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Epicurus.com - Magellan RoadMate 2000 GPS Navigation System
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List Price: $249.99
Our Price: $295.00
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Magellan
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Batteries Included: 0
Brand: Magellan
EAN: 0763357115611
Feature: Made By: MAGELLAN
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Magellan
Manufacturer: Magellan
Model: MRM2000
Publisher: Magellan
Studio: Magellan
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Features
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Made By: MAGELLAN
Model Number: 98088901
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Editorial Reviews:
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The Magellan RoadMate 2000 makes it easier than ever to get where you need to go. Simple touch-screen menus and a built-in interactive map of the contiguous U.S. makes it easy to select virtually any destination and get voice and visual turn-by-turn directions as you drive.Use the touch screen to enter an address or select a point of interest and get an instant route using the shortest time, shortest distance, most freeways or least freeways. Nearly 1.3 million pre-programmed points of interest enable you to quickly find gas stations, airports, hotels, restaurants and much more.Points of interest icons appear on the map. Touch an icon to get detailed information about a destination, including phone number when available. Save your own personal points of interest to quickly navigate to frequent destinations.A complete set of advanced features include SmartDetour to route you around sudden slow freeway traffic, multi-destination routing, QuickSpell to quickly enter your destination, and 3D 'bird's-eye' view to clearly see your surroundings. Plus, the built-in battery gives you continuous use for up to 3 hours.The Magellan RoadMate 2000 is advanced vehicle navigation that is pocket-sized and remarkably affordable.
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Summary: Proceed to route....
Comment: I travel alot and many of my colleagues have GPS units. I've used theirs many times on business trips or Neverlost in Hertz. Finally last December, I broke down and bought the Magellan Roadmate 2000. I should have gone on the advice of my colleague and bought one of their models.
The unit acquires satellite signals well and doesn't loose them very often but for some reason does not calibrate very well.
I reset the unit constantly and have to enter in addresses of where I am in order to recalibrate the unit. This is kinda tough when you're traveling someplace and you've never been there in your life. I've taken off the highway to drive through small towns. In the small towns, I'll find a street name and a house address then enter that in just to recalibrate the unit. It can take a lot of time.
When it loses it's calibration, you can tell because it will constantly say, "Proceed to route" even though the arrow on the screen says you are on the route.
When I fly to another city and use it, it takes about 5 minutes after it acquires a satellite signal to recognize it's in a new city. It'll show hundreds of miles to destination even though there might be only 8 miles.
I have a couple other pet peeves with the system.
The locations entered in the unit aren't current even though the help desk says they are. I've driven through older parts of Kansas City which are completely missing. It shows a small percentage of gas stations, hotels, etc. So I don't know why the "points of interests" is much good in most situations. I have to make sure to add in the address of where I want to go. It does seem to accurately show the gas stations located near highways.
The last is that it's directions on the highway won't give the total mileage before you have to make a road change. On the course of traveling 20 miles on a highway that's not out in the middle of nowhere, it might give you "in 0.1 miles, stay on the current route, followed by a stay on the current route". It might split the 20 miles into 4 segments.
Of all the technology in my home, this unit is unanimously voted most likely in my family to be thrown across the room to be smashed in a moment of frustration.
Editing to add to this review on August 17, 2008: The unit quit working back in January. For a device which was so expensive and for which I bought a travel case for...it didn't last very long. I've only had one other electronic device which I bring on trips not last at least 3 years...or at least the period of time in which it becomes obsolete. I will never buy a Magellan again!
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