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User Reviews about Magellan RoadMate 1424 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator

First, I owned a Magellan Maestro 3100, basic earlier generation unit. I much preferred the usability of the interface to the Garmin & Tom Tom equivalents. The Roadmate 1424 improves and addresses virtually all my annoyances with the older series.

Pros:
Acquires signal very fast
Recalculates routes so fast you barely notice (and it no longer announces "recalculating", just does it).
Allows you to "insert" and immediately route to any POI or destination, then continue to original destination.
Shows graphic map and estimated time for all 4 routing 'options' making it much easier to select your choice (I'd prefer exact distance to estimated time, but it's pretty good).
Routing is faster and shortest route now tends to avoid unpaved roads (I live in a rural area).
Has 2nd generation of their One Touch interface (2 screens worth of programmable icons)
Having applied their 2.20 firmware upgrade, it has never reset, frozen or gone into 'calculating' mode like some report on the 1440 & 1470.

Cons:
Position tends to lag 10-20 yards behind actual position, a problem the entire 14** series seems to have, Magellan is aware and a firmware upgrade to cure this is expected.
If you like to fiddle with different voices, forget it, no choices and no memory slot, but it already has the largest/newest POI file Magellan offers.
It's just a GPS, doesn't play music, doesn't show vids, doesn't bake pizza. -- Excellent value

This is a great product. This is the second one purchased and all the drivers in the household love it. -- Magellan RoadMate 1424 Review

I bought this for my husband who, in typical male fashion, never would ask for directions. Now he uses it for going everywhere, even to the corner store. I find it generally accurate but sometimes a bit confusing on the north and south directions ie; if you want to enter a highway going south but have to turn to the north to do so, Magellan says to turn north instead of just saying "right turn in xxx feet". We've both learned to listen for the bell signifying a turn. Looking forward to using it on our cross country next summer. -- Driving Around in Circles!!!!

I have used the GPS (Magellan Roadmate 1424) once since I received it and it did well; however, it would be better if there was a choice of male or female voices.
John (Tom) -- My Comments regarding the GPS I recently purchased from Amazon.