Magellan RoadMate 1430 4 3 Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Traffic
Get full turn-by-turn navigation, LIVE traffic capability, 6 million Points of Interest, SayWhere text-to speech, an extra large 4.3″ wide-format, full color touch screen and more. The Magellan RoadMate 1430 has a built-in traffic receiver with LIVE traffic reports that appear on the interactive touch screen with delay advisories for incidents along your route. A 3-month FREE subscription is included. Built in maps of the entire U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada are also included.
Intuitive User Interface Ultra-thin design Interactive POI icons Tow truck icon – shows detailed information about your current location so you can provide clear direction to roadside assistance Home icon – Program any location into the Home button and find your way back from wherever you are QuickSpell – Enter destinations with a few keystrokes SmartDetour – prompts you to route around suddenly slow or stopped freeway traffic and automatically calculates the quickest detour Birds eye 3D view – Clearly see your surroundings in 2D or 3D Auto re-route whenever you take a detour Auto NightView – Color and contrast adjusts for easy viewing at night Customizable route methods Multi-destination routing – Select up to 20 destinations and choose the order Address Book – Create and save personal Points of Interest Rechargeable battery – Navigate up to 3 hours The Centrality Atlas III processor provides accurate and reliable positioning and navigation within three meters
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Good Value
30 January 2009
This was a great value, and I am impressed with vendor who shipped promptly and everything was as advertised. One point is Instructions are poorly written on how to add addresses;it took awhile to figure out.
Car mounts are poor and when you spend a reasonable amount of money for a GPS [as in this case] and good mount should be included. But this has nothing to do with this Vendor-who I will purchase from again and again.
Larry
5 Stars Best choice for value.
I was referred to Magellan’s products through use of a friend whom already owns one and I stand by my choice to return my tom tom neither may not be as fast as some, but the Magellan roadmate 1430 with free traffic subscription is the choice to go with and the deal here you can’t beat from where I’ve seen if you can find it anywhere else anymore.
Pros:
UI (user interface): easy to navigate menus. widescreen certainly comes in handy for scrolling and typing.
Automatically traffic detouring.
Auto reroute
Trip planner / Multiple destinations automatically sorts multiple destinations per trip.
Voiced street names announced for every turn including freeways exit/on ramps
and oh yeah my favorite the doorbell or chime to alert when exactly your turn is coming up and its balls on accurate every time!
Cons:
Touch screen response has its moments, but seems to be only when it hasn’t warmed up.
There is only one (1) way point you can set at a time, but I never seem to mind that since it saves previous addresses for later if you find yourself needing to use them again.
no pedestrian mode.
Overall I love this model it only has what I need it for and that’s GPS!
Definitely recommend this product to a friend.
1 Star Magellan Roadmate 1430
I am “technologically challenged”, but found the Magellan Roadmate 1430, to be easy to use, and a great help on my recent 2800 mile road trip!
5 Stars Excellent Upgrade That cost less.
I “upgraded” from an older Roadmate 3000T. This RoadMate 1430 takes all the things that are good about the old one and improves on them. Very easy to navigate touchscreen. Just play with the screen pushing different icons and you will love how easy it is. You don’t have to always go to different screens to change things. I love the multidestination feature and the spoken street names. The only thing that will make these GPS units better is if they team up with google or mapquest, etc, so you can custom make a map and import it into the gps. Now that would be the ultimate. I have never had any need for the traffic re-routing.
5 Stars Excellent choice
I would definitely recommend the Magellan RoadMate 1430 unit. This is our first GPS, and after much research, I decided to go with this one based on the good reviews it has received from users, the features you get for the price, and a great deal that was being offered. I’m very happy with the unit. It does what it says it can do, and without any problems.
I still haven’t opened the manual yet, because it’s so easy to get going. The unit walks you right through it, and you’re up and running in no time. Good choice.
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