Review of Magellan RoadMate 700 3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator
Popularly known as Oprah’s favourite thing for the holidays in 2004, the Magellan roadmate 700 3-inch portable GPS navigator is a powerful device which is quite very popular amongst its competitors. The magellan roadmate 700 model is packed with lots of features and fuctions for a GPS.
It doesn’t stop there, but it gets better and better each year. Although the previous version of magellan was found lacking in accessory, the current version comes packed with extra accessories like a 12 DV power plug, windshield suction cup mount, 110V AC power supply, universal cradle, serial data cable and an owners manual.
The magellan roadmate 700 offers you a voice prompt, turn to turn navigation which allows you to concentrate more on your navigation especially when on a busy roads. It gives you the names of approaching or favourite point of interests, thereby saving you the stress of looking at the screen for direction. With this device, you can navigate through known and unknown places, that it has already preloaded with maps of the US and Canada. You can also download map of Europe through the Magellan websites from your computer using the provided serial data cable.
As a GPS device, the magellan roadmate 700 can be said to be equipped with the most enhanced GPS navigation technology. It is WAAS enabled and receives WAAS reception, which gives you up to 3 meters accurate data. The device has a touchscreen input with a bright and coloured TFT LCD display and also offers multiple ways to find your desired routes which are viewable on the screen.
The magellan roadmate 700 is quite portable and always ready to go as soon as it’s unpacked because it already has everything you need from a GPS device and even more. The 20 GB of built-in memory has detailed preloaded maps of the US and most populated areas of Canada, offering you the ability to effortlessly import addresses from your PDA which has IrDA capabilities and the device can help you get to those addressess. The device can create 3 track logs with space to save up to 100 addresses, each making it a total of 300 addresses. The device has feature to help you go back easily if you so desire. To use this device, all you simply need to do is mount it using the windshield suction cup hardward, then plug-in using the cigarette lighter adapter or better still charge it up with the power cord. This is mostly for older model car without cigarette lighter power adapter.
The magellan roadmate 700 3-inch portable GPS navigator is like a virtual pilot, as it constantly displays your current position due to its satellite lock capabilities. You can also look up so many point of interest from this, and the device offers you 4 ways of getting to your point of interest which are either the routes with the fewest use of freeways, most freeways, shortest route or shortest distance. You can also create new routes with the help of the device especially when going to a destination which is not a recognised point of interest.
In conclusion, the magellan roadmate is an excellent GPS navgation tool, which is quite easy to use and operate because of its intuitive easy-to-read user interface, clear and undistracting voice prompts, bright and readable colored screen even when directly under the sunlight and preloaded maps of different point of interest. Although the price can be said to be a bit on the high side but you’ve got to admit that this is a pretty awesome device. Get these device at cheaper rate for both new and used from ebay.com, and amazon.com.
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