Magellan RoadMate 1440 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator
- Text to Speech Announces street names and directions at each turn
- Features a 4.3-Inch WQVGA color touch screen
- Highway lane assist helps you navigate the interstate
- Personalize OneTouch search icons with your favorite places
- Features AAA TourBook and Roadside Assistance menu
Product DescriptionThe newly redesigned Magellan RoadMate 1440 GPS device now boasts a 4. 3-Inch color touch screen and ultrathin design, delivering powerful navigation in a compact package. This easy-to-use device gives you confidence while on the road with premium features including: AAA TourBook, highway lane assist, spoken street names, multi-destination routing, and pre-loaded maps of North America. Exclusive Magellan OneTouch personalized menu lets you easily bookmark favorite s. . . More >>
Magellan 1440 GPS Roadside. . . . . . . . . Nothing functioned . . . . . Power cable was defective and replaced. Then, the main GPS Unit did not function. It to, was replaced. But I had to pay the shoipping of the unit to their repair/replacement facility. Sorry, but why are all the ’service facility employee’s from India. Langage is sometimes difficult to understand, but they were very very polite. Lots of time to finally get an operational GPS Unit.
Rating: 1 / 5
I have several GPS as we have several cars and I hate to constantly take out of one car and put in next. This is a great machine. I love the talking advantage over the others, it helps to know when and exactly where you are turning. This little machine does it all. It s great. If you want to get somewhere and get there fast and without difficulty and around the town one or more times this is the machine for you.
Rating: 4 / 5
Unit would display same error message after entering location. Sent to magellan. Can back with same problem. Even worse. I purchase a Gamin 255W & love it.
Rating: 1 / 5
I was sooo hyped up about getting a new GPS since my old one was destroyed by someone i lent it to. (which reminds me, NEVER LEND YOUR GPS TO ANYONE! Friend or not, even if they say they’ll take the best care of it. IT WILL GET RUINED, i’ve seen it so many times)
A little off topic there but anyway, I bought this GPS after playing with a floor model in Best Buy and decided to purchase one. (I gave this product an extra star because of the nice features i saw in the floor model). When I got home I took the GPS out of the box and turned it on and planned on fiddling with all the features when. . . . wait. . . something was wrong. On the map viewer it displayed “acquiring sattelite. . . ” on the top,FOR AN HOUR!!! There was no freakin’ signal, I even drove around town to see if it would pick up anything.
I called tech support and they talk to you as if your an idiot. “Here’s what you do” they said. “Turn and hold the power switch” oooooh, as if i dont know how to turn off a GPS! What’s next, i wonder? “Now turn the switch again to power it on. ” OH, now we’re cookin’! “Do you see a difference?” they asked. hmmm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NOOOOO! Then they offer me to send it to them in order for them to send me a refurbished one (and not only that they said they wouldn’t be able to process anything 4 days from now). WHAT?!!! I just forked out $170 and you’re going to tell me i wont even get a brand new one, just another crap GPS that was sent back then “allegedly” fixed?! Wow, nice job guys you just really lowered the bar for yourselves. I was such a big magellan fan.
Rating: 2 / 5
This little machine, like most, has some interesting features and some less interesting drawbacks. The breadth of knowledge and the battery were two strong positives. Its inability to find home after taking a slight roadwork detour was pretty troubling. And I’m not sure which category The Voice fits into yet.
I was impressed by the breadth of knowledge the machine displayed about local Points of Interest and Local Info. I live in a small tourist town, with a winter population of 1000, which was described pretty accurately. (Apparently I live in a “picturesque small town overflowing with nostalgic charm. “) It gave a lot of exact information and phone numbers about local gas stations, restaurants (24 within 10 miles), and nightlife (20 within 10 miles). I also found ATMs, airports, camping sites (as if), motels, grocery stores, emergency services. Some information, for Marinas, was way off and incorrect, and there were some anomalies that required local knowledge. (One restaurant in particular, a town favorite, should be listed under Health Department favorites. ) It knew boat cruises and tours but not dune rides –? However, this device has a lot of pretty good information available. I checked for info of towns in Canada and Puetro Rico, and that was also accurate.
This device has a good strong battery. It took very little charging to make it stay on for a while, demonstrating a much stronger battery life than my Garmin nuvi 660 4. 3-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator ever had. When fully charged over a couple of hours of driving, they have approximately the same amount of battery life. After a short twenty-five minute charge though, the Nuvi gave up within five minutes while the Magellan stayed on for over an hour and a half.
The Voice (and there are precious few other ways to think of it) coming out of this device is a little alarming at first. It warns you three times before you need to turn, starting when you are a half-mile away. But I did like that the speaker is in the system and I didn’t have to find an empty FM channel to play it through. Living near two cities means that channels are sometimes empty and sometimes not. The Magellan speaks loudly and clearly. I think in the end, that it is a benefit that it has a good speaker.
But with the good also came the bad. The Magellan couldn’t find its way home when I turned when it wasn’t expecting me to. We are having serious road work, causing both sides of my street to be shut down and to get home now requires driving down into the town where I live and then up the hill and around the high school.
The other problem was that when it was operating in my car, side by side with a Garmin nuvi, the maps were far less detailed. The display was the same size but the picture quality was not. It had a tendency to only show things on the street I was driving on rather than the nearby points of interest that the nuvi knows about.
A variety of problems typing in data: I had some difficulty typing in the small city near my own because it automatically starts filling in names and it does not acknowledge the possibility of the city named Holland in Michigan. It thinks that Holland is Hollandale or Holland Landing, or Holland Centre, or Holland Town of. . . It took awhile, too long, to override the presets. And it seemed like there were too many steps to put in addresses.
This unit had problems right out of the box. Then it had more troubles from its Tech support. Bad combination. I contacted Magellan and it took 3 days for them to get back to me to ask me what my question was. Yes, I did send my original request on a Friday morning and they replied Monday at 11:59 am. It was not a holiday weekend. That’s a long time in the world of instant information.
The other problem this particular unit has is that it thinks it is in San Dimas, CA, and it wants to go to the Burger King. I have not persuaded it otherwise.
Rating: 4 / 5