of available destinations.
• SmartDetour feature 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.
• Auto re-route feature makes sure you never miss a turn and quickly get back on track whenever you take a detour.
• With Auto NightView color and contrast adjusts 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.
• Select up to 20 destinations with multi-destination routing and choose the order to plan a trip in advance and repeat the same trip again. Easily reorganize, add or remove destinations.
• Address Book: Create and save personal Points of Interest for easy reoccurring trips.
• Navigate up to 3 hours when power is unavailable with the 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 1400 receiver, vehicle power adapter, adhesive disk for dash mounting, windshield mount, basic cradle, preloaded map on SD card, user manual on CD-ROM, quick-start guide, reference manual

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Worked real well for us
I bought it for my husband for his b-day, right before we left on vacation (how self-serving!). It made our drive so easy!

4 Stars Good for the price my review for 2008 1400 model
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. 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.

5 Stars Awesome!
I cannot find anything bad to say about this Magellan GPS Navigator. I was able to use it right out of the box! It’s electronic voice is natural and loud enough to hear even with the windows open and the radio playing. The 1400 is also very accurate. I was amazed that the unit was able to find an unmarked dirt road that was not even listed on a paper topo map. The automatic night time view mode is outstanding. I don’t like the real bright light in my eyes at night while driving and so having the ability of keeping it mounted on the dashboard was a real plus. There are so many nice features with this unit. I was also able to easily get map updates from the Megelan site.

I love this GPS so much that I have recommended it to my friends and family.

5 Stars Has the basics straight…
This is a great GPS for the price. What I like the most about Magellan as compared to Garmin and Tom Tom is the ease of use and intuitiveness. Before with a Garmin I had, I saw confusing maps on the screen with highlighted arrows that were supposed to “show me the way”, all of this at the moment I came to the intersection or roundabout – obviously I panicked and always made the wrong turns. It happened all the time.

With Magellan this never happens because I get a side map showing me what’s coming ahead of time – I know what to expect when the time comes. Also no more calculating turns based on “0.4 miles” or such, with Magellan I get the Bell. The bell tells you that is time for action so if you miss a speech you still have time to react.

The unit simply put has all the basics clear, works well and does the job without any bells & whistles (bluetooth, MP3, etc – who needs all that crap anyways). Multi-point routing and POIs are also great add ons.

5 Stars Magellan Gps
I can’t say enough about this product. My friend let me borrow his to take on a trip. After returning I immediately ordered one. Now, I can’t do without it. It’s a great tool for the traveler and just around town or if you are house hunting or just looking for the closest Wal=Mart on a trip.

Bennie

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