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Magellan RoadMate 1440 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator

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Magellan RoadMate 1440 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator
 
Manufacturer: Magellan
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List Price: $199.99
Sale Price: $124.99
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Product Description
The Magellan RoadMate 1440 device boasts the acclaimed OneTouch menu, a 4.3-inch color touch screen, and an ultra-thin design. Preloaded maps and points of interest for the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico make the RoadMate 1440 ideal for both business trips and vacations. Easy-to-use, premium features give you confidence on the road and deliver a powerful navigation experience.

Easy-to-use, premium features give you confidence on the road and deliver a powerful navigation experience. Click to enlarge.

OneTouch favorites menu affords instant access to your personalized bookmarks of favorite places and searches anywhere you travel. Click to enlarge.

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

Highway lane assist signs show highway signs to point you in the right direction when approaching interchanges and exits. Click to enlarge.

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, helping you save time and money. Click to enlarge.

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

The Magellan RoadMate 1440 includes many premier features, starting with Magellan's exclusive OneTouch favorites menu, QuickSpell with SmartCity search, and highway exit point of interest (POI) search, to name a few. Magellan's attention to detail delivers a superior user experience.

Intuitive and robust navigation
The RoadMate 1440 lets you bookmark your favorite destinations and searches with the OneTouch favorites menu so you can access them anywhere you travel. With a single touch, find your favorite cafe or restaurant when you're traveling within any city.

QuickSpell and Smart City search help you quickly enter addresses and narrow 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, helping you save time and money.

Safety first on the road
You can keep your eyes on the road as you drive because spoken street name guidance announces the street name along with audible turning cues. Highway lane assist offers visual aids to point you in the right direction and ensure that you'll choose the correct lane well before your next turn.

Should your vehicle unfortunately break down as you travel, the AAA locate screen provides your location so help will know where to find you. Get support fast with the AAA Member Roadside Assistance1 phone number and your location displayed on the RoadMate 1440 screen.

Ready to roll
You're ready to travel with preloaded maps and points of interest for the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico that make the Magellan RoadMate 1440 ideal for both business trips and vacations. (Mexico map activation available for purchase on www.magellangps.com).

With millions of points of interest at your command you can easily locate gas stations, restaurants, ATMs, coffee shops, and much more. If you need more information or you want to save money, select the AAA search menu after your search entry. AAA TourBook provides ratings and descriptions on AAA approved places to stay, play, dine, and save.

When you're traveling down the Interstate and need to find gas, food, or lodging in a hurry, touch the highway exit POI icon to see which upcoming highway exits have the services you need.

Do you often find yourself tied up in traffic? The RoadMate 1440 is Traffic Link compatible, offering live onscreen traffic-incident reports. (The Traffic Link accessory is sold separately).

Turn it on and go!
The Magellan RoadMate 1440 is loaded with premier features you'll need to get you where you want to go.

Magellan RoadMate 1440 Features

  • OneTouch favorites menu affords instant access to your personalized bookmarks of favorite places and searches anywhere you travel. With a single touch, find your favorite cafe 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.
  • Highway lane assist signs show highway signs to point you in the right direction when approaching interchanges and exits, and ensure that you'll choose the correct lane well before your next turn.
  • Spoken street names and directions so you can hear and see where you need to turn next.
  • 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 maps give you information and directions as you travel the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. (Mexico map activation available for purchase on www.magellangps.com).
  • Millions of points of interest (POIs) help you easily find gas stations, restaurants, ATMs, coffee shops, and much more.
  • Highway exit POIs search shows you gas stations, restaurants, hotels, and more near upcoming highway exits.
  • Branded POIs display your favorite coffee shops, restaurants, and more by their respective logos.
  • Traffic Link provides live, onscreen traffic notification updates. (This accessory is sold separately).
  • Customizable route method lets you select the shortest distance, fastest time, most use of freeways, or least use of freeways to customize your route.
  • Address book enables you to create and store contact information.
  • Auto night view adjusts your screen's color and contrast for easy night viewing.
  • Automatic re-route lets you quickly get back on track in case you missed a turn.
  • Plan route on map by simply touching a destination on the map screen and then directly routing to it.
  • Rechargeable battery gives you the freedom to drive wireless or plan your trip when your vehicle's engine is turned off.

What's in the Box
RoadMate 1440 GPS receiver, Pre-loaded maps of the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico, Windshield mount, Adhesive disc for dash mounting, Vehicle power adapter, User handbook, USB cable, User manual on CD-ROM

Product Details
  • Text to Speech Announces street names and directions at each turn
  • Features a 4.3-Inch WQVGA color touch screen
  • Highway lane assist helps you navigate the interstate
  • Personalize OneTouch search icons with your favorite places
  • Features AAA TourBook and Roadside Assistance menu

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Customer Reviews
All the features you will need on a GPS!!! (1440 vs 1470)
 
Review Date: June 23, 2009
Reviewer: G. Perez, CA
I am very happy with the Magellan RoadMate 1440, it's just such a good GPS Navigator with all the bells and whistles!

The 1440 is very accurate at saving you time during trips, you can set it up to give you the fastest route or the shortest distance to your destination, which in many cases, is not the same route.

The highway lane assist is one of those features that you might not think you need until you start dealing with lower end GPS units that don't offer such features. Take it from a guy who used to own a tomtom One 3rd edition! This feature helps you make sure that you are choosing the correct lane to exit during a freeway interchange. You'll be glad you have this feature, trust me!

Just in case you were wondering, this unit is also compatible with the "Magellan Traffic Link" (sold Separately) which gives you FREE real time traffic alerts in exchange for small banner ads such as "AM/PM too much good stuff!" displayed on the top of your screen. a small price to pay for such a great service! In case of a traffic jam, a small timer will appear right next to the traffic warning sign, which tells you how many minutes it estimates you will be stuck in there. Click on the warning sign and it will give you a second route to follow. It will compare both routes for you and give you an estimated arrival time for each one. At this point you can opt to avoid traffic or deal with it. This is one of the best features of this unit and a must have for people who have to deal with hours of traffic on a daily basis! (yes, I live in California and traffic jams are a part of my life)

I purposely "got lost" many times to test how accurate the unit was. I would assign a "point of interest" and make the wrong turns just to see how long it would take it to catch up to me, let me tell you it's fast! in most cases it will have a new route to follow before I even hit the next intersection.

It comes with TTS (text to speech) which means it actually tells you to "turn right on Magnolia" as opposed to "turn right in 30 feet", this is a nice feature to have, but it was a must have feature for me, since my previous unit didn't have it.

One odd thing about the 1440 is that when you save a new address to your address book, it automatically assigns it to "Home" in many cases I was trying to add a place of business and it didn't give me the option to do so, it has the "Business" space but you need to add a home address before it lets you add the business address, so everytime I click on "work" it shows me a little picture of a house as opposed to a picture of a building. Nothing big really, I'm sure they can fix that with a firmware update.


1440 vs 1470

I also tested this unit against it's bigger brother, the Magellan RoadMate 1470 displaying a 4.7" screen. If you are like me and are looking at this item, you probably have been switching screens between this one and the 1470!

Looks: The 1440 seems to be a little thicker than the 1470, not a big difference, really. The 1470 feels smoother and it has rounded edges as opposed to the square look on the 1440. The back on the 1470 is silver, the back on the 1440 is black.


Display: The 1470 screen has richer colors than the 1440, at their higher settings, the 1470 is just a little brighter than the 1440, still the 1440 screen is just as bright as you need a GPS screen to be.

Response time: I tested them in situations such turning them on/off, missing my turns to see how fast it would relocate, assigning destinations and looking up Points of Interests, The 1440 responded from 1-3 seconds faster than the 1470 model. Might not seem like much of a difference, but when you're on the road, just a few seconds might make you miss your exit!

Features: they both have the exact same features, nothing different here.

Sound: The 1440 has a slight louder speaker than the 1470.


Both units are great, differences were very minimal. This choice is mostly determined on how big you want the screen and how much you are willing to pay for the difference.

I hope that this review helps you make a better buying choice!
Ryan's Review
 
Review Date: May 7, 2009
Reviewer: Ryan Fileus, NJ
May 6 2009

This is a great piece of equipment. The CPU on this G.P.S. is very fast. Route calculation is fast and accurate. If you live in New Jersey and travel on the Parkway/Turnpike/Route 80, Lane Guidance works perfectly.

I drive 700-800 miles a week an and this is a must have. I did not want a unit with Bluetooth or FM Transmitter which is missing from this unit, and maybe that's the reason it works so well. The 3D map is amazing unlike the Roadmate 1412. After 25 miles of driving, a message popup saying that the G.P.S. needs to reboot to improve performance after that I haven't seeing any other issues so far.

The map in night mode is also a great improvement over the Roadmate 1412 and not too bright. I have owned a garmin 660 and a magellan roadmate 1412(horrible G.P.S. unit) and I have to congratulate Magellan on this one.

Great product so far.

I would recommend this unit to anyone who is in the market for a great Navigation unit at a reasonable price.


May 7 2009

***** About the Reboot

I called magellan today May 7th and they said that there is patch coming out on May 8th to fix the Lane Guidance which is the cause of the reboot.

guess I'll fine out tomorrow.
A-mazing
 
Review Date: October 2, 2009
Reviewer: Y. Z., CA. USA
What a wonderful GPS!. I bought it because I wanted certain features in a GPS only to find that it has so much more to offer. After one month of use for both short and very long trips, during the daytime or at night, in areas that I am moderately familiar with and some that are new to me, on Highways and city streets and also using it as a pedestrian, it surpassed all of my expectations.
Easy to use, very light, and with a fantastic set of features:
It speeds up address entry by only showing the possible characters completions to City and Street names. It has a clear, bright screen and voice commands that read out Street names and Exit numbers on Highways (not just "turn right in 0.2 miles").
The 'Lane Assist' is ingenious, showing you lifelike green roadsigns of the lanes you need to take and the ones to avoid when you get close to diverging highways or multi-lane exits. It also zooms in when you approach a turn, and sounds a chime just before every turn to alert you that it is 'time' (you can select from a few different sounds, or mute it if desired).
The screen has a day mode and a night mode, which can be set to either, or to 'auto' where the picture changes from day to night mode in the evening (the background tones turn dark for easier viewing at night). I particularly liked the night mode and set it so most of the time.
Remember though that your eyes should be on the road, not the GPS, and Magellan does a great job at allowing you to see where you are with a quick glimpse.
The GPS also has many Points of Interest, from Grocery stores, Gas Stations, Emergency services, Banks, ATMs, Restaurants (either by name, or category) and many more useful business types. It remembers your destination and will offer to resume-trip if turned off. You can also add multiple stops to a trip, see POI on Highway exists, watch the speed of the car (or even when walking), distance to destination, direction, distance to the next turn - so very useful - ETA, and more. Oh and it has 2D or 3D options too. After the initial excitement form the 3D, I found that the 2D actually gives you you an easier view of turns , ramp access to freeways etc.
Because most of my trips were relatively short the 3-hour battery life was quite sufficient and I did not need to use the battery adapter in the car. I bought a v120 charger for home (~$5) and that keeps the Magellan fully charged. It would be nice to be able to tell how much battery life is left, but this is just a small thing. Many times I enter the destination at home before leaving. The touch screen is responsive and can be dragged right and left, or use the -/+ to zoom out/in. Finally, should you get off route, the GPS re-calculated the new directions within 5-10 seconds at the most. This is an example of Technology and Human engineering at it's best. One last comment. You may want to try the same GPS only in 4.7". Happy Travels.
Great Roadmate
 
Review Date: June 22, 2009
Reviewer: Thomas A. Nadolski, Mid Michigan
This is my very first GPS and I could not be more pleased. The first good thing was the great deal I got from Amazon,over $30.00 less then anywhere else. Then the product - excellent. Being the first, I cannot compare it to any other unit, but I have found it very easy to use and working flawlessly. Programming is easy, right out of the box. The voice is pleasant with adjustable volume. My only complaint and it is no different than any other device such as a cell phone, is that the screen is tough to see in bright sunlight. But, with the voice guiding your turns, and the fact the sun is rarely staying on your gps, this is not really an issue. I have found this unit a great value and highly recommend it!
Excellent for the newby user
 
Review Date: July 31, 2009
Reviewer: Keith D. Bolton, Villa Rica, GA
It's my first GPS and I did my homework before purchasing this GPS. First the price on Amazon was the lowest at $150 and free shipping. Took 7 weekdays to arrive. I took the GPS out of the box, didn't read any instructions. Mounted it to my windshield and figured out the majority of it just sitting in my car. The car charger is the same as the Motorola Razor so I have plenty of the wall chargers laying around to charge at home. It also came with a windshield mount. I was hoping I didn't have to buy any other accessories and I didn't.
First of all the screen is the perfect size at 4.3" I programmed the unit to take me to work and it gives the estimated arrival time, or speed, or direction or elevation. You choose. It also has the option to show gas stations, restaurants and other points of interest as you travel your route. Even has icons for each gas station like BP for instance. It shows the sign for your exit and it tells you in plenty of time which lane to get in. If approaching a major Interstate Exchange, it will tell you not to exit there and to keep traveling on your route to avoid any confusion. The Volumn is loud enough to hear as long as the music is low. You can set it on auto Day/Night use to avoid glare at night. It is just idiot proof as we say in the Army. You can choose a POI and ask the GPS to take you there from your current location. It probably has way more features than I need right now, but if you are on the highway on a long trip, I know it will come in handy for food, gas, and emergency services. I highly recommend this GPS to anyone, especially if your new to the market.
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