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Everything works. Sometimes have to reset and have to turn off and on but works well. Seems to be very acurate.

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Love the ease of use on the unit,simple learn and operate. I travel with 2 Garmin owners who were blown away with the performance of the 4700 on a recent trip to Colorado. They love the graphics, how fast it loaded up and how accurate it is. The also loved the way the 4700 would change the route without the "recaculating" Garmin voice. I just returned for a project run in the Kansas City area on both sides of the state line and the 4700 was quick and accurate for every location I needed to be. For the price, you can not beat the performance of this unit.

I was very disappointed with the Magellan Maestro. For being a GPS that supposedly has all of these great features, I have been quite disappointed. My first MAJOR issue is that it is not mac-friendly. When you take it out of the box, in order to be able to program in an address, you need to download updates to the firmware or whatever it is. However, you can not do this on a mac computer. I rarely have access to anything else, so it has made it quite difficult to get it working effectively The voice on it has an underlying angry tone, and there's no way to change it that I've found. The phone feature is nice, but it does not tell you/read you text messages like many of the other models going at this price do. So I would recommend one of those over the magellan any day! Overall, it's functional and does what it's supposed to do if you can get it to keep the address and not restart to increase system performance. Hopefully the update will fix that if I ever find a computer to use.

I bought the Magellan Maestro because I live in S. Korea and need to travel to America two or three times a year. Need something easy to use. The Maestro does all this and does it easily sitting at my desk in a foreign country, once I arrive in America I am directed by the magellan to my hotel.

Works well. Really like the "bing" audio just before you reach a turn. Magellan really needs to update the user handbook. I bought this specific GPS because it has a pedistrian mode which is supposed to help you find where you parked your car. The user handbook doesn't tell you how to do this.

I have had 8 GPS units so far and this is by far my favorite, it is the most compact, the easiest to use, and gets the signal the fastest and reroutes the quickest as well. Pro's: 1. I have had several other GPS's that took a while on the first boot up to locate me but this one is very quick. 2. The rerouting is the fastest of any unit I have had by far. 3. Has the most POI of the types that I actually need then other units, including AAA stuff. 4. It has soooo many other features that I could go on and on about, I have not had anything that even compared so I would highly recommend this GPS. Con's: 1. Bluetooth is hard to hear, people seem to hear me fine but I can not hear them very well at all. 2. I have had a few times it showed me in the wrong place so I missed my turn, this happened three times in one month but I do drive about 3,000 mile a month. 3. When driving on the Interstate, the mileage to the next exit counts to the next Interstate if there is one before your exit, or several in my case and I need to know how far until my exit, not how far till the next Interstate exit. It is fine if there are no Interstates between when you get on the freeway and your exit.

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I recently purchased this Magellan 1470 and used it once for 2 hours. I was checking out the website and it recommended a firmware update. Following all the instructions I completed the update and it promptly turned my brand new gps into a paper weight. It was stuck on the startup screen. After calling customer service several times I had to return my gps. In exchange I was to get a reconditioned one back. After again making several more calls I was told that they would indeed send me a new gps. This was only after I pointed out that the gps was only three days old and that doing their firmware update actually broke it. The product is very nice but since they actually broke it, it would suggest you go a different direction.

is that the POI are not very current.... there are some new streets/malls in area thatare over a year old with street dedication..yet not in their list. biggest disappointment is that the updates to current maps are not avaiblable for free with initial purchase... love how loud it is and the POI it does have work great!

Have used GPS systems in every Lexus i have owned from 1997 on the last car i purchesed did not have one standard, and it was $1,700 more with it, i declined and missed it very much, i bought this one and it's with out a doubt the best GPS i have ever used, My LS460 had Traffic it was nice i have not tryed the Traffic on this yet but i am sure i will in the next several months Read all other reviews before i decided on brand and models and it help alot so i thought i should comment

I spent days and days researching GPS devices, going to stores, reading online reviews, visiting manufacturer's sites and talking to people who owned GPS devices. I even bought and returned two other units - A Magellan 1445T and a Navigon 7200. I thought my research would guide me to the best unit for me. Boy was I wrong and did I waste a lot of time. Ask yourself what is really important to you before you buy. For me that was FREE lifetime traffic alerts, lane guidance, an easy to see and read display, QWERTY input and accuracy. That narrowed the field considerably. What I found out was the two major manufacturers focus their sales pitch on "features and benefits" but pay little attention to clear concise descriptions of what their device really does or how it works. I got my Magellan 1470 last week. I didn't buy the 1475T since I bought a second Traffic power cable/FM receiver when I got my 1445T and couldn't get it to work and kept the receiver. I unpacked the unit and eagerly fired it up; no luck the battery wasn't charged enough. Since Magellan has forgone an AC power cord to keep costs down and wants an arm and leg for their brand I had to wait until I had someplace other than the grocery store as a destination. The instructions say it may take 3 to 4 hours to fully charge the unit. Alpine here I come - on a rainy Saturday afternoon the 90 miles would stretch to two hours mostly on the only corridor between Los Angeles and San Diego the busy, nasty Interstate 5. I mounted the suction cup, attached the unit and plugged in the power supply firing up the device and programmed my destination into the unit. The unit took about 10 seconds to start, found the signal wihtin about a minute and off I went; so far so good. ERG. Getting on the 5 I wanted to see what traffic problems where on my way and when I pressed the traffic alert got the "acquiring signal" message I'd gotten with the 1445T. Oh no, not again! I could never get that unit to acquire a signal, spent hours on the phone with customer (lack of) support being told that "coverage in LA is spotty" by someone in India who did what I did, pulled up the coverage map from the Magellan website. LA county is huge so yes, some areas don't get great signal but come on Magellan but those customer lack-of support people a clue. I'd driven for an hour before I got to Oceanside in North San Diego County and traffic ground to a halt just like always. I looked at the unit and found to my surprise there was a red outline to the traffic triangle - yay, success it must be getting some signal! It did and showed me not the traffic jam I was in but two others on my route 18 and 32 miles away. The Oceanside back up was normal and heavy rain slowed it down more. But 3 minutes later I was back up to 60MPH. Out in Alpine (30 miles east of downtown San Diego) it's hill country in the high desert so when I got in the car for the drive back I didn't expect a signal; to my surprise the traffic icon had a green outline and when pushed indicated a strong traffic signal. Yay...maybe I had a keeper? What I like: The unit has a great display - strong colors easy to read. Inputting destination data is easy - ZIP code entry is a good start not available on the comparable Brand X units which require you to input the state, then city, then street. If you are a PC I suggest you update the software ASAP, if you are a MAC you are SOL - Brand X offers compatibility for both. What I don't like: It's hard to input data and requires use of a fingernail or stylist; I suppose that's good and cuts down on input error. There is no "quick start" guide in the box and no CD so Magellan has decided that their devices are so intuitive that it isn't necessary to include those - keeping the cost down. Hey Magellan, it's really hard to figure the unit out if it won't power up so you can sit at your computer and read this stuff on your website. No AC power cable. With all the cool routing ability it would be nice to sit down and program in your address book, multiple trips with multiple locations rather than struggle with this in the car. No address book interface. No MAC compatibility. Card slot for pictures is a complete waste of time. If you are driving there is only one thing you should be doing, driving, not looking at pictures. No ability to change the voice. The worst customer service on the planet. Can't move the icons on the home display or order them so "home" is in the lower right corner and the more GoTos you add the harder it becomes to find. High price/high margin accessories. Come on guys $24.99for the AC power cord? And customer service makes a big deal out of using anything but Magellan - actually locked up the 1445t when I charged it with a standard adapter. My conclusion is that this is a very good unit for the price as long as you don't pay retail. It's easy to use and gets you there better than the $2200 unit in my wife's late model German car that always thinks we live across the street. Remember to write down what you need out of a unit and shop based on your needs. This is a perfectly good unit for those of us who drive in the Los Angeles, San Diego megaplex of freeways, highways, city streets and by-ways. Don't waste a lot of time on research, buy what you think will work and try it. If you don't like it return it and buy something else. Magellan RoadMate 1470 4.7-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator

I got my first Roadmate 1470 and the POI search was terrible taking well over 5 minutes in most cases to locate business'. I also didn't like the style keyboard since it wasn't QWERTY. But, I found out 2.2 firmware update on MAgellan website will fix all that so I downloaded it and it bricked the unit. Amazon did a next day shipment on the return and sent me another one. Amazon return process was very nice. This second unit I received I was hesitant to update it so I waited a few weeks. I then decided to call Magellan as I got impatient with the POI search and told them on the phone my experience and that I was nervous about updating this unit and asked for some resolution to this since the POI search didn't work well with 1.1 firmware. Magellan said the firmware update that was download a few weeks ago should be deleted from your drive and redownload and try to upgrade it. He said there have been reports of corruption on download of that file. So, I redownloaded and viola the second unit updated succesfully and no bricked unit that would get stuck on boot up with a spinning clock. The problem I had are solved the POI search is awesome and everything works fine and I have my QWERTY keyboard. I gave this bad marks on reliability because of all the hassle but keep trying you'll get a unit that will upgrade now. I paid 87 dollars for a refurb unit and let me tell you even thought this was a hassle to get a unit that would work right was well worth this money. A new one is significantly more and now I have a unit that will update.

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I guess it's really my fault I didn't do enough research to see that this was simply a cell phone charger. The product works, don't get me wrong, but if I had known it was not specifically for the GPS, I would have found one in town that I didn't have to pay more in shipping than I did for the actual product.

It is always good to have an AC adaptor for electronics. Just makes it convienient when you are inside and the battery runs low.

Charger powers up Magellan Road Mate 1412 however it does not charge battery. I can work with GPS but does not put 1412 into charge mode.

It does not work for Magellan RoadMate 1412. It doesn't charge the GPS. I will ask for a refund or replacement.

I had my doubts at first, but it really works. I am so impress. If you don't want send a lot of money this is for you. You can't ask for more. Love It.