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Product Specifications
Edition: 1424 Standard
Display Size4.3 inches
Battery Life2 hours
Technical Details
Edition: 1424 Standard
- Ultra-slim 4.3-inch color touchscreen GPS with premium navigation features
- Includes maps of United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico with 6 million points of interest
- Features multi-destination routing, spoken street names, AAA TourBook, and more
- Search for gas stations, restaurants, hotels, and more near upcoming highway exits--QuickSpell with SmartCity search makes destination entry easy
- One-year limited warranty
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Product Description
Edition: 1424 Standard
Amazon.com Product Description
Navigate in style with the new, ultra-thin Magellan RoadMate 1424 GPS device with a large 4.3-inch color touch screen. Additional premium features include: OneTouch favorites menu, built-in AAA TourBook and Member Roadside Assistance, maps of the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. QuickSpell with SmartCity search, highway exit POI, spoken street names, and more!
With convenient features the Magellan RoadMate 1424 GPS navigator delivers a powerful navigation experience for everyday drivers.
FEATURES
 | Exclusive OneTouch Favorites Menu |  |
 | Exclusive AAA TourBook Guide |  |
 | 4.3-inch Touch Screen |  |
 | 6 Million Points of Interest (POI) |  |
 | Highway Exit POI Search |  |
 | QuickSpell with SmartCity Search |  |
 | Multi-destination Routing |  |
 | Spoken Street Names | |
What's in the Box
Magellan RoadMate 1424 GPS receiver; pre-loaded maps of United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico; windshield mount; adhesive disc for dash mounting; vehicle power adapter; user handbook.
Product Description
Navigate in style with the new, ultra-thin Magellan RoadMate 1424 GPS device with a large 4.3-inch color touch screen. Additional premium features includes OneTouch favorites menu, built-in AAA TourBook and Member Roadside Assistance, maps of the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. QuickSpell with SmartCity search, highway exit POI, spoken street names, and more.
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Edition: 1424 Standard
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
89 of 90 people found the following review helpful
Edition:1424 Standard
First, I owned a Magellan Maestro 3100, basic earlier generation unit. I much preferred the usability of the interface to the Garmin & Tom Tom equivalents. The Roadmate 1424 improves and addresses virtually all my annoyances with the older series.
Pros:
Acquires signal very fast
Recalculates routes so fast you barely notice (and it no longer announces "recalculating", just does it).
Allows you to "insert" and immediately route to any POI or destination, then continue to original destination.
Shows graphic map and estimated time for all 4 routing 'options' making it much easier to select your choice (I'd prefer exact distance to estimated time, but it's pretty good).
Routing is faster and shortest route now tends to avoid unpaved roads (I live in a rural area).
Has 2nd generation of their One Touch interface (2 screens worth of programmable icons)
Having applied their 2.20 firmware upgrade, it has never reset, frozen or gone into 'calculating' mode like some report on the 1440 & 1470.
Cons:
Position tends to lag 10-20 yards behind actual position, a problem the entire 14** series seems to have, Magellan is aware and a firmware upgrade to cure this is expected.
If you like to fiddle with different voices, forget it, no choices and no memory slot, but it already has the largest/newest POI file Magellan offers.
It's just a GPS, doesn't play music, doesn't show vids, doesn't bake pizza.
Pros:
Acquires signal very fast
Recalculates routes so fast you barely notice (and it no longer announces "recalculating", just does it).
Allows you to "insert" and immediately route to any POI or destination, then continue to original destination.
Shows graphic map and estimated time for all 4 routing 'options' making it much easier to select your choice (I'd prefer exact distance to estimated time, but it's pretty good).
Routing is faster and shortest route now tends to avoid unpaved roads (I live in a rural area).
Has 2nd generation of their One Touch interface (2 screens worth of programmable icons)
Having applied their 2.20 firmware upgrade, it has never reset, frozen or gone into 'calculating' mode like some report on the 1440 & 1470.
Cons:
Position tends to lag 10-20 yards behind actual position, a problem the entire 14** series seems to have, Magellan is aware and a firmware upgrade to cure this is expected.
If you like to fiddle with different voices, forget it, no choices and no memory slot, but it already has the largest/newest POI file Magellan offers.
It's just a GPS, doesn't play music, doesn't show vids, doesn't bake pizza.
113 of 117 people found the following review helpful
Edition:1424 Standard|Amazon Verified Purchase
Although I have owned an in vehicle navigation product that was built-in to a car, this was my first time with an aftermarket navigation system. The navigation is excellent and satellite acquisition is quick. The display is good, but in the brightest sunlight is a bit challenging to see. This isn't necessarily a fault unique to this product.
Overall the most impressive thing about this unit is it's size and build quality. So compact yet with maps for the entire US and North America.
I think that it should have come with an in-home plug-in charger in addition to the in car charger, but that's my pet peeve.
One of the larger omissions (IMHO) was not stating on the box or in the literature that updating the software and maps in the navigation unit requires a Windows PC. It can NOT be updated via any Apple computers. Ouch!
Finally, I am told the map updates are around $80. Sounds steep, but considering what it takes to update a digital map of the entire US, a fairly cheap price. And frankly, unless you are driving somewhere that has brand new roads, you won't notice the difference. You could just wait and buy an entirely new unit every few years for not much more money. But I actually believe that it's a good idea to support the updating of the maps by purchasing an update.
The technical support I received (when I had a question about how to switch the map from 2D to a 3D view and back) was very competent, and surprised me considering the initial purchase price of the unit. Magellan seems to have good people and customer friendly policies.
Overall the most impressive thing about this unit is it's size and build quality. So compact yet with maps for the entire US and North America.
I think that it should have come with an in-home plug-in charger in addition to the in car charger, but that's my pet peeve.
One of the larger omissions (IMHO) was not stating on the box or in the literature that updating the software and maps in the navigation unit requires a Windows PC. It can NOT be updated via any Apple computers. Ouch!
Finally, I am told the map updates are around $80. Sounds steep, but considering what it takes to update a digital map of the entire US, a fairly cheap price. And frankly, unless you are driving somewhere that has brand new roads, you won't notice the difference. You could just wait and buy an entirely new unit every few years for not much more money. But I actually believe that it's a good idea to support the updating of the maps by purchasing an update.
The technical support I received (when I had a question about how to switch the map from 2D to a 3D view and back) was very competent, and surprised me considering the initial purchase price of the unit. Magellan seems to have good people and customer friendly policies.
23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Edition:1424 Standard|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is my first GPS. It seems durable, I've dropped it a few times in the car and thrown it in my purse and it still works. Fortunately, it is easy to use, it did not come with a very thorough user's manual (more like a leaflet). I'm still learning some of its features, through trial and error. I like that it gives me audible instructions (2 mile advance notice) on what direction I'll be turning so I can make the lane shifts and there is a visual cue in upper left corner. I like that it accepts multiple destinations. All in all, I am very satisfied and since having it I have not been lost!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Great GPS, with just a few minor cons
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Published 1 month ago by Allen Seigel
Nice and cheap
Nice and cheap device, the installation was very easy and quick, don't have any extra features like traffic updates but the price was very good. AAA guide is also very helpful.
Published 1 month ago by gregory
Happy and Excited
I purchased the Magellan as a gift for my daugther. She is so very thrilled
with her gift that works well. It was money well spent. Shopping at Amazon was easy
and quick. Read more
with her gift that works well. It was money well spent. Shopping at Amazon was easy
and quick. Read more
Published 1 month ago by LasVegasMom
Best little GPS for the money
I purchased this GPS because my daughter in law bought it and it workes fine for what we need. I didnt need anything fancy, just something to get me to places I had never been... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Seventries
excellent product !
i have an old magellan that no longer has any sound, but otherwise still works great , and a garmin that i can't stand. Read more
Published 2 months ago by strbildr
Upgrade from old Magellen
Works great. We thought with it being a newer model the maps would have been upgraded. The software that runs on the product is much improved! I upgraded the units maps. Read more
Published 3 months ago by gbair
Very Nice
I would purchase this again. I may get a second one for my other truck, so that alone should tell you that I am happy with it.
Published 4 months ago by JonPop
Good Navigation
I am in sales and use this all the time. It always is efficient and is very easy to use. I really love having it and would definitely recommend it to a friend.
Published 4 months ago by Debbie
Magellan Roadmate 1424 4.3 inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator
I love Magellan GPS navigator items. This model is a replacement model that I had to buy which was a little lower level of my previous one that I had gotten as a gift several... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Jacqueline Pray Miller
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