Magellan RoadMate 1424 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator
- Ultra-slim 4.3-inch color touchscreen GPS with premium navigation features
- Includes maps of United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico with 6 million points of interest
- Features multi-destination routing, spoken street names, AAA TourBook, and more
- Search for gas stations, restaurants, hotels, and more near upcoming highway exits–QuickSpell with SmartCity search makes destination entry easy
- One-year limited warranty
Product Description
Ultra-slim 4.3-inch color touchscreen GPS with premium navigation features maps of United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico with 6 million points of interest, multi-destination routing, spoken street names, AAA TourBook. Search for gas stations, restaurants, hotels, and more near upcoming highway exits– QuickSpell with SmartCity search makes destination entry easy. Includes One-year Magellan USA Limited WarrantyAmazon.com Product Description
Navigate in style with the new, ultra-thin Magellan RoadMate 1424 GPS device with a 4.3-inch wide color touch screen. Premium features include: OneTouch favorites menu, AAA TourBook and Member Roadside Assistance, QuickSpell with SmartCity search, highway exit POI, spoken street name guidance, plus so many more! A powerful navigation experience. With the features you need and the unique ability to make it your own, the Magellan RoadMate 1424 device delivers the powerful navigation experience that you’ve been … More >>
Magellan RoadMate 1424 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator
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4 comments
Katie on January 12, 2010 at 1:55 pm
This Nav is perfect for me. It’s easy to use, gives clear directions and gets me to where I want to go.
It doesn’t have a lot of fancy stuff, but I don’t need that.
If you’re looking for a simple GPS Nav….this one is perfect.
D. Thompson on January 12, 2010 at 3:30 pm
Although I have owned an in vehicle navigation product that was built-in to a car, this was my first time with an aftermarket navigation system. The navigation is excellent and satellite acquisition is quick. The display is good, but in the brightest sunlight is a bit challenging to see. This isn’t necessarily a fault unique to this product.
Overall the most impressive thing about this unit is it’s size and build quality. So compact yet with maps for the entire US and North America.
I think that it should have come with an in-home plug-in charger in addition to the in car charger, but that’s my pet peeve.
One of the larger omissions (IMHO) was not stating on the box or in the literature that updating the software and maps in the navigation unit requires a Windows PC. It can NOT be updated via any Apple computers. Ouch!
Finally, I am told the map updates are around $80. Sounds steep, but considering what it takes to update a digital map of the entire US, a fairly cheap price. And frankly, unless you are driving somewhere that has brand new roads, you won’t notice the difference. You could just wait and buy an entirely new unit every few years for not much more money. But I actually believe that it’s a good idea to support the updating of the maps by purchasing an update.
The technical support I received (when I had a question about how to switch the map from 2D to a 3D view and back) was very competent, and surprised me considering the initial purchase price of the unit. Magellan seems to have good people and customer friendly policies.
Es Em on January 12, 2010 at 6:15 pm
This product is a great buy. Very user friendly. The screen is wide enough to be viewed by both the driver and the front passenger.
We went to a complicated old neighborhood and the directions were perfect.
N. Marousek on January 12, 2010 at 8:21 pm
This piece costs $229.99 original price on Magellan website.
I did all research on Amazon and eBay, between Magellan and Garmin. Finally I decided to buy this unit, $99.99 a piece – great deal! Magellan Roadmate 1424 is brand new on the market, “Date first available at Amazon.com: October 1, 2009″ means you have new map – no need to pay extra money to get new map update. There are not many people out there know about this unit, that’s why Amazon brought down the price of this unit. This unit has Navteq map which is supposed to be very accurate. I was thinking about getting Magellan Roadmate 1440 because of lane asssist, but I came up with “lane assist is no need”. You can see the direction on a GPS and signs on the road which is keep-an-eye-on-the-road.
Customer service of Magellan is not as good as Garmin’s, so I decided to buy 3 year warranty from SquareTrade.