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Constant Chatter Shopping Center - Magellan RoadMate 760 Portable GPS Navigator
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List Price: $899.99
Our Price: $194.04
Your Save: $ 705.95 ( 78% )
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Magellan
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Average Customer Rating:   
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Electronics
Brand: Magellan
Color: SILVER
Display Size: 3.8
EAN: 0763357111163
Feature: In-car GPS navigation system with user-friendly touch-screen interface
Includes Mp3 Player: 1
Label: Magellan
Manufacturer: Magellan
Model: 760 North America
Native Resolution: 320 x 240
Publisher: Magellan
Special Features: Electronic compass
Studio: Magellan
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Features
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In-car GPS navigation system with user-friendly touch-screen interface
Turn-by-turn 3D directions with voice prompting in 11 languages
3.8-inch TFT color display automatically adjusts to lighting changes
Built-in 20 GB hard drive with preloaded North American maps
Room for 300 PDA address book uploads; 6.6 by 3.3 by 1.5 inches (W x H x D)
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Editorial Reviews:
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MAGELLAN RoadMate 760 -- GPS continues to help you find your way where ever you are. Imagine having a personal assistant in your car, guiding you turn by turn, with a friendly voice and visual signals, even when you don't know the address. Magellan RoadMate 760 is another step towards refining GPS vehicle guidance to help optimize your driving experiences. With advanced software and a larger memory to support it, travelling new byways and highways and getting where you want to go has just reached a friendlier, easier level. Whether you're going across the country on vacation or across town for dinner, you'll get there with a new level of assurance using this advanced auto navigation system. It's the only system built on technologies road-tested and proven by over 4 million drivers in rental cars with Hertz NeverLost navigation systems. And it's truly easy to set up and use. When compared to the RoadMate 700, the 760 has a built-in hard drive that has a 20GB capacity instead of 10. That allows space for more mapping software. Advanced software is also included and adds the convenience of synthesized 'Street name' anounce as part of the voice guidance system. This helps make following the directions from RoadMate 760 easier and more intuitive. Trust Magellan to continue making GPS a greater wonder and more powerful tool. Turn-by-turn navigation Route recalculation calculates new route when car deviates from route Dynamically tracks progress on the onscreen map QuickSpell technology pre-determines letters when spelling street and city names Enhanced Voice Guidance adds street names to directions as a friendlier reference to help you reach your destination Includes universal mount & cigarette lighter adapter
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Shows electrical wear quickly
Comment: I purchased this GPS approximately two years ago and have had to replace the 12V electrical cord and the back plane mount device already. I use the device while on vacation. Total times used while on maybe three dozen times. The external electrical connections are not very rugged. I had to hard wire the antenna as the fold down unit did not reliably maintain satellite connections. Think twice before purchasing.... only at a severe discount.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Don't buy
Comment: Magellan Customer service is the worst customer service I have ever dealt with. They offer a free 30 day map update since all of their products ship with out of date maps. This would be a good thing except it is in the fine print of their products and their customer support email address that their website list is the wrong address. I had to get through to their customer service by posting a bad review on their website. By the time they responded my unit was beyond the 30 day limit and they refused to give me the update. This is a bad business practice. Garmin has a 60 day guarantee which is posted directly on their website in plain view.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Old, Clunky, Slow As Molasses, But Works
Comment: This is an old unit. It's big. The operating system is slow. It will freeze every once in a while. Magellan is TERRIBLE about their map updating. Magellan has TERRIBLE offshore customer support. I don't care if customer service is off shore, but let me talk to somebody who is empowered to solve my problems.
But even with it's old school computer voice, and now 2 year old maps... it works and it's better than not having a GPS.
However, in 2008... get a Garmin.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not too helpful, but better than nothing
Comment: Big, bulky, but not terrible. Unfortunately when I called the Customer Service people to say that all of the sudden, for no apparent reason it just doesn't work any longer, they said, "sorry, but there's nothing we can do."
I liked some of the features, but, man, if the thing doesn't work, I'm stuck.
So- I bought a Tom-Tom One from RadioShack for $150. What a deal, and way better than the RoadMate.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Smart unit
Comment: Tons of POI and smart. Very intuitive about traffic and traffic patterns, where the slow traffic is and during what times.
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