Good price but useless product
Written: Jun 25 '06 (Updated Jul 06 '06)
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Pros: Nothing, because the map concept behaviour is wrong
Cons: It is impractical. See text
The Bottom Line: Do not waste money!
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| jannadem's Full Review: Magellan RoadMate 300 Car GPS Receiver |
It was time to move up from my trusty Garmin eMap GPS. I used the new Magellan GPS on the way home from the store where I bought it but turned back to the store after 100 km to return it. I am sure that an owner of this GPS without exposure to anything else would be impressed with it. It looks good and talks good, but I found it to be almost useless:
The detail map is perfect when zoomed in to 1.5 km or less, so you just see intersection and perhaps 2 blocks. Every zoom-out click removes more and more details until there is nothing left on the screen. This is like to zoom on picture to see person eye, which is perfect. You zoom out to see nose -> face ->head -> whole head and neck -> then head disappears -> neck disappears…
You cannot see the surrounding villages, businesses, landmarks, your own points of interest (waypoints).
You cannot save your own waypoint to show on the map. You just save addresses, but you will not see that you are let say 5 km away from your friend’s address, because there is no icon to show this location. It will navigate you to it if you ask to do so, but it will not show that you are driving close to campground which you visited and marked previously. Basically you have no idea how far you are in relation to other things. It is totally impractical.
My first test was to navigate from the store to home 445 km away. The generated route was highlighted yellow. I wanted to see whole rote, so I zoomed out. After 20 km resolution I could see just yellow line with nothing else on the screen. No names of villages, towns, roads, lakes. Really weird.
This map concept might be good enough in the city for some delivery company, but totally impractical to take it for holiday.
I plugged in my 6 years old eMap GPS and drove home. While driving I realized how my old Garmin was advanced in comparison to this retarded Magellan system. Do not waste your money!
Recommended:
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