Magellan RoadMate 3000T Portable GPS Navigator and MP3 Player

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Label: Magellan
Publisher(s):

Magellan

Studio: Magellan
Manufacturer: Magellan
Binding: Electronics
Brand: Magellan 3000T
Model: 980859-01
MPN: 980859-01
List Price: $649.99
Feature(s):

Compact vehicle GPS navigator with preloaded U.S. and Canada base maps
3.5-inch color touchscreen display automatically switches to night view in dark conditions
4 GB memory for maps and custom points of interest; Secure Digital (SD) card slot
8 direct-access keys, plus power, volume, repeat, and reset buttons; 3D birds-eye map view
Built-in patch antenna; measures 4.8 x 3.8 x 1.4 inches (W x H x D); 1-year warranty

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

High-output TFT color display / Integrated MP3 / Built-in 4 GB hard drive for US, Canada and other maps / Improved swivel windshield mount

Amazon.com Product Description

It's time to really get in the driver's seat with a new generation of vehicle navigation devices from Magellan. With a large, 3.5-inch color touch screen and buttons for one-touch access to key features, the Magellan RoadMate 3000T is intelligently designed to make GPS navigation easier than ever.

Enter an address and get turn-by-turn voice guidance, while the built-in dynamic map shows your location, destination and route in traditional or "birds-eye" 3D for a clear view of your surroundings. Touch an on-screen icon for information about nearby services and get routed there instantly. Magellan's SmartDetour technology routes you around stopped freeway traffic. And because the 3000T is traffic-ready, you can simply add the Magellan TrafficKit to get live traffic incident reports. Plus, the unit features a built-in music player, photo viewer and rechargeable battery so you can take your entertainment on the road.

Design
The 3000T features a sleek and compact design for optimum portability. A large touch screen and buttons offer access to key features and the universal configuration gives easier access to buttons whether you're right or left handed. The unit tracks up to 12 GPS satellites simultaneously and uses the high performance SiRF Star III solution for optimal signal acquisition. It's also WAAS enabled, further enhancing positioning accuracy.

Lightweight and completely portable, the 3000T is easily transferred from one vehicle to another, so you can take it with you wherever you go. The built-in rechargeable battery lets you continue routing or listen to music or view pictures when unplugged, and its compact size and light weight enable you to easily take it with you on business trips or vacations. Vehicle installation couldn't be easier; choose from a selection of mounting accessories, plug in the power cord, and you are ready to turn it on and go

When you're traveling at night you'll appreciate that the displayed map background color switches to night view at sundown, and back to day view in the morning. Another function, SmartVolume, automatically increases the unit's volume at speeds over 45 MPH so voice and audio prompts are always at the right level for maximum clarity.

Navigation
Easy-to-use guidance screens Navigation with the 3000T starts with the unit's super bright, high-resolution display screen with bold and easy-to read icons and text. Your route is clearly highlighted, and you can zoom in or out on a detailed map. Touch the 3D map icon anytime to switch between a three-dimensional representation that gives a bird's-eye view of the road ahead and the more traditional 2D map view. Plus, you can select from nine different color combinations to personalize your view.

The Maneuver List gives you a detailed list of streets and turns; touch a street on the list to exclude it from your route and instantly calculate a new route. Meanwhile, the TrueView 3D function offers a detailed, enlarged view of the road layout for upcoming turns and information about intersection maneuvers. Dynamic turn-by-turn voice guidance tells you when to make the next turn, while an automatic map zooms in to show your highlighted turn and switches to TrueView 3D so you can confirm the direction at a glance.

Route optimization is a breeze with the 3000T. Let the unit guide you on an optimized trip with several destinations. First, use the Trip Planner to enter addresses or select points of interest (POI). You choose the order or let Route Optimization feature calculate the quickest route between each point from your present location. Add and subtract destinations as you go, and save your Trip to repeat the same route again.

When traffic slows or stops on the freeway, SmartDetour will automatically calculate a detour and ask you if you'd like to route around the congestion. You can turn the feature on and off, or personalize the settings for the maximum distance you'd like to detour. You may also choose to detour anytime by touching the enter button while you are in an active route, even on city streets to route around road work, closed roads, flooded streets or stopped traffic. Whenever you decide to take a detour or go off course, your Magellan RoadMate automatically calculates a new route as you drive.

Add the Magellan TrafficKit to receive live traffic incident reports that appear on the dynamic touch screen map. Touch an onscreen icon to view detailed information about the incident. You can also automatically reroute around accidents, slow-downs, road work, severe weather conditions and more. The TrafficKit service will be available in the Summer of 2006 and it will require a subscription.

And last but not least, a touch of a button shows the information about your present location so you can easily direct emergency services and roadside assistance to you. Or, save this location to your address book to easily route back to it later.

Maps and POIs
Built-in, detailed maps of the 50 United States, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and Canada enable you to travel the country with no need to download new data. A single seamless database built in to the hard drive contains all major city streets as well as federal, state, and county roads and highways. Detailed maps of 27 European countries are also pre-loaded and can be unlocked for a fee.

An easy-to-use database of over six million POIs includes addresses and even phone numbers, in most cases, for businesses, services, parks, lakes, airports and more. It's simple to find the nearest restaurants, gas stations, ATMs, and more, wherever you travel. A simple touch-screen menu makes it easy to choose a location by category or sub-category. So if you want to find the nearest Chinese restaurant, just touch the screen. You can also store up to 200 personal or business destinations. QuickSpell intelligently sorts, searches, and checks spelling for rapid address entry with minimal keystrokes, accelerating your data entry by matching letters to the available destinations.

Entertainment
The 3000T make sit easy to take the fun with you wherever you go. Magellan RoadMate Manager Tools software enables you to easily transfer your MP3 and WMA files from your computer to a memory card (SD or MMC) that can be inserted into your Magellan RoadMate 3000T for hours of music entertainment. You can also transfer your favorite photos from your PC onto memory card using the Magellan RoadMate Tools application and view them on the full-color display.

Customer Reviews

Stay away from Magellan Products

Stay away from this GPS (and Magellan products as a whole) for the following reasons:

1) The GUI is confusing; the screen where you type in the address of where you want to go is extremely hard to find. Amazingly, its not one of the actual buttons on the unit.

2) This company was notified of problems registering serial numbers (for firmware updates and map updates) over a year ago and the same problem persists. From what I have read, other people have had a nightmare of a time with their support resolving the issue; I didnt bother.

3) Update maps are almost $70, which is almost the cost of the entire bulky, oversized unit now.

I've used better.

We use this unit at work, and I take it around the country. When it works, it's right on. However, it takes some getting used to.

The menus are not intuitive. The power on/off/powersave function is awkward. Sometimes system locks and you have to restart the system. Previous destinations buried under "Address Book."

I'd look elsewhere.

Probably not the best out there

I have ZERO sense of direction so this has served it's purpose. It does have a bit of a delay when missing a turn and needed to recalculate. If your car is parked in a parking garage and then you pull out and want to use it right away...it has worked for me...I have to drive around for a few minutes before it picks up signal. Other then that the colors are great, it's easy to learn, great volume. I'm sure there are other Nav systems way better but I'll keep this one and use it.

They charge for updates

When I first received this product, many maps were already out-of-date. Magellan makes updates that are supposed to fix both the bugs in their original software and to add more maps. Usually, when you have some sort of product that relies upon software, normal updates are free, for example, Windows Service Packs 1 and 2. However, despite how much Magellan charges for this product, they also charge for updates. This is particularly unfair since the updates, according to the Magellan web site, fix bugs in the original program. I would have to pay $ 80.00 for an update. I'm not going to pay it. When the maps finally get too out-of-date, I will buy another GPS device from a manufacturer that provides their updates without charge. Garmin doesn't charge for updates. I haven't checked anywhere else yet. Despite the lack of updates, the Magellan works reasonably well.

Company Refuses to Repair this 14 Month-Old Unit + BOGUS TRADE-IN PROGRAM

My father got me this unit at J&R in Oct. 2006. It was used correctly and crashed after 3 hours of use. I mailed it to Magellan for repair and it came back working, but only lasted another 3 hours before crashing again. Company promised new unit which was never received. Now, 1 year and 2 months after purchase, Magellan WILL NOT REPAIR THEIR 3000T UNIT and offers a trade-in that involves returning unit and buying a new model for more (LOTS more - $60 to $120) than a new one of same model from Amazon would cost.

The customer service department seems to be set up to fulfill the legal obligation of having a service department, and not much more. Magellan is too cheap to even provide a good phone signal for their dumpy boiler room. Their deeply foreign-accented techs and clerks do not understand my English and I have to ask them to repeat about every fourth word they speak. This service is a real insult.

The machine worked fine for the 6 hours it worked.

I'll try a Garmin next.

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