Magellan RoadMate 1424 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator

RoadMate 1424 4.3" Widescreen Ultra Thin Auto GPS Navigation Unit

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: QuickSpell® with SmartCity search; highway exit POI; spoken street name guidance; AAA TourBook® and member Roadside Assistance; plus so many more!

Also features the exclusive and highly acclaimed OneTouch favorites menu. With a single touch, you can easily save your favorite destinations or find them anytime, anywhere you travel.

The Magellan RoadMate 1424 device delivers a powerful navigation experience.

OneTouch favorites menu offers instant access to your personalized bookmarks of favorite places and searches anywhere you travel. With a single touch, find your favorite café or restaurant when you're traveling within any city.

4.3-inch color touch screen provides powerful navigation that's easy to view and use.

AAA TourBook® provides ratings and descriptions on AAA approved places to stay, play, dine, and save.

AAA Member Roadside Assistance gets you help fast with a toll-free member service number to assist you in finding an AAA approved tow truck or repair shop. The menu also shows your exact GPS location so you can provide precise information to your location.1

Spoken street names and directions so you can hear and see where you need to turn next.

Highway exit POIs search shows you gas stations, restaurants, hotels, and more near upcoming highway exits.

QuickSpell® with SmartCity search narrows your address and city searches, making destination entry easy.

Multi-destination routing with route optimization lets you plan your trip with multiple stops in the order you want or optimize a trip for the most efficient route, saving you time and money.

Preloaded NAVTEQ maps give you information and directions as you travel the United States, Canada, and Pue

Magellan RoadMate 1424 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator Features

Search for gas stations, restaurants, hotels, and more near upcoming highway exits--QuickSpell with SmartCity search makes destination entry easy
Features multi-destination routing, spoken street names, AAA TourBook, and more
Includes maps of United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico with 6 million points of interest
Ultra-slim 4.3-inch color touchscreen GPS with premium navigation features

Price: $90.43

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

Buying a GPS was a daunting task. I was contemplating purchasing one for quite sometime but kept going back and forth on whether its worth it. The main issue was I wrongly assumed that you needed a higher end GPS to get a quality experience, but I would not use it enough to spend the money. If I was going to buy a GPS, I felt it was important enough to spend the bucks on a high end model.

I settled for this one being persuaded on it being a goldbox deal at a decent price and for the lifetime maps. I concluded that I would not use the GPS frequent enough to warrant purchasing a high end GPS model, and the lifetime maps costs between $60-90 for any company. I did not want my product outdated for months or years to come and did not think I would use the GPS often enough to want to purchase the lifetime maps for other units, so this perfectly satisfied my needs.

Well after using it significantly, the Magellan Roadmate 1424 is awesome.
The Pros:
-VERY QUICK IN TYPING YOUR DESTINATION. Sorry for the caps, but it is just amazingly good at narrowing down and auto-filling your destination. It will literally eliminate thousands of street possibilities, and just narrow down to actual street names within the city for you to choose. IT ONLY TAKES SECONDS to type your destination.
-Acquires signal fast
-The map on the GPS unit has a realistic look that I much prefer over the cartoony Garmin and TomToms.
-Great customer support
-Magellans software is very easy to use. It does all the work for you in fetching and installing updates.
-Product is loud and will tell you outloud the street names accurately. I was surprised on how well the unit was pronouncing some street names.
-After extensive use in a busy city, the GPS unit was very accurate in getting me around.

CON-
The update software for Magellan does not support MACs. Hopefully, they are working on that.

I honestly could not find any major faults. Than again, I am not a GPS enthusiast but am perfectly happy with my purchase. This product proved to me that you don't always have to spend the money to buy the best.
-- No need for a higher end GPS

The unit is great, but a big reason I chose this one over other models was that it came with "free updates". It appears that on the website, firmware is an "update" but maps are an "upgrade". -- Where are the free map "updates"?

This is my second Magellan GPS. The map is very readable in all lighting conditions and the destination is easy to enter. The sound is not as good as the older unit I purchased three years ago, There is a "fuzzy" quality that I find somewhat anoying, and there is a volume inconsistancy in that the direction instruction is louder than the street name confirmation that follows each instruction. I have tryed to adjust the volume but louder or softer the descrepency remains. -- Good product Low price

so far, so good. my son likes it a lot, even though he just started using it. seems very sleek and responsive. seems like good quality. will let you know more in a couple of months -- for my son