Magellan RoadMate 1424 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator

by Magellan

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 0.7 x 4.8 x 3.2 inches ; 5.4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B002NEFXQW
• Item model number: RM1424SGXUC
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (99 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,892 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

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 Easily bookmark favorite destinations and searches with personalized bookmarks so you can find them anywhere you travel. Find your favorite cafe or restaurant in any city with a single touch. Simple navigation with "Your favorites at your fingertips."
	Exclusive AAA TourBook Guide No membership required... Invaluable to anyone who travels, the AAA TourBook guide information with all 50 states and Canada is built right into your Magellan product. Get ratings and descriptions on AAA approved places to stay, play, dine, and save.
	4.3-inch Touch Screen The large, ultra-slim 4.3-inch color touch screen shows your position on the unit including map route, destination, ETA, Points of Interest (POI), OneTouch favorites, street names, and more--all at a glance. Click to view full-size image.
	6 Million Points of Interest (POI) Easily find whatever service you need. Gas stations, restaurants, hotels, ATMs, and hundreds of other businesses are intuitively categorized and searchable from the built-in POI database.
	Highway Exit POI Search Search for gas stations, restaurants, hotels, and more near upcoming highway exits.
	QuickSpell with SmartCity Search Enter destinations with only a few touches. QuickSpell with SmartCity search helps you quickly enter addresses and narrow location searches, making destination entry easy.
	Multi-destination Routing Plan a trip with multiple stops in the order you want or have the device optimize it for the most efficient route. Easily reorganize, add, or remove destinations.
	Spoken Street Names Hear street names and directions for a clear understanding of when to make the next turn while you keep your eyes on the road.

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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

111 of 114 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Nav, January 9, 2010

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D. Thompson (Menlo Park, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Magellan RoadMate 1424 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator (Electronics)

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.

85 of 86 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent value, March 11, 2010

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J. J. Weiss - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Magellan RoadMate 1424 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator (Electronics)

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.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars RoadMate1424, January 17, 2010

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DiGi in NC "Southern girl" (Raleigh, NC USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Magellan RoadMate 1424 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator (Electronics)

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!

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