Magellan RoadMate 1440 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator | 
| Brand: Magellan
Category: CE
List Price: $199.99
Buy New: $95.50
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Seller: cincynow
Rating:  101 reviews
Sales Rank: 2505
Format: CD
Media: Electronics
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Number Of Items: 88
Batteries Included: Yes
Operating System: N/A
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7 x 3.7 x 3.1
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MPN: RoadMate 1440
Model: RoadMate 1440
UPC: 763357122961
EAN: 0763357122961
ASIN: B0021L9C0A
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Text to Speech Announces street names and directions at each turn | | • | Features a 4.3-Inch WQVGA color touch screen | | • | Highway lane assist helps you navigate the interstate | | • | Personalize OneTouch search icons with your favorite places | | • | Features AAA TourBook and Roadside Assistance menu |
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Amazon.com Product Description
The Magellan RoadMate 1440 device boasts the acclaimed OneTouch menu, a 4.3-inch color touch screen, and an ultra-thin design. Preloaded maps and points of interest for the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico make the RoadMate 1440 ideal for both business trips and vacations. Easy-to-use, premium features give you confidence on the road and deliver a powerful navigation experience.  Easy-to-use, premium features give you confidence on the road and deliver a powerful navigation experience. Click to enlarge. |  OneTouch favorites menu affords instant access to your personalized bookmarks of favorite places and searches anywhere you travel. Click to enlarge. |  AAA TourBook provides ratings and descriptions on AAA approved places to stay, play, dine, and save. Click to enlarge. |  Highway lane assist signs show highway signs to point you in the right direction when approaching interchanges and exits. Click to enlarge. |  Multi-destination routing with route optimization lets you plan your trip with multiple stops in the order you want or optimize a trip for the most efficient route, helping you save time and money. Click to enlarge. |  QuickSpell with SmartCity search narrows your address and city searches, making destination entry easy. Click to enlarge. | The Magellan RoadMate 1440 includes many premier features, starting with Magellan's exclusive OneTouch favorites menu, QuickSpell with SmartCity search, and highway exit point of interest (POI) search, to name a few. Magellan's attention to detail delivers a superior user experience. Intuitive and robust navigation
The RoadMate 1440 lets you bookmark your favorite destinations and searches with the OneTouch favorites menu so you can access them anywhere you travel. With a single touch, find your favorite cafe or restaurant when you're traveling within any city. QuickSpell and Smart City search help you quickly enter addresses and narrow your address and city searches, making destination entry easy. Multi-destination routing with route optimization lets you plan your trip with multiple stops in the order you want or optimize a trip for the most efficient route, helping you save time and money. Safety first on the road
You can keep your eyes on the road as you drive because spoken street name guidance announces the street name along with audible turning cues. Highway lane assist offers visual aids to point you in the right direction and ensure that you'll choose the correct lane well before your next turn. Should your vehicle unfortunately break down as you travel, the AAA locate screen provides your location so help will know where to find you. Get support fast with the AAA Member Roadside Assistance1 phone number and your location displayed on the RoadMate 1440 screen. Ready to roll
You're ready to travel with preloaded maps and points of interest for the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico that make the Magellan RoadMate 1440 ideal for both business trips and vacations. (Mexico map activation available for purchase on www.magellangps.com). With millions of points of interest at your command you can easily locate gas stations, restaurants, ATMs, coffee shops, and much more. If you need more information or you want to save money, select the AAA search menu after your search entry. AAA TourBook provides ratings and descriptions on AAA approved places to stay, play, dine, and save. When you're traveling down the Interstate and need to find gas, food, or lodging in a hurry, touch the highway exit POI icon to see which upcoming highway exits have the services you need. Do you often find yourself tied up in traffic? The RoadMate 1440 is Traffic Link compatible, offering live onscreen traffic-incident reports. (The Traffic Link accessory is sold separately). Turn it on and go!
The Magellan RoadMate 1440 is loaded with premier features you'll need to get you where you want to go. Magellan RoadMate 1440 Features - OneTouch favorites menu affords instant access to your personalized bookmarks of favorite places and searches anywhere you travel. With a single touch, find your favorite cafe or restaurant when you're traveling within any city.
- 4.3-inch color touch screen provides powerful navigation that's easy to view and use.
- AAA TourBook provides ratings and descriptions on AAA approved places to stay, play, dine, and save.
- AAA Member Roadside Assistance gets you help fast with a toll-free member service number to assist you in finding an AAA approved tow truck or repair shop. The menu also shows your exact GPS location so you can provide precise information to your location.
- Highway lane assist signs show highway signs to point you in the right direction when approaching interchanges and exits, and ensure that you'll choose the correct lane well before your next turn.
- Spoken street names and directions so you can hear and see where you need to turn next.
- QuickSpell with SmartCity search narrows your address and city searches, making destination entry easy.
- Multi-destination routing with route optimization lets you plan your trip with multiple stops in the order you want or optimize a trip for the most efficient route, saving you time and money.
- Preloaded maps give you information and directions as you travel the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. (Mexico map activation available for purchase on www.magellangps.com).
- Millions of points of interest (POIs) help you easily find gas stations, restaurants, ATMs, coffee shops, and much more.
- Highway exit POIs search shows you gas stations, restaurants, hotels, and more near upcoming highway exits.
- Branded POIs display your favorite coffee shops, restaurants, and more by their respective logos.
- Traffic Link provides live, onscreen traffic notification updates. (This accessory is sold separately).
- Customizable route method lets you select the shortest distance, fastest time, most use of freeways, or least use of freeways to customize your route.
- Address book enables you to create and store contact information.
- Auto night view adjusts your screen's color and contrast for easy night viewing.
- Automatic re-route lets you quickly get back on track in case you missed a turn.
- Plan route on map by simply touching a destination on the map screen and then directly routing to it.
- Rechargeable battery gives you the freedom to drive wireless or plan your trip when your vehicle's engine is turned off.
What's in the Box
RoadMate 1440 GPS receiver, Pre-loaded maps of the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico, Windshield mount, Adhesive disc for dash mounting, Vehicle power adapter, User handbook, USB cable, User manual on CD-ROM 
Product Description
The newly redesigned Magellan RoadMate 1440 GPS device now boasts a 4.3-Inch color touch screen and ultrathin design, delivering powerful navigation in a compact package. This easy-to-use device gives you confidence while on the road with premium features including: AAA TourBook, highway lane assist, spoken street names, multi-destination routing, and pre-loaded maps of North America. Exclusive Magellan OneTouch personalized menu lets you easily bookmark favorite searches and destinations so you can access them anywhere you travel. Find your favorite café or restaurant in any city with a single touch. The oadMate 1440 device delivers your favorites at your fingertips.
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| Customer Reviews:
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A few bugs at first..... July 29, 2010
md
My first time using the product I had a few problems. The unit was turning itself off every 20 min. during the trip. My wife called their customer service while we were still driving. They answered promptly and said that for some reason it was set that way at the factory. In 2min. they had us fixed up so that it wouldnt turn itself off in 20 min. intervals again. ( it was an easy fix in the "tools" section of the gps). On the way back from the trip it started to turn itself off again. This time, after talking to customer service, it was determined that the power cord was defective. They sent me a new one and the unit has worked great since then! It was frustrating at first but no problems since then. I guess it was just one of those things. I still would buy the same gps if I had to do it all over again. Its a great little unit, I'm very happy with it!
 Magellan's poor performance July 16, 2010
D.ob (Bay Area)
Picked it up mainly due to seeing the very clear and easy to read screen. I was a bit apprehensive with Magellan due to owning an older, poorly performing unit. The 1440 is easy to use, but suffered from several severe deficiencies.:
The internal batty doesn't hold a charge ( the same issue my old Magellan had). And there's no battery meter.
The Gps always seems to be late, and playing "Catch up."
The unit, when turned off, still gave directions. It finally stopped when the battery died.
I cannot recommend it.
Very good for the price July 15, 2010
Marty d'Fried (Leftcoast, USA)
I bought two of these last month, one for myself, and one for my son. We both like it a lot. It was his first, and my third, counting one built in to one of my cars. I had a Garmin Nuvi 760 for quite a while, and got rid of it. The Garmin was OK, but not worth the high price. The other is in a 2005 Lexus, and basically sucks as far as usability goes.
This unit basically does everything I need, and does it easily. It is not really any better or worse than others I've used. I like the one-touch shortcuts, the ease of switching from 2D to 3D mode, and the ability to choose between ETA, Time Remaining, Miles Remaining, Time, etc. I mostly use the ETA, which seems pretty accurate so far.
I've noticed a couple of minor annoyances. When entering addresses, it will sometimes pronounce but not register an entry, so you have to pay attention to what is actually entered rather than what it says is entered. I think there is no excuse for this type of error, and it definitely should be fixed. It's simple programming, and whoever did it should be fired, at the very least. I mean, how hard is it to record the entry before pronouncing it?
Another problem is with the freeway assist. On my route home, there is a split in the freeway right before my exit; you must take the left fork, then the exit soon after, on the right. If I have the navigation on, it directs me to take the right fork instead of the left (very clearly). If the navigation is off, it shows the correct lanes for each. So, this makes me lose confidence in this feature, although it only seems to happen for this one instance. I guess it gets confused by the exit coming up, although the exit does not have its own lane.
The satellite reception is a little better than the Garmin, it seems. The Garmin will not work in my house, but this will, at least somewhat. I had them together for a while, so I could test them under the same conditions.
I like that it will operate and charge off my Motorola cell phone charger - I have several of these; it also works off the Garmin's charger, although the Garmin would not work on the Motorola charger (it went into USB mode).
I updated both the firmware and the map right after I got it; there seems to be a bug in their software if you try to do two updates together - it just sat there for hours on the 2nd one, saying not to disconnect it. I did, and reconnecting it did the update right away. This happened for both mine and my son's.
Next week, I'll be driving from SF to Seattle, so I'll see how it works for a long trip.
 Great Gps Great Price July 11, 2010
Sharad Tiwari (long island city, NY USA)
its a great product for the price and value. i have used it for few months now and do not have any technical problem with it yet. I thought Magellan use to make sub-par gps product, but after using this product i have come to know that it make a good gps instuments.
My second review for this product July 11, 2010
M. Thaler (Bkly., Ca)
I thought I left a review a couple months ago for this - but must be somewhere else. We bought it refurbed at CompUSA for $79. I see by recent posts here that new units are on sale at Costco for the same price!
It is quick to set up, logs on to satellites quickly, and seems accurate. The main annoyance (probably very minor for many) is the fact the entry screen does not use the std. QWERTY layout of the keys. Since the screen is larger than my old 3.5 inch GPS,the finding of the keys to press in the non-std. layout "only" adds a few seconds evry time you need to enter an address. It would have been a simple matter to offer a setting option to align the keys in the std. format.
We liked this unit so well, we bought one for a friend and another to put in another o our vehicles. We don't make use of POIs on a GPS. The few times we need to do that we use our Blackberry phones to access Google Maps which are much more thorough and up to the minute than any stand alone GPS
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