Product Description

Thales Navigation is one of the world's leading innovators of global satellite positioning, navigation, and guidance equipment with operations throughout the U.S. and Europe. Known for its popular Magellan , MLR, Ashtech , and DSNP brands, Thales Navigation offers a broad range of navigation and positioning solutions for consumers and professional customers around the world. Now streamlining its portfolio of brands to maximize marketing resources, Thales Navigation will offer all of its consumer products under the Magellan brand and all of its professional solutions under the Thales Navigation brand.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #110848 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Magellan
• Model: 360 North America
• Dimensions: 2.00 pounds

Customer Reviews

Amazing!
Just purchased the roadmate 360 last night, very impressed!

I took it out of the box in the parking lot of the store. Took a quick look for any cautionary notices on the paper work that it was packed with. Found none that pertained to the safety of the unit its self. I then pluged it into my cigarette lighter hit the on button. And within a couple of seconds it pinpointed where I was. I then tinkered with the touch screen for a few moments and was able to program my home address.

Low and behold it gave me perfect directions right to my garage door.

I am still playing with it now, one feature I found that is histerical. When you choose languages, you get two English choices. One with an American accent the other sounds. Australian.

True, but all kidding aside. This is really fun and very useful. My brother has a built in system in his Acura MDX. That system is awsome! The pros to his system is that it is built in and provides a huge screen.

However you can't take it with you, when you are in another vehicle. The 360 seems to do everything his does in just a little smaller scale.

I will re review in a couple of weeks, after some more play time.

I did try to call the tech support line for this GPS before purchasing, however was unable to get even basic answeres.

I'm not sure how I will do if I really need tech support.

For the time being Im very please!




Review Update.



I still feel the same way as the above review. In the meantime I also purchased a Garmen Street Pilot C340 which seemed to have features that the Magellin lacked. I will refere to the Garmen As "gar" and the Magellin to "mag"

Both units work well, however I feel much more confident with mag. for instance, when you are drivng along mag will tell you to prepare to turn on the right, lets say about a half mile in advance.

Then as you get closer to your turn, she will remind you again, at that time the screen splits in half and a very! obvious right arrow in this case appears.

Along with the split screen, depending on how fast you are traveling, a bar graph similuar to what you see when your uploading files on a computer appears toward the bottom of the screen.

It starts out bright Yellow then turns to black as you approach the exact point at which to turn.

The unit also chimes which lets you know that you are to turn right now!

I think that feature is priceless. It's impossible to miss your turn. It is always dead accurate. Another example of what mag offers. Let's say you are driving on a long stretch of highway, and are in a pretty big hurry to get to your final destination, but you see a great photo op.

You can mark that spot and return back to it at a later date. I don't believe that gar will do that. I think that feature is way nice!

Mag's windshield mount is ok as long as you bent it in such a way that mag herself is resting on the dash. If not she will bounce up and down like a bobble head doll. Her touch screen is not always perfect to the touch, but if she does not get any worse, I will be fine with her.

You can also quick scroll via actual hard buttons as well as touch screen. I find the buttons useful.

I like the fact that mag allows you to customize your display so as to show you little icons of certain points of interest. i.e. gas stations, stores ect ect. along your route.

Mag also allows you to advance the map up you travel route in order to see where these places are, as well as all the curves on the road ahead.

As for gar? gar's windshield mount is fantastic! gar looks great above the dash. Gar has an internal battery, which means you can run gar in the car or anywhere for hours without being attached to a power cord. Though gar does not come with a home A/C charger you can slowly charge gar's internal battery by hooking it up to your P/C via USB plug provided.

You can also use gar in other countries by purchasing additional interfaces, something I don't think you can do with mag. Gar also knows when it is dark outside and will adjust his display to compinsate, unlike mag whom you have to go into a menu system in order to dim the screen. Gar also has a dimmer control on screen at all times, he too has a volume adjustment on the side two items that I think are hands down better than mag.

I travel between San Francisco and Palm Springs weekly, It usually takes mag about 15 min to aquire her bearings, I have not taken gar down there yet. I will next week, and will be able to see how long he takes.

As for re-routing they both are about the same, I have been running both side by side in my car for the last week.

gar has in some cases asked me to make a u turn in the same area that mag says keep going and turn on the next turn, which tells me that gar is putting you through an unecessary u turn process.

As for gar's voice to speech feature. It's novel, but I find myself wanting to look up at street signs before making my turns.

Many citys, such as san francisco have street signs that are hidden. So I find myself looking for the sign rather than the road.

If gar had the last min before turn split screen feature as well as the bargraph showing you precisly when your turn is coming up and the turn chime. It would kill mag.

Gar also offers an upgrade to aquire real time traffic reports, however it again is a pricey part and involves haveing it installed into your car's existing antenna system. It also requres an ongoing montly fee.

I think though gar looks great on my dash and is truly a very nice product. Unfortunatly I find mag safer to be with in unfamiluar territory. She too is a couple of hundered dollars cheaper.

I know too that in a year or so, the prices will come down a whole lot. And one of these two companys will offer a GPS that has both of these features I find to be very important.

I will probably return gar and stick with mag.

I hope this was of some help.

Useless garbage!!
I've been using the Garmin 360 to navigate my service truck for two weeks.

Magellan's address entry method makes the unit completely worthless for many destinations. In some cases you must enter the township name instead of the city name. For example, Coca-Cola Fountain, 7551 Schantz Rd, Allentown PA. It asks for the street name first. Then it asks for the city name. It says Schantz Rd is not found in Allentown. The only way to enter the address is by entering Upper Macungie Twp instead of Allentown. More than half of the addresses I've entered have been this way including my home address. Unfortunately the township names are not commonly known. Magellan tech says this is normal and there is no update for it. Absolutely unacceptable! I've tested a Garmin and it accepts addresses in the normal postal form.

Processor speed is awefully slow. If you miss an exit on the freeway it will automaticly recalculate the route. Many times the recalculation will ask you to exit at the next ramp, but by the time it's done calculating you've already passed the exit. On a freeway with many exits this can go on for a long time unless you pull to the side of the road and wait for it to finish calculating.

Accuracy is not good. Even with good satellite reception, the map is often several hundred feet to as much as 1 mile behind my actual location. This could be due to the slow processing speed or poor position accuracy, I'm not sure. I often have made a turn before the audible or visual cues from the GPS alert me to. Other times it's right on target, but it surely isn't reliable if you don't know where you're going.

"Shortest Time" routing is not very short. I can't figure this one out. The destination could be straight ahead on the same road your traveling, but the "shortest time" routing would have you turning off and manuevering through city side streets to get there.

Route Exclusion allows you to route around a particular manuever in the suggested route. But any time you deviate from the route, ie to stop for food or gas, wrong turn, etc, it recalculates the route and includes the excluded street. Every time it recalculates the route you must go to the list and exclude that one street again, which could be several times even on a short trip with this thing. For this same reason, you can only exclude one route. In fact it will not exclude any certain street, only a manuever. For instance, you may wish to exclude a turn on to a busy road. You can exclude the turn, but it may just have you turn onto the same street at a different location a few blocks down.

After sitting in a hot car for as little as 30 minutes it doesn't power up. The only way to make the unit work again seems to be to let it cool off in front of the A/C vent.

The touch screen malfunctions more often than I like. Sometimes a touch to one part of the screen will activate a function at a totally different part of the screen. Sometimes the display will lock-up for several seconds or minutes.

Overall, this thing has been absolutely useless, and most times it just makes me mad. I'm going to try a Garmin.

Great price, feature rich and accurate
I just purchased a refurbished unit for and out of the box, the Roadmate 360 just simply works. It's really easy to use. I was incredibly surprised at how easy it was to use.

It's one of the lowest priced GPS out on the market and since I am new to all of this, I decided to start off 'cheap' and upgrade to something nicer when the need comes. Looking at the Roadmate 360, it looks like it has everything that I could possibly want!

I compared the Roadmate 360 to a comprably priced Garman and the main benefit for me is having a larger screen with touch screen input. Below is a list of what I have found.

Pros:
-Good screen-bright and clear
-Good volume control
-Accurate directions with enough time warning for each direction
-When you take a wrong turn, the unit quickly recalculates for you.
-I like having a touch screen for data input.
-I really like the features where you can turn on/off the various points of interests.
-Good size and weight. Not too big and the screen is large enough for a quick glimpse.

Cons:
-Connecting to the satalite sometimes is slow (1 to 5 mins for me). I wish this thing has a build in battery.
-Touch screen input recognition is sometimes slow. Occasionally, I have a problem where the incorrect letter/number is entered. There are occasional lags in between entries.
-Volume for the "beeps" changes occasionally when I'm switching between menus.
-The circular navigation button doesn't have a great tactile feel like the others.
-The unit bounces when mounted on the stand. I wish the mount was made with a heavier grade plastic so that it wouldn't wobble as much.
-Power cord could be longer. I have a van and the cigarette lighter is pretty low.