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| Magellan RoadMate 2000 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator | 
 enlarge | Brand: Magellan
Category: CE
List Price: $449.99
Buy Refurbished: $66.95
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New (2) Used (3) Refurbished (8) from $66.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  70 reviews
Sales Rank: 7781
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Native Resolution: 320 x 240
Display Size: 3.5
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 3.4 x 4.3 x 1.1
MPN: 98088901
Model: 980889-01
UPC: 063357115612
EAN: 0063357115612
ASIN: B000HZTB80
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Bad Product June 21, 2007
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
It hardly works for it always freezes, always give wrong directions, and has very bad support, to make a long story short.
 no glitches, but confuses me June 13, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I haven't had any mechanical issues and I love the voice commands and night viewing,etc. I find the graphics easy to view and all in all have really loved having it, especially for the price. That said, I have had a few confusing moments, such as the time I was on my way to a meeting in a conference room at a hotel and the GPS said "You have arrived" when I was exactly in the middle of a bridge-I am not kidding. Luckily, I could see the hotel on the service drive next to bridge, but it took some old fashioned looking around and circling back to figure out how to actually get to the hotel. Another time, it had me circling between two turn arounds on a boulevard in a sort of an endless loop- turn left in .5 miles, turn left in .5 miles (which is not a left at all but simply a way to make a U-turn on the boulevard). Finally, I got off a construction bogged highway to take the scenic route and was enjoying the road less traveled until the Roadmate had me make four right turns in a row-count them-you are back where you started! In every case, I eventually got where I was going by using the map rather than the directions and a general sense of direction, so for that, I really love the darn thing. And in the interest of fairness, it has also saved us, such as the time when my daughter's competition dance team coach got directions to the wrong high school off MapQuest and only realized her mistake after we arrived at 7am after driving for two hours and we punched in the right address into our Magellan and it saved the day! After reading the other reviews, though, I am afraid to update my software, which I haven't done.
 Magellan RoadMate Navigation System June 8, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Performs easily and accurately. Saved us several times in our travels to destinations we were not sure how to get to them.
WARNING: Warranty does not cover physical defects. DON"T BUY. June 7, 2007
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a warning to people buying this product. Warranty does not cover physical defects.
The touchscreen can shatter on this unit and it will cost you $150 to repair it. Without the touchscreen the item is completely useless. The last thing you want to happen is that when you're on the road, you find one morning that the touchscreen has shattered and you have no directions to get out of there.
I called support (in India) and they said warranty only covers software defects. I bought it 2 months ago and they said no physical defects was covered in the warranty.
I suggest getting a different product or a laptop based GPS receiver (way cheaper and more functionality)
Poor bottom end GPS Unit May 19, 2007
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I purchased the RoadMate four weeks ago. I have used it daily in areas where I don't know the streets. The map database is filled with errors, missing streets, and incorrectly named streets. The database seems to be fine if the streets have been there for more than 7 years. The rest is hit-or-miss, mostly miss.
If you zoom out from the lowest scale, the unit often doesn't display the street names where you can read them, or only displays them for a moment. It also requires you to know the city that you are in to select the street. It does not offer suggestions, or a search by street.
I contacted Magellan for help with all the errors in the maps. They said tough, we don't offer an update and have no plans to do so.
If you have to know where your going, CHOOSE ANOTHER UNIT! Make sure it has easily updated maps at no cost or low cost.
Avoid the RoadMate!!!!
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