Magellan RoadMate 1440 4 3 Inch Portable GPS Navigator
Magellan RoadMate 1440 4 3 Inch Portable GPS Navigator
GPS satellite navigation unit with built-in antenna * 4.3″ color (480 x 272 pixels) touchscreen control * internal flash memory preloaded with maps of the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico, plus 6 million points of interest * text-to-speech technology lets voice prompts announce road names over the built-in speaker *
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Absolutely the BEST!!!
This product from Magellan is the best GPS unit that I have ever had. I used Garmin and Tomtom and also other produts with Magellan. This one is great. Clear, accurate, to the point fast and programmable.
It is far more advanced in its touch face, destinations, PO interests, and the AAA recommedation is a plus.
The only shortcoming on this unit is that it does not have a battery meter to show the battery strenght.
But overall once you own this unit, you will not look for any other unit. I am saying this as an experienced GPSer.
Happy and safe driving!
1 Star Didn’t complete first trip
Was excited about receiving this product, seemed to have a lot of features for the price. Well, didn’t turn out so well for me. I decided to navigate myself to work just to test it out. The unit plotted the course just fine from my home, but for some reason had me located one block over. Then it kept telling me to turn to meet up with the fictitious position it had me in.
Not deterred, I stayed true to course and it finally caught up with me and navigated just fine. Coughed it up to first use shake out. When I returned from work I decided to give it another shot. Everything started great, completed about 90% of the trip then froze up. Thought about re-booting, but let it unfreeze, which it did in about 5 minutes. I’m still hanging in there, it’s new so it will work itself out, NOT!!! Froze up again 10 minutes later. To it’s credit, it realized it was crewing up and displayed a message that it must re-boot to optimize navigation. I’m like cool, okay, now we are getting somewhere. It re-booted and BAM! froze up again where it remains.
I will return it, but don’t think I will try this model again.
5 Stars Ryan’s Review
May 6 2009
This is a great piece of equipment. The CPU on this G.P.S. is very fast. Route calculation is fast and accurate. If you live in New Jersey and travel on the Parkway/Turnpike/Route 80, Lane Guidance works perfectly.
I drive 700-800 miles a week an and this is a must have. I did not want a unit with Bluetooth or FM Transmitter which is missing from this unit, and maybe that’s the reason it works so well. The 3D map is amazing unlike the Roadmate 1412. After 25 miles of driving, a message popup saying that the G.P.S. needs to reboot to improve performance after that I haven’t seeing any other issues so far.
The map in night mode is also a great improvement over the Roadmate 1412 and not too bright. I have owned a garmin 660 and a magellan roadmate 1412(horrible G.P.S. unit) and I have to congratulate Magellan on this one.
Great product so far.
I would recommend this unit to anyone who is in the market for a great Navigation unit at a reasonable price.
May 7 2009
***** About the Reboot
I called magellan today May 7th and they said that there is patch coming out on May 8th to fix the Lane Guidance which is the cause of the reboot.
guess I’ll fine out tomorrow.
