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If you call magellan within 30 days of receipt and jump through a few hoops (provide proof of purchase and pay $10 shipping) you get an updated map. It has found every restaurant or drug store I have searched for.
It has been great and has guided me to every point without incident. The voice prompts are very clear.
I have had my unit for about two weeks now and have been testing it out on all my local trips to make sure it works and does not send me in the wrong direction locally, so I know I can depend on it when I have no idea where I am going. The POI's are also very cool.
The night mode is excellent and the unit is very easy to see. The interface is extremely user friendly, my 9 year old insists on typing in all our addresses and she has already mastered it.
The one complaint I have is the outdated map and that is not really the units fault. Overall excellent unit so far.
I am "technologically challenged", but found the Magellan Roadmate 1430, to be easy to use, and a great help on my recent 2800 mile road trip.
Now that would be the ultimate. I love the multidestination feature and the spoken street names.
This RoadMate 1430 takes all the things that are good about the old one and improves on them. I "upgraded" from an older Roadmate 3000T.
You don't have to always go to different screens to change things. Very easy to navigate touchscreen.
Just play with the screen pushing different icons and you will love how easy it is. The only thing that will make these GPS units better is if they team up with google or mapquest, etc, so you can custom make a map and import it into the gps.
I have never had any need for the traffic re-routing.
I was referred to Magellan's products through use of a friend whom already owns one and I stand by my choice to return my tom tom neither may not be as fast as some, but the Magellan roadmate 1430 with free traffic subscription is the choice to go with and the deal here you can't beat from where I've seen if you can find it anywhere else anymore.Pros:UI (user interface): easy to navigate menus. widescreen certainly comes in handy for scrolling and typing.Automatically traffic detouring.Auto rerouteTrip planner / Multiple destinations automatically sorts multiple destinations per trip.Voiced street names announced for every turn including freeways exit/on rampsand oh yeah my favorite the doorbell or chime to alert when exactly your turn is coming up and its balls on accurate every time.Cons:Touch screen response has its moments, but seems to be only when it hasn't warmed up.There is only one (1) way point you can set at a time, but I never seem to mind that since it saves previous addresses for later if you find yourself needing to use them again.no pedestrian mode.Overall I love this model it only has what I need it for and that's GPS.Definitely recommend this product to a friend.
30 January 2009This was a great value, and I am impressed with vendor who shipped promptly and everything was as advertised. One point is Instructions are poorly written on how to add addresses;it took awhile to figure out.Car mounts are poor and when you spend a reasonable amount of money for a GPS [as in this case] and good mount should be included. But this has nothing to do with this Vendor-who I will purchase from again and again.Larry
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