Magellan RoadMate 1700 is 7-inches of Touchscreen GPS GoodnessThey've got the expense at $299.99, like the Magellan Maestro 4700 from a few months back. If the turn loose date pans out like we think it will, then September and more »
Which Magellan GPS is better? 1475t or 4700?
I have tried both. The small screen version of garmin is not the way to go, if you are like me and you are used to a touch screen keyboard then another brand is needed – qwerty keyboards suck for me. The Tom Tom has better software to find something on route. For example, if you are travelling for a few hours and you would like to get a Thai dinner along the route, Tom Tom makes good choices. Garmin is SO SO stupid, the programmers should hide their heads in the sand, because it will actually route you to Thai restaurants that are not along the route but even ones behind you. Its just retarded. Tom tom is much better as I said. However the map in Tom Tom is just not as good. Way points vary from city to city between the two gps systems. Hard to call their tech support. Garmin`s maps are simply impossible to beat, but their software is not quite as good I would say. On the other hand for novice users the garmin is much easier software to use. Oh one other thing... Garmin does make it easy to click on the map and get an overview which is easy to zoom out and click and drag around to see where you are going and what the gps has planned for you. Tom Tom can give you an overview but its not draggable (not a word I know) as far as I can figure out. Also you have to go through 2 menus to even get the overview. I find this a very very bad shortcoming because you can`t just trust a gps you need to take a look at what its planning. Sometimes they make stupid choices and screw you up bad so you have to review what they are planning. So it must be dead easy to get that overview in map form. Garmin does this nicely.
Magellan GPS that is popular is a Maestro 4700, Magellan RoadMate 1470 and Magellan RoadMate 1700.
Magellan Maestro 4700 : has a 4.7-Inch Widescreen, Spoken street name, Bluetooth, Multi-destination routing, Highway lane assist, Includes maps of United States + Canada and Puerto Rico, Voice command, etc.
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Magellan RoadMate 1475T : has a 4.7-Inch Widescreen, Spoken street names and directions, Multi-destination routing, Highway lane assist signs, Real-time traffic alerts for life, Preloaded maps and points of interest for the United States + Canada and Puerto Rico, etc.
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Note : Magellan RoadMate 1475T is not support a Bluetooth, The letter "T" end of model is meaning has a feature traffic alerts or traffic service.
I would suggestion a Garmin GPS : Garmin Nuvi 765T, Garmin Nuvi 885T.
Garmin Nuvi 765T : has a 4.3-Inch diagonal touch screen color display, Text-to-speech, Bluetooth, Preloaded with highly detailed City Navigator NT road maps from Navteq for the entire United States + Canada + Puerto Rico, Lane assist, Free real-time traffic updates from Navteq (for the life of the device), Multi-destination routing, Where am i? Where's my car?, etc.
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Garmin Nuvi 885T : has a 4.3-Inch diagonal touch screen color display, Text-to-speech (Spoken street name), Voice-activated navigation (operate device with spoken commands), Bluetooth, Multi-destination routing, Where am I? and Where's my car?, Personal travel assistant, Lane assist with junction view, Get Enhanced MSN direct, MicroSD card slot, etc.
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