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| Magellan RoadMate 300 GPS Portable Navigator | 
 enlarge | Brand: Magellan
Category: CE
List Price: $349.99
Buy Used: $75.00
You Save: $274.99 (79%)
Used (5) from $75.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  64 reviews
Sales Rank: 10518
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Tracks: 20
Batteries Included: No
Native Resolution: 320 x 240
Includes MP3 Player: 0
Shipping Weight (lbs): 9999
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 7.8 x 3.5
Array:
MPN: 980668-02
Model: 980668-02
UPC: 763357109337
EAN: 0763357109337
ASIN: B0002Y22VE
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great unit January 25, 2006
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Great unit! gets me where I want to go, no more maps! I dont need a unit with the whole U.S. on it, just the southeast. I was given an sd card of the southeast for free when this unit was purchased(cost 50.00).Its all I need, simple to operate. With the voice commands you really dont even have to look at the screen, just listen. Very accurate with the optional exterior mounted magnetic antena(sp?).
 Avoid this product!!! January 11, 2006
17 out of 19 found this review helpful
I have a Magellan 700 and my wife the 300. While the company claims that these are quite the same product with lesser memory - there are significant differences that makes this product far much inferior.
1. The processing is extremely slow - sometimes it takes a few minutes before giving you the directions and till then you pretty much keep drifting into the wrong streets and so it has to start recalculating!
2. The software uses "TOWNSHIPS" and NOT cities. If you are in the NE like me and have a mailing address (which has a city) tough luck! You will enter the street name and will have no clue as to what township to enter. This is perhaps the single big feature that almost makes the product unusable.
3. Often it takes much longer for the device to get the GPS signal when coming out of a garage or other covered parking.
4. When I was driving around in Manhattan - it had no idea where I was and was indicating that I was driving in the middle of blocks and not streets.
Again, the 700 and 300 look very similar, but do not be deceived. The 700 is a great product, but the 300 is seriously lacking!
direction & voice commands is very poor December 30, 2005
6 out of 12 found this review helpful
So many voice commands differes from original direction shown in unit. recently started to freeze after year usage.
So many time calculate wrong directions even. Takes you to no where, than calcuate direction again from there no where place.
But support from India, is very good. The can listen problem & try to solve it best the can. Somebody saying support is not good, try to call verizon or motorola support. Than compare.
 I Love It December 22, 2005
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I had none of the set-up problems described by others. It boots quickly, no problems loading maps, and I got a free SD card with the enitre Northeast from Magellan through a rebate and had no problem installing that. I find the GPS to be amazingly accurate. The route that it suggests might not always be what you would take if you had perfect local knowledge, but it's much better than directions you get out of Mapquest, etc. More imporantly, you just can't get lost. Miss a turn, it quickly reroutes you. I have only found a couple of minuses with the 300 (which are really true of all models; it's just the current state of this technology):
- As others have stated, the maps are dated. Not too big a deal for me, but the unit will give you bum instructions when you drive through a circle that has since turned into an intersection, etc.
- I hate the mount. The window suction cup sticks pretty good, but it has fallen off once or twice. And when you want to take it off, it's a little difficult to do so. I wish there were better mounts.
- When driving through a large city with sky scrapers, you sometimes don't see enough sky to get a good signal. I like the way the Magellan shoots over to giving you a visible list of your turns, but I also hate losing the voice prompts just when I need them most.
- The biggest problem is getting the 300 to recognize an address. The system of entering an address is pretty good, but it doesn't always recognize the address you would expect it to. Sometimes, it doesn't have the town name that you're looking for because it has the address identified by the location's township or some other identifier. I can't believe it's not based on mailing addresses 100% of the time. This has been the biggest problem for me.
That's what I don't like, but again, many of those items apply to ALL units, not just the 300. On balance, I love this unit. Once you get it to recognize the address (which you can do most of the time, but not always), it is flawless in taking you there. Highly recommended.
 Good luck getting support from INDIA December 21, 2005
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
I got this thing brand new and ran their software to download detail map to its 80MB of internal memory. The software asked for authorization #; which cannot be found anywhere. I then tried to download the map to my 512MB SD card (followed their authorization instruction), the RoadMate then came up and said "Map not found". Called their support people, some where in India since Magellan outsources their support, about 4 times and average waiting time is 30 minutes each. They said they need to send me an index file and it will fix my problem. I waited the whole day and did not get any file. The index got to me a day later, I followed their instruction, and the RoadMate 300 finally came up. Tried it out and it ran much slower than the RoadMate 500.
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