Magellan RoadMate 6000T 980874-01 3.5-Inch Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator

by Magellan

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4.8 x 1.4 x 3.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000GE1QBM
• Item model number: 980874-01
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (65 customer reviews)

Product Description

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Amazon.com Product Description The Magellan RoadMate 6000T for North America is a remarkably versatile GPS navigation system. Equipped with viewing and entertainment options, cell phone connectivity, and of course navigational coverage for the United States, including Puerto Rico, and Canada, the 6000T meets most of your mobile needs. Loaded with a wide variety of options to help you plan daily commutes, vacation trips, and errands, the 6000T packs advanced technology in an easy-to-use unit to make your driving experience the best it can be.

The 6000T is a complete GPS navigation system with simple touch screen menus, Bluetooth, and turn-by-turn guidance. View more details. See more pictures: Back - Side - Top.

Find your way fast with easy-to-navigate menus.

The unit can also function as a hands-free device for Bluetooth enabled phones.

Play MP3 or WMA files stored on an optional memory card.

Made to be user-friendly, the Magellan 6000T has a 3.5-inch touch sensitive screen that displays vibrant colors and sharp images. Simple menus and smart keys provide quick access to the 6000T's features, which include preloaded detailed maps, bird's eye 3D viewing to give you a clear sense of your surroundings, and over six million points of interest such as gas stations, restaurants, ATMs, airports, parks, historic sites, museums, and much more.

The 6000T lets you select up to 20 destinations and optimize the most direct route between them, as well as store your favorite locations for the trips you take frequently. You can also customize mapping selection with the 6000T, which lets you select routes based on driving time, distance, and traffic congestion, or exclude routes you prefer to avoid, such as toll roads. And with the Auto Re-route feature to guide you, the 6000T adjusts your course if you take a detour, so you be able to get back on track easily even if you miss a turn.

And because the 6000T is equipped with Bluetooth and a microphone, you'll be able to use it for hands-free calling with a Bluetooth-enabled cell phone. You can talk safely while you drive, as you keep up-to-date with what's going on at the office, catch up with friends and family, or give out arrival updates.

The 6000T fits easily into any vehicle without the need for special installation and works for you at any hour of the day. The auto night view feature adjusts brightness and contrast for easy viewing at night, and the voice guidance option provides friendly turn-by-turn instructions to get you to your destination. With SmartVolume adjusting the sound level of your system when you speed up or slow down, the 6000T makes sure that the directions you get are clear and easy to understand. And for the first three months after your purchase of the RoadMate 6000T, you'll have a free subscription to Magellan's LIVE traffic reports. With detailed, up-to-date traffic incident reports at your fingertips, you'll be able to find alternate routes and avoid traffic congestion created by accidents, road construction, special events, and more.

In addition to having the features that make it a first-class navigation system, the 6000T is also a music player and a picture viewer. Through the integrated speaker, the 6000T plays MP3 and WMA music files for your entertainment. And if you're outside your vehicle, you can also plug in a set of earphones to listen. (For safety reasons, please remember never to use earphones while driving.) The picture viewer is ideal for road trips with friends or family as well as for gatherings such as parties and picnics. Upload the pictures you've taken with your digital camera and you'll be able to share a slideshow with everyone right away.

Housed in a high-impact plastic case and able to operate in a temperature range of 14 to 140 degrees Fahrenheit (-10 to 60 degrees Celsius), the 6000T is versatile and durable enough to go wherever you want to go. At 8.64 ounces and measuring 4.8 x 3.8 x 1.4 inches, the navigation system is extremely portable. The update rate of once per second means the 6000T gives you the latest information, and the powerful 1350 mA rechargeable lithium ion battery provides up to four hours of continuous use. Multilingual options make the 6000T perfect for speakers of English, French, and Spanish.

Product Description

The Magellan RoadMate 6000T is the complete solution for people on the go. Intelligently designed for easy right or left hand driving, Magellan RoadMate 6000T provides advanced turn-by-turn voice and visual GPS guidance for worry-free navigation. SayWhere text-to-speech offers the added benefit of hearing the street name for each turn (North America only). Use the touch screen and simple menus to enter an address or select from over six million points of interests to instantly route to virtually any destination. Built-in detailed maps of the U.S. and Canada show your position, destination and route as you travel. The integrated traffic receiver provides LIVE traffic reports so you can easily avoid traffic jams, accidents, road work and more. Your Magellan RoadMate provides warnings along your selected route as you approach an incident. Icons identify the location of traffic issues on the interactive map. Touch an icon to get detailed information about the incident. Your Magellan RoadMate will automatically route you around traffic problems whenever a quicker way is available. Bluetooth wireless technology, built-in microphone and speaker enable you to use your Magellan RoadMate 6000T to make hands-free phone calls using your Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone.Take entertainment on the road with the integrated rechargeable battery, music player and picture viewer. Listen to your favorite tunes, watch a slideshow or navigate when you are away from your vehicle.

Customer Reviews

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96 of 100 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Portable Automobile GPS on the Market, October 10, 2006

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H. Edward Ferguson (Birmingham, AL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Magellan RoadMate 6000T 980874-01 3.5-Inch Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator (Electronics)

I have had the Magellan 6000T now for 2 months and I can't imagine traveling without it. I have traveled for 19 years and made more U-turns than I can shake a stick at.

This system has it all... Blue tooth, spoken street names, easy to navigate touch screen, extremely bright screen (automatically darkens at dusk).

This system gives you more heads up about upcoming turns than any other system on the market. For instance, it will let you of a turn two miles ahead, then one mile, then 0.5 mile. Then it has a 0.2 mile yellow bar graph that shrinks as you come to your turn.

I am very glad I got this system with the spoken street names. It gives you that much more information while you are in unfamiliar territory. The street name voice is a different voice from the turn by turn voice. The street name voice has more of an edge which helps you listen easier to the street name.

It has locked up about 4 times (what high tech electronic gadget never locks up) but it was easy to reboot the system.

One of the best features is the traffic alert. I was in Charlotte, NC which I was unfamiliar with driving during rush hour to the other side of town for a meeting. After I left the hotel, it was directing me turn by turn to the Interstate. While sitting at a red light, I happened to notice it flash "I-85 accident" and then it recalculated the route. I couldn't believe it when I got to the interstate, it had brought me to the entrance ramp just ahead of where all three lanes were blocked because of the wreck!!!!! I was very impressed!

It also gives you four options for choosing your route which is twice as many as any other system.

I did a lot of research looking at the Garmin systems and Tom Tom. I printed out at least half a ream of paper of specifications and customer comments. The more I looked at Magellan, the more I realized it was the best value. I'm sure Garmins are good and they will work, but the Magellan 6000T matched their highest priced Nuvi systems feature for feature and was significantly cheaper.

It is easily portable and easily attaches and detaches to the mount. In the rental cars, I can easily mount it on the windshield. I have never had a problem with the suction mount.

On my Chrysler 300 company car, I use the flat disk and mount the system on the dashboard with no problems.

I do not regret my purchase at all.

If you travel, you need to seriously look at getting a portable GPS system. I would strongly recommend the Magellan 6000T.

It will be analogous to life before and after a microwave.

42 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Device, November 9, 2006

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John G. (SAN FRANCISCO, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Magellan RoadMate 6000T 980874-01 3.5-Inch Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator (Electronics)

I recently used my new 6000T to find my way around LA/Orange County. I would still be trying to escape from the swirling SoCal freeway labrinth back to the relative simplicity of San Francisco had I travelled without it. When I made the occasional error at multiple-choice freeway interchanges, it guided me back on route. It recalculated my route several times to avoid slow traffic -- very helpful in the LA basin where there are alternative freeway routes between most points and all of the freeways are monitored for traffic incidents and speed.

Some of the particularly useful features:
1. A straightforward, intuitive user interface.
2. Almost instantaneous route recalculation when the driver errs in following instructions or when slow traffic is detected.
3. A multi-mode map display that usually manages to portray complex maneuvers clearly, e.g. a sequence of exits.
4. Repetitive voice prompts that permit full attention to the road when traffic is hectic.
5. Complete redundancy of controls between the touchscreen and the peripheral control buttons -- very useful if the touchscreen becomes disabled (as may occur if you install the anti-glare protective screen available on the Magellan website).

What could be better:
1. The voice prompts seem to stop occasionally for no apparent reason.
2. The verbal and textual descriptions should correspond more closely to the text on freeway interchange and exit signage, particularly at the multiple-choice maneuvers.
3. The map isn't quite current -- recent major changes in San Francisco freeway access are not reflected.

A device like this makes driving complex freeway systems with which one is unfamiliar much safer and more efficient than paper maps studied and memorized in advance and supplemented with navigation notes or Mapquest directions, and the 6000T seems designed to maximize these benefits.

By supporting driver attention to traffic demands rather than navigational difficulties, this is an accessory that can save lives. Make sure your next vehicle has an electronic stability control system, and buy one of these.

Update as of 01/27/11 - I'm still using this GPS and I still like it, but not for much longer, I guess, as Magellan seems to have orphaned it: map updates are no longer available, although traffic subscription renewals are. Makes you wonder about those "lifetime" map and traffic options...

53 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not good enough for the price, November 29, 2006

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P. Graham - See all my reviews
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I started with handheld units many years ago, migrated to Streets and Trips and finally decided to get a unit suitable for driving without a co-pilot. My first unit was the garmin nuvi 350 but since it didn't support routes or waypoints I switched to the 6000T. I've been disappointed. The size, quality of the graphics, the voice and general ease of use (ergonomics) are inferior to the nuvi (e.g. moving the map by dragging is effectively impossible and painfully slow even when using the control pad). You need a dedicated (Windows only) program to update the unit since it doesn't emulate a usb mass storage device. Although the screen isn't any larger than the nuvi the unit is enormously larger and heavier. The screen brightness ranges from 100% to say 75%. Good in the daytime but right on the edge of too bright at night. The Bluetooth module finally paired with my phone but won't dial from the screen. The documentation is atrocious but that's typical.

My biggest complaint is the routing. The unit advertises routing with up to 20 waypoints (a multi-point route is called a "trip") but each waypoint is treated like a separate route and the unit stops routing and prompts you whether to proceed at each waypoint. Acceptable if you're stopping for a while but very annoying if you want to use the feature to give the unit hints about places to avoid. Also since it treats each leg of a "trip" separately you don't get an overall time or distance estimate but even though it treats each leg separately you can't set individual routing preferences.

By the way I consider picture viewers and mp3 players a waste of money and resources in a gps unit.

I can get used to the 6000T but for this kind of money one really shouldn't have to get used to something.

I don't really mean for this to sound like a rant but I'm amazed at the difference in perception your expectations will cause. I suppose I'm looking for something like a simplified version of Streets and Trips that costs less than a laptop and doesn't cost $100/year in map updates.