New 4.3" WQVGA, full-color, anti-glare, touch-screen display
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6 Million Searchable Points of Interest: Customers can easily search for restaurants, hotels, airports, gas stations, and more. Results include telephone numbers and addresses.
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SayWhere: Text-to-speech tells drivers the street name of their next turn.
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Wide-screen, ultra-thin form factor with the functionality and navigation features that GPS consumers expect
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SmartDetour: prompts drivers to route around heavy or stopped freeway traffic
Product Description GPS satellite navigation unit with built-in antenna * 4.3" color (480 x 272 pixels) touchscreen control * 6 million points of interest * SD card preloaded with maps of the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico * text-to-speech technology lets voice prompts announce road names over the built-in speaker *
Doesn't power upOctober 7, 2008 After a couple months and rarely used I can't power it up. I have charged it up for 4 hrs. and nothing. Can someone advise?
MagellanOctober 3, 2008 UPS ground took a very long time....7 days ... like pony express. I ordered another package UPS Ground from Santa Clara and it only took 2 days UPS ground
hmmmm otherwise all is well
Very CleanSeptember 22, 2008 September 22, 2008
I purchased this unit for my upcoming travel around the USA. I have played around with it for a week around home and I do like what I see.
The text to speech is my favorite feature. Very clear and concise.
I am looking forward to utilizing the 'Exit POI' feature which informs you just what's off those freeway exits that you cannot see unless your driving thru California or Neveda.
_____________________________________ October 6, 2008
Well, Maggie as I call her was called on to guide me to my first stop hotel in Cedar City, UT. Unfortunately she led me to a goat field in the neighboring city of Kanarraville. What a dissapointment! Fortunately I had my AAA roadmap and found the Stratford Hotel at 18 S. Main St.
She did find my 2nd stop in Dillon, CO.
Magellan Roadmate 1412September 20, 2008 Not a bad unit for the price. Locked up once, not 100% accurate with streets vs. dead ends. Great for long trips, good for off-ramp services ahead.
won't get you lostSeptember 8, 2008 8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I extensively used my companies pricier Garmin a few years ago, then bought this for myself after I changed jobs.
Two features I really miss, and feel they are not exclusive to high end models; the old Garmin said "arriving at destination ON RIGHT" (or left). This one just says "arriving at destination", so I spend more time swiveling my head around looking.
The Garmin also allowed me to program stops along the way during a route execution. The Magellan 1412 will only allow you to divert to "exit points of interests" and only along a freeway. Otherwise, if you're enroute, you have to cancel the route, search for what it is your looking for, then activate that route, then re-start your original route after. Or you can preplan it all -- as if you know ahead of time where you'll be needing to find a coffe shop on an old state road.
The "Exit POI" feature is very nice, however. How many times have you been on a long road trip and flown past an exit you thought was devoid of gas stations or restaurants because there were no signs ahead? This prevents that nicely and lets you see within 15 or so miles what is coming up along a freeway.
The POIs in the database are also pretty good-- lots more categories than I had on the older Garmin.
The battery is puny, and won't hold much of a charge. Keep the power cord close by.
The window mount is excellent -- better than the Garmin I had.
The speaker is small, and a bit hard to hear if you have a noisy car.
This one does say the name of the street-- a minimum standard in all GPS in my opinion.
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