Magellan RoadMate 1440 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator
- 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
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 s… More >>
Source Magellan RoadMate 1440 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator
Categories: Car Electronics & GPS
Magellan 1440 GPS Roadside………Nothing functioned …..Power cable was defective and replaced. Then, the main GPS Unit did not function. It to, was replaced. But I had to pay the shoipping of the unit to their repair/replacement facility. Sorry, but why are all the ‘service facility employee’s from India. Langage is sometimes difficult to understand, but they were very very polite. Lots of time to finally get an operational GPS Unit.
Rating: 1 / 5
Unit would display same error message after entering location. Sent to magellan. Can back with same problem. Even worse. I purchase a Gamin 255W & love it.
Rating: 1 / 5
We had a Garmin stolen and replace it with the Magellen Roadmate 1440 due to some discounts from AAA.
It is horrible! The main problem is that, if you have moved at all since the last time you shut it off, it takes 3-7 minutes (I’ve timed it) to find a new signal. This is even if you moved 1 mile! How is that possible? My cell phone is 5 yrs old and takes 30 seconds to find a signal once I turn it on. So you have to have the car and the machine on for about 5 minutes before it will start to give you directions. Unless you are going on a long trip or use it every time you drive, this often makes it more trouble than it’s worth. Plus, after 5 minutes, you have to pull over to tell it where you want to go, the place you are probably half way to already.
Next, navigating the menu is much less intuitive than the Garmin. I still can’t find a way, if there is one, to view an overall map of the planned route. Even the way it gives directions is not as helpful as the Garmin. In the city, you may be 4 blocks away from your turn. It will say “approaching left turn in 0.4 miles”. Then the machine will not say anything else until it beeps when you are right at the intersection.
If you’ve never had a GPS, this machine might seem like a fun toy or tool.
Next time, try a Garmin, and you’ll realize what you’ve been missing.
Rating: 1 / 5
I have several GPS as we have several cars and I hate to constantly take out of one car and put in next. This is a great machine. I love the talking advantage over the others, it helps to know when and exactly where you are turning. This little machine does it all. It s great. If you want to get somewhere and get there fast and without difficulty and around the town one or more times this is the machine for you.
Rating: 4 / 5
I am an experienced gps user with multiple units in airplanes and cars. I bought a Magellan RoadMate 1440 gps to use in another vehicle after reading good reviews on the Amazon web site.
I bought the unit in mid-February 2010 and didn’t get a chance to use if for a couple of weeks. When I finally got it out of the box and fired it up, I was impressed with it’s size and ease of operation. I went on a long trip and programmed my destination. After a couple of hours of travel the unit shut down and rebooted itself. I had to reprogram the destination and after a while it suddenly went off, even though the pwer was still connected.
I thought it must be a fluke and gave it another several chances, but it just kep rebooting and/or shutting down. I called Magellan and waited for tech support for about half an hour. When they finally picked up, they went through all kinds of gyrations for an apparently defective unit.
I finally convinced them that the unit was indeed defective, and they wanted to send me a factory reconditioned unit to replace the brand new unit I’d just bought. I told them this was not acceptable and requested a supervisor. After another half an hour they finally agreed to send me a new one, but not before switching me to another operator. I then had to go over the whole process again to get a new unit shipped to me. I also had to give them my credit card before they would send out the new unit.
I hope they are honorable enough to actually send me out a new unit. I guess I have learned my lesson and will buy another Garmin unit the next time, even though I’ll have to spend more. Magellan could learn some lessons from Garmin support. In my experience, Garmin bends over backwards to make their customers happy.
Rating: 1 / 5