Magellan RoadMate 1430 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator

by Magellan

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 9.8 x 2.1 inches ; 7 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0014L6RH4
• Item model number: Magellan RoadMate 1430
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,156 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Get full turn-by-turn navigation, LIVE traffic capability, 6 million Points of Interest, SayWhere text-to speech, an extra large 4.3-inch wide-format, full color touchscreen and more.

The Magellan RoadMate 1430 has a built-in traffic receiver. LIVE traffic reports appear on the interactive touchscreen with delay advisories for incidents along your route. Your GPS calculates ETA by intelligently factoring traffic flow and prompts you to re-route whenever a quicker way is available. A free 3-month subscription is included. (Fees apply after introductory period.)

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

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.

An expanded Points of Interest database offers 6 million built-in destinations. Find fuel, food, lodging, ATMs, and hundreds of other businesses and services with a few touches of the screen. Plus, built in maps of the entire United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada.

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.

Key Features Include

• Large wide-format 4.3-inch WQVGA color 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.
• Integrated Magellan TrafficKit traffic receiver with 3-month FREE subscription provides real-time traffic updates. Delay advisories along your route appear on the touchscreen with details about the incident. Your Magellan GPS calculates your ETA based on traffic conditions and automatically offers a new route option when there's a quicker way. (Fees apply after introductory period.)
• Easily find what you need with 6 million Points of Interest--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.
• Travel the entire United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada with Expanded NAVTEQ maps--all the maps you need, pre-loaded on the included SD memory card.
• 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 with SayWhere text-to-speech feature.
• Bold, intuitive menu and user interface options make it easy to pick destinations and choose how you navigate, without even reading the instructions.
• Uniquely stylish, thin, and compact making it 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.
• Convenient "tow-truck icon" shows detailed information about your current location with a single touch so you can provide clear direction to roadside assistance.
• Program any location into the "Home" button and find your way back from wherever you are.
• Enter destinations with a few keystrokes with the QuickSpell feature. 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 3-D Birds Eye View feature.
• Never miss a turn and quickly get back on track whenever you take a detour with help from the Auto re-route feature.
• Color and contrast adjusts 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.
• 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 the RoadMate 1430 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 1430 receiver, vehicle power adapter, adhesive disk for dash mounting, windshield mount, basic cradle, preloaded map on SD card, user manual on CD-ROM, quick-start guide, reference manual

Product Description

The Magellan RoadMate 1430 offers a wide-screen interface in an elegant, ultra-thin design, plus integrated live traffic updates, an intuitive, new user interface, and SayWhere technology, which tells drivers the street name of their next turn. All at an entry-level price point that budget-conscious consumers will appreciate.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent so far!, June 5, 2009

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This review is from: Magellan RoadMate 1430 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator (Electronics)

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. It has been great and has guided me to every point without incident. The voice prompts are very clear. 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 POI's are also very cool. It has found every restaurant or drug store I have searched for. The one complaint I have is the outdated map and that is not really the units fault. 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. Overall excellent unit so far..

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best choice for value., March 2, 2009

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Sean R. Riley "~SRfR~" (Drexel Hill, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Magellan RoadMate 1430 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator (Electronics)

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 reroute
Trip planner / Multiple destinations automatically sorts multiple destinations per trip.
Voiced street names announced for every turn including freeways exit/on ramps
and 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.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Bad Software, December 28, 2008

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Stephen H. Spinak "Birdfan" (Annapolis, MD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Magellan RoadMate 1430 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator (Electronics)

From the fastest routing mode, the software installed in this GPS was taking us on local roads with congested traffic instead of keeping us freeways. Fortunately about a month after I bought it, Magellan posted firmware that corrected the problem.