The Magellan RoadMate 1200 is a vehicle navigation device that guides drivers to their destinations using maps from a pre-loaded memory card. Updates to the RoadMate 1200 may. 2007 With the RoadMate 1200, Magellan wants you to know that “thin is in”. This is one of the thinnest GPS devices on the market today, and even comes with a small price tag. However Magellan does skimp in one area, Points of Interest. While other competitive devices like the Garmin Nuvi 200 series come with over 6 million POIs, this RoadMate has just over one million. So don’t expect it to know every restaurant or ATM in town. Download iso android per virtualbox for mac. This is a no-frills bare bones GPS without too many features. But that could be what you are looking for. Road warriors and connoisseurs of consumer electronics might want to look a little further up the product line. Just bought a Magellan 1200 at [snip]. Brighter display than any other they had. I am very impressed with this unit. It doen’t have text to speech, but most roads on the HIGHLY detailed map display are accurately labeled. Voice routing is good and anticipates turns 0.5 mi ahead. What I am really intrigued about is the satelite aquisition capability. IN MY HOUSE with windows on either side 12ft. Away six aquired. Sensitivity to motion is so good that the map display shows movement as I walk through my house. I don’t know if other devices do this, but at $[snip] this is good enough for me. There is also a location screen that gives coordinates, direction of movement and what streets are in ahead and behind the direction of travel. Voice quality, however is not on a par with more expensive units. I bought this from [snip, see comment policy] on online Black Friday and really liked it. I was amazed that you could get a device like this for $[snip]. But then the device started locking up. It would lock up about every 15 min and I would have to restart it to unlock it. I exchanged it for another (the same model) at [snip] and the new one did the same thing plus it would periodically shut it self off. I know that this is a new model and hopefully that can fix it with a firmware update but for now it is not worth the hassle. Will there be USB functionality for this unit? The 2 amps claimed on the Magellan site is 4x the USB allowable power drain. The european owners manual (the only one available on-line) makes no mention of PC connectivity. Or is the mini-b USB plug to automobile power cable just cheap to source for Magellan and the SD slot the only upgrade path? Sorry, the price IS right, but the support and information available is tragically inadequate. It’s been weeks since the product launch and Magellangps.com barely acknowledges the products existance. I was happy with my Mag.
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