Product Description

The Magellan RoadMate 1430 offers a wide-screen interface in an elegant, ultra-thin design, plus integrated live traffic updates, an intuitive, new user interface, and SayWhere technology, which tells drivers the street name of their next turn. All at an entry-level price point that budget-conscious consumers will appreciate.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1802 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Magellan
• Model: Magellan RoadMate 1430
• Dimensions: 2.10" h x 9.75" w x 5.13" l, 1.40 pounds
• Native resolution: 1024 x 768
• Display size: 4.3

Features

• New 4.3" WQVGA, full-color, anti-glare, touch-screen display
• Integrated Live Traffic Functionality: Includes a free 3-month traffic subscription, which provides real-time traffic updates
• 6 Million Searchable Points of Interest: Customers can easily search for restaurants, hotels, airports, gas stations, and more.
• QuickSpell: intelligently searches and checks spelling when entering addresses
• SmartDetour: prompts drivers to route around heavy or stopped freeway traffic

Amazon.com Product Description
Get full turn-by-turn navigation, LIVE traffic capability, 6 million Points of Interest, SayWhere text-to speech, an extra large 4.3-inch wide-format, full color touchscreen and more.

The Magellan RoadMate 1430 has a built-in traffic receiver. LIVE traffic reports appear on the interactive touchscreen with delay advisories for incidents along your route. Your GPS calculates ETA by intelligently factoring traffic flow and prompts you to re-route whenever a quicker way is available. A free 3-month subscription is included. (Fees apply after introductory period.)

Clear 4.3-inch QVGA color touchscreen shows your position, POIs, route, ETA, and more on the interactive map.

Innovative easy-to-use interface makes it a breeze to find the route to your destination in seconds--without even needing to read the instructions. Click to enlarge.

Adjustable mount for your windshield or dashboard.

An expanded Points of Interest database offers 6 million built-in destinations. Find fuel, food, lodging, ATMs, and hundreds of other businesses and services with a few touches of the screen. Plus, built in maps of the entire United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada.

Use the intuitive menu options to pick your destination and choose how you navigate to virtually anywhere. If you want to stay on the freeway, avoid freeways, travel the shortest distance, or arrive in the quickest time, your Magellan RoadMate enables you to navigate the way you want. You can even exclude specific roads or freeways from your route and also avoid toll roads.

SayWhere text-to-speech tells you street names with every turn-by-turn direction.

The advanced QuickSpell feature intelligently searches addresses and Points of Interest, offering you a simple list of available locations. It even checks spelling so you can enter a destination with just a few touches of the screen.

SmartDetour prompts you to route around sudden slow or stopped freeway traffic and automatically re-calculates the fastest detour.

The integrated rechargeable battery offers navigation for up to three hours. Search destinations, plan trips and enter addresses and personal Points of Interest from a meeting place, restaurant or anywhere power is unavailable.

Key Features Include

• Large wide-format 4.3-inch WQVGA color touchscreen shows your position on the map, route, destination, ETA, surrounding Points of Interest, signal strength, next maneuver, street names, and more at a glance.
• Integrated Magellan TrafficKit traffic receiver with 3-month FREE subscription provides real-time traffic updates. Delay advisories along your route appear on the touchscreen with details about the incident. Your Magellan GPS calculates your ETA based on traffic conditions and automatically offers a new route option when there's a quicker way. (Fees apply after introductory period.)
• Easily find what you need with 6 million Points of Interest--Gas stations, restaurants, hotels, ATMs and hundreds of other businesses and services are intuitively categorized and searchable from the built-in POI database. Most include the phone number.
• Travel the entire United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada with Expanded NAVTEQ maps--all the maps you need, pre-loaded on the included SD memory card.
• Hear street names with every voice direction and have a clear understanding of when to make the next turn while you keep your eyes on the road with SayWhere text-to-speech feature.
• Bold, intuitive menu and user interface options make it easy to pick destinations and choose how you navigate, without even reading the instructions.
• Uniquely stylish, thin, and compact making it easy to transfer your Magellan GPS between vehicles or toss it in a suitcase to take anywhere.
• Select the types of services and amenities you'd like to see and interactive POI icons appear on the map. Touch an icon for a nearby service to see address, phone number (when available) and get an instant route.
• Convenient "tow-truck icon" shows detailed information about your current location with a single touch so you can provide clear direction to roadside assistance.
• Program any location into the "Home" button and find your way back from wherever you are.
• Enter destinations with a few keystrokes with the QuickSpell feature. QuickSpell searches locations and checks spelling to provide you with a simple list of available destinations.
• SmartDetour prompts you to route around suddenly slow or stopped freeway traffic and automatically calculates the quickest detour. No fee or subscription is required!
• Clearly see your surroundings in 2D or 3D with 3-D Birds Eye View feature.
• Never miss a turn and quickly get back on track whenever you take a detour with help from the Auto re-route feature.
• Color and contrast adjusts automatically for easy viewing at night.
• Choose the way you want to navigate to use the most freeways, least freeways, fastest time, shortest distance and avoid toll roads. Exclude specific streets or freeways after a route is calculated to get there the way you want.
• Select up to 20 destinations and choose the order to plan a trip in advance and repeat the same trip again. Easily reorganize, add or remove destinations.
• Create and save personal Points of Interest for easy reoccurring trips.
• Navigate up to 3 hours when power is unavailable with the RoadMate 1430 rechargeable battery.
• The Centrality Atlas III processor with integrated GPS receiver provides superior GPS performance for accurate and reliable positioning and navigation within three meters.

What's in the Box
Magellan RoadMate 1430 receiver, vehicle power adapter, adhesive disk for dash mounting, windshield mount, basic cradle, preloaded map on SD card, user manual on CD-ROM, quick-start guide, reference manual

Customer Reviews

Con: Maps/Addresses don't match! (Pro: It talks to you)
The software on the Magellan 1430 is a bit curious, to say the least: Our subdivision, which has been in existence for over 3 years, shows up on their map data, but NOT in the address database. We can't even enter our 'home' address as a starting point, because it doesn't recognize our street as being in existence, even though it shows it clearly on the map portion of the device! What the heck?!?!?

It would be much easier to use if I could actually enter my home address as a starting location; other than that, on the "pro" side, it talks to you, so you don't have to try and read a screen while driving (yikes!!)

I REALLY hope Magellan gets their software act together soon! If/when they do, this unit would be great, until then its kind of a waste of cash. I would recommend going with Garmon until Magellan can properly synchronize the different types of data information so this unit is actualy usable. What good is having great, up-to-the-minute maps if you can't enter the addresses that correspond with the points on those maps?!?!?

Don't buy
Magellan Customer service is the worst customer service I have ever dealt with. They offer a free 30 day map update since all of their products ship with out of date maps. This would be a good thing except it is in the fine print of their products and their customer support email address that their website list is the wrong address. I had to get through to their customer service by posting a bad review on their website. By the time they responded my unit was beyond the 30 day limit and they refused to give me the update. This is a bad business practice. Garmin has a 60 day guarantee which is posted directly on their website in plain view.

Bad Software
From the fastest routing mode, the software installed in this GPS was taking us on local roads with congested traffic instead of keeping us freeways. Fortunately about a month after I bought it, Magellan posted firmware that corrected the problem.