Magellan RoadMate 1430 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Traffic

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 9.8 x 2.1 inches ; 1.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0014L6RH4
• Item model number: Magellan RoadMate 1430
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #27,794 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 23, 2008

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

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Newbie - See all my reviews

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:

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

By	Stephen H. Spinak "Birdfan" (Annapolis, MD) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Con: Maps/Addresses don't match! (Pro: It talks to you), January 12, 2009

By	twinsmom "Dawn" (Phoenix, AZ) - See all my reviews

The software on the Magellan 1430 is a bit curious, to say the least: Our subdivision, which has been in existence for over 3 years, shows up on their map data, but NOT in the address database. We can't even enter our 'home' address as a starting point, because it doesn't recognize our street as being in existence, even though it shows it clearly on the map portion of the device! What the heck?!?!?

It would be much easier to use if I could actually enter my home address as a starting location; other than that, on the "pro" side, it talks to you, so you don't have to try and read a screen while driving (yikes!!)

I REALLY hope Magellan gets their software act together soon! If/when they do, this unit would be great, until then its kind of a waste of cash. I would recommend going with Garmon until Magellan can properly synchronize the different types of data information so this unit is actualy usable. What good is having great, up-to-the-minute maps if you can't enter the addresses that correspond with the points on those maps?!?!?