| The Magellan RoadMate 1412 is pocket-sized, ultra-thin, and stylish, and features an extra large 4.3-inch wide-format, full color interactive touchscreen. The expanded Points of Interest database offers 6 million built-in destinations for an incredible value. Find fuel, food, lodging, ATMs and hundreds of other businesses and services with a few touches of the screen. Plus, it includes built-in maps of the entire United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada.  Clear 4.3-inch WQVGA touchscreen shows your position, POIs, route, ETA and more on the interactive map | 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.  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. | Key Features Include
- Large wide-format color 4.3-inch WQVGA 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.
- 6 million Points of Interest: Easily find what you need. 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.
- Expanded NAVTEQ maps let you Travel the entire U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada with all the maps you need, pre-loaded on the included SD memory card.
- SayWhere text-to-speech lets you 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.
- Bold, intuitive menu options make it easy to pick destinations and choose how you navigate, without even reading the instructions.
- Uniquely stylish and compact, it's 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.
- Program any location into the "Home" button and find your way back from wherever you are.
- Enter destinations with a few keystrokes. 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 Birds eye 3D view.
- Never miss a turn with Auto re-route and quickly get back on track whenever you take a detour.
- Auto NightView controls color and contrast adjusting 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.
- Multi-destination routing: 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 its 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 1412 4.3-inch widescreen portable GPS navigator, adhesive disk for dash mounting, basic cradle, swivel mount, vehicle power adapter (12-24 watts), quick reference guide and CD, alcohol pad |
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 First GPS |
| Review Date: June 7, 2008 |
| Reviewer: V. St Angelo, Forest, VA |
This is my first GPS. Given the number of options available and brands, I could not decide so I have been shopping for many months. I decided on the Magellan since this is the brand provided by Hertz (neverlost) and I had success with these units in the rentals. What sold me was:
The feature where the unit will complete the spelling for you of objects being searched;
The 4.3" screen;
The huge POI library.
I compared to a Garmin NUVI 260 at Best Buy and it seemed the Garmin spent a lot more time thinking than did the 1412.
The huge POI library was also a plus. I entered many known POI's and the 1412 always displayed them accurately. Finally the 4.3" screen was a seller.
No complaints here and I would recommend it. |
Great GPS for the money
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| Review Date: June 11, 2008 |
| Reviewer: C. Anderson, Sunny California! |
We first saw this GPS at Costco for $[...]. Then, we saw the Coupon. Even without the coupon it is a heck of a deal. I would go so far as to say it is a steal! We've considered a GPS for our car for some time. We looked at Tom-Tom's, Magellans, Garmins and Navigon. Magellan just came out with a new line of hand helds and they have had a bit of a rocky start. So, we were initially a little leary of this new addition to the Magellan Auto GPS line. But, Costco had them as part of a working display and my wife and I got a chance to try the unit out in demo mode in the store. The unit was quick and flawless.
Though the unit has 6 Million points of interest, not every gas station, store and Resturaunt is in there. We find the problems to be with the establishments that are 10 or more years old. We also found this problem with the other brands as well. We actually liked the Tom Tom better than the garmin as well. Garmin is mighty proud of their units and need to figure out that they need to bring down the price point if they are going to stay competitive. The Navigon and it's 1 million POI's is a little limited based on it's competition. We have a Magellan 210 Explorist that we use for Geocaching, and we love it. So, we were willing to give this unit a try and we love it!
For the money, the Magellan 1412 is the way to go for a complete Navigation unit. We didn't want one to Play MP3's or have blue tooth or do traffic stuff. This unit is perfect for us and we look forward to using it a lot.
We found that the unit was very quick to re-route us when we missed a turn. The Text to speech pronounciation is very good. The unit comes with a built in battery so you can do routing in the comfort of your Home or RV and then move it to the dash and 'Away you go'. The unit changes to a black screen automatically, when it gets dark out to make it more comfortable for night driving. We find the user interface to be very intuitive. We would highly recommend this unit to anyone considering a GPS for the vehicle.
Happy camping. - Eric - |
For the money!
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| Review Date: June 14, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Dan L. Nichols, |
I've be a user of GPS units for many years. The positive reviews offered here seem to be complete and accurate; the few negative reviews don't take into consideration the cost of this unit, so I will just touch on several points to help round out the overview of this product. FOR THE MONEY, this product is fantastic; I think the best on the market. Very bright display, very simple, very accurate. The text to voice on this unit is one of the clearest and most pleasantly synthesized provider of information that I've run into. Heck, I think you could turn this unit upside down on the seat next to you and reach your destination without effort.
This unit is so new that all of the newest maps come loaded into it. I live in a fast growing Phoenix Metro area where highways are always coming on line and everything is here. I must have been one of the earliest purchasers of this product because there was only one review at the time. I waited until now to fully use and review. Multiple destinations, a great address book setup, simple to change things on the fly, I must recommend this product.
There may be slightly better products with more features for more money, but if you want a real performer that is heads and heals above other units at this price point, you can't go wrong here.
Up date: 7/5/08
Ok ... after further review. I've used this thing a lot for work. I still stand by the above info but must add this slightly negative finding. It seem the exact location that you route to is often off a bit. The unit might say "you have arrived," when in fact you are a few addresses past or before your expected address. It might say "destination on the right," when in fact, it is on the left. Once the unit was as much as a mile incorrect with its final finding. I would pull a star if I could. The unit is still a good buy and I have found all destinations I've ask directions to. I will check the Web and see if an update exists.
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My Mate On The Road !
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| Review Date: July 29, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Andrew I. Munro Sr., Park City, Utah, United States |
This is my first GPS., although I have used them in rental cars, so not a novice. I am an educated consumer and checked out them all prior to purchasing, Garmin, Tom Tom, Mio etc etc. But reviews and features kept bringing me back to this baby. First off the satellite signal is at four bars all the time, no messing about with additional antenna's. Due to this on switching the unit on, within 15 seconds or so, it's locked on and ready to go. I found it easy to enter my home address and it got me to me destination easily. Her voice is a little scratchy, due to the small speaker. But still audible over my XM with no problems. Some reviewers have mentioned if you miss your turn it keeps saying 'do a U Turn', I deliberately missed a turn several times and each time it actually instantly recomputed my location and took me forward without having to make any U Turns...so maybe I have a different software version ? One reviewer also mentioned that the maps have not been updated since 2006, this has to be incorrect as I navigated around a roundabout in my town which has only been there for 11 months, prior to that it was dirt-track !! Plus this is a brand new unit which has only been out a few months.
One thing I hate is the packaging, having to fight my way thru plastic, which is now in pieces, good job I don't want to return it ! My other moan is the instruction manual is on a disc, so you have to print it out.
They suggest the quick start guide is sufficient for you to carry in the car. I disagree, you really need the full manual to use this wonderful little unit to it's full capacity.
All in all, it get's 5 stars from me and for the money, this little beauty is a winner all the way !! |
Very Happy With This Purchase: Magellan RoadMate 1412
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| Review Date: July 24, 2008 |
| Reviewer: E. Whistler, Virginia |
This is my second GPS, replacing an Omnitech unit that we gave to our daughter. I originally purchased a MIO C320 to replace the Omnitech, but found it extremely confusing to use and lacking in features, such as text to speech and keeping an address book.
First, the Pro's...
This is a GPS unit that does what you want it to do!
It has a wide screen that is uncluttered and easy to follow and provides more than enough information to get you to where you want to go.
The text to speech voice quality is clear and understandable. The volume level is quite good.
Route calculations and recalculations are made in reasonable time and with excellent accuracy.
It doesn't have an MP3 Player
It doesn't have a digital photo viewer.
You can't play Sudoku on it.
You cannot play movies on it.
It is, after all, a GPS unit! Why would I want to pay $100 - $200 more for features I could care less about?
The maps are 3rd quarter 2007. I assume updates are available annually. When I got the unit home, I checked the firmware version and updated the unit to the latest version with no observable problems, and no discernible negative effect on operations.
The unit comes with 6 million POI's and you can add to that. I added a list of Virginia wineries. The address book is easy to use and access and can store 100 places.
Now for the con's...
Some features are a little further down the menu tree than I would like. Getting to the address book, for instance, requires about 4 clicks, so instead of spending 2 seconds getting there, plan on spending 4 seconds! Like anything new, there's a learning curve so you should expect to some time to get familiar with this.
I'm having to struggle here to think of more con's...
There is no AC adapter, but these are the same adapters used for many other electronic devices such as cell phones, PDA's, cameras, etc. There is also no USB cable. Again, these are common accessories that most of us have lying around.
The mapping software that is available for download onto your PC doesn't seem to be very user-friendly. I'm not sure what I would use it for anyway, other than, perhaps, to print out a route. But then, what's the point of having a GPS?
For the price and the features, I really can't complain about this unit. So far, I'm VERY pleased with the purchase and very satisfied. I "almost" bought one of the competing brands for $150 more and, the only thing I would have gotten for the increased cost are "enhancements" that I don't want anyway.
I strongly recommend this unit to anyone interested in a GPS unit who's strength is to get you from point A to point B!
I also highly commend Magellan for concentrating on the core competencies of this GPS unit and for making it available at an affordable price. The "other guys" seem intent on adding extraneous "enhancements" in an effort to justify pushing up the price point.
This is a GOOD, SOLID, GPS for the money and we're extremely satisifed to have it!
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