Magellan RoadMate 1412 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator

by Magellan

Product Details

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• Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 9.8 x 2.1 inches ; 7 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0014LC9S0
• Item model number: Magellan RoadMate 1412
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (217 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,318 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Magellan RoadMate 1412 is pocket-sized, ultra-thin, and stylish, and features an extra large 4.3-inch wide-format, full color interactive touchscreen. The expanded Points of Interest database offers 6 million built-in destinations for an incredible value. Find fuel, food, lodging, ATMs and hundreds of other businesses and services with a few touches of the screen. Plus, it includes built-in maps of the entire United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada.

Clear 4.3-inch WQVGA touchscreen shows your position, POIs, route, ETA and more on the interactive map

Use the intuitive menu options to pick your destination and choose how you navigate to virtually anywhere. If you want to stay on the freeway, avoid freeways, travel the shortest distance or arrive in the quickest time, your Magellan RoadMate enables you to navigate the way you want. You can even exclude specific roads or freeways from your route and also avoid toll roads.

SayWhere text-to-speech tells you street names with every turn-by-turn direction.

The advanced QuickSpell feature intelligently searches addresses and Points of Interest, offering you a simple list of available locations. It even checks spelling so you can enter a destination with just a few touches of the screen.

SmartDetour prompts you to route around sudden slow or stopped freeway traffic and automatically re-calculates the fastest detour.

The integrated rechargeable battery offers navigation for up to three hours. Search destinations, plan trips and enter addresses and personal Points of Interest from a meeting place, restaurant or anywhere power is unavailable.

Innovative easy-to-use interface makes it a breeze to find the route to your destination in seconds--without even needing to read the instructions. Click to enlarge.

Adjustable mount for your windshield or dashboard.

Key Features Include

• Large wide-format color 4.3-inch WQVGA touchscreen shows your position on the map, route, destination, ETA, surrounding Points of Interest, signal strength, next maneuver, street names and more at a glance.
• 6 million Points of Interest: Easily find what you need. Gas stations, restaurants, hotels, ATMs and hundreds of other businesses and services are intuitively categorized and searchable from the built-in POI database. Most include the phone number.
• Expanded NAVTEQ maps let you Travel the entire U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada with all the maps you need, pre-loaded on the included SD memory card.
• SayWhere text-to-speech lets you hear street names with every voice direction and have a clear understanding of when to make the next turn while you keep your eyes on the road.
• Bold, intuitive menu options make it easy to pick destinations and choose how you navigate, without even reading the instructions.
• Uniquely stylish and compact, it's easy to transfer your Magellan GPS between vehicles or toss it in a suitcase to take anywhere.
• Select the types of services and amenities you'd like to see and interactive POI icons appear on the map. Touch an icon for a nearby service to see address, phone number (when available) and get an instant route.
• Program any location into the "Home" button and find your way back from wherever you are.
• Enter destinations with a few keystrokes. QuickSpell searches locations and checks spelling to provide you with a simple list of available destinations.
• SmartDetour prompts you to route around suddenly slow or stopped freeway traffic and automatically calculates the quickest detour. No fee or subscription is required.
• Clearly see your surroundings in 2D or 3D with Birds eye 3D view.
• Never miss a turn with Auto re-route and quickly get back on track whenever you take a detour.
• Auto NightView controls color and contrast adjusting automatically for easy viewing at night.
• Choose the way you want to navigate to use the most freeways, least freeways, fastest time, shortest distance and avoid toll roads. Exclude specific streets or freeways after a route is calculated to get there the way you want.
• Multi-destination routing: Select up to 20 destinations and choose the order to plan a trip in advance and repeat the same trip again. Easily reorganize, add or remove destinations.
• Create and save personal Points of Interest for easy reoccurring trips.
• Navigate up to 3 hours when power is unavailable with its rechargeable battery:
• The Centrality Atlas III processor with integrated GPS receiver provides superior GPS performance for accurate and reliable positioning and navigation within three meters.

What's in the Box
Magellan RoadMate 1412 4.3-inch widescreen portable GPS navigator, adhesive disk for dash mounting, basic cradle, swivel mount, vehicle power adapter (12-24 watts), quick reference guide and CD, alcohol pad

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

237 of 240 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars For $150 it's well worth the money, June 10, 2008

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B. nguyen (Anaheim, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Magellan RoadMate 1412 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator (Electronics)

Pros:
4.3 screen, slim design, good build quality, nice screen, nice graphics, text-to-speech works well, acquire signal fast, uses Navteq map and routing works the way you would expect if you didn't have a GPS and had to map the route yoursself, no round-around routing, has 4 routing options, fastest, shortest, maximum freeway, minimum freeway, a compass is built-in and shown in the upper left corner, plenty of POIs, 6 million of them, good quality windshield mount

This model locks in signal EXTREMELY FAST and it works indoors too



The first time you use you may notice some screen sluggishness but after that it's very responsive, my take is that it might have to do with some kind of first-time initialization

Cons:
No home AC adapter, only car adapter, windshield mount arm is a little short, a bit heavier than most other GPS but probably due to the case but this should not be viewed as a negative


I picked this up at Costco with a $50 off coupon and at $150 this is one of the few GPS on the market that offer text-to-speech, Navteq map and 6 mil POIs. This model uses the Centrality Atlas III GPS chipset which is considered to be even better than the SIRF III chipset

112 of 113 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First GPS, June 7, 2008

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V. St Angelo "Pam" (Forest, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Magellan RoadMate 1412 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator (Electronics)

This is my first GPS. Given the number of options available and brands, I could not decide so I have been shopping for many months. I decided on the Magellan since this is the brand provided by Hertz (neverlost) and I had success with these units in the rentals. What sold me was:

The feature where the unit will complete the spelling for you of objects being searched;

The 4.3" screen;

The huge POI library.

I compared to a Garmin NUVI 260 at Best Buy and it seemed the Garmin spent a lot more time thinking than did the 1412.

The huge POI library was also a plus. I entered many known POI's and the 1412 always displayed them accurately. Finally the 4.3" screen was a seller.

No complaints here and I would recommend it.

123 of 128 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars won't get you lost, September 8, 2008

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John T. Starr (Glendale, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Magellan RoadMate 1412 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator (Electronics)

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.