Like New Magellan Roadmate 800 GPS with Mp3 - $400
ID: 23167
Date: 2006-10-22 14:17:05
Other Ads. Pittsburg / antioch.
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For sale is an almost Brand new Magellan
800 GPS Navigation System/mp3 player.
Comes with the original box and all original
accessories. Asking Price : 400 cash FIRM
local Pick up only.
Please contact me on my cell at 801 556 5550 if you
are a serious buyer.
Pick up from Antioch
Details Below
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Design of Magellan RoadMate 800
The Magellan RoadMate 800 doesn't break any new ground in the design
department. It sports the same basic shape and familiar gray and silver color
scheme that Magellan uses for most of its RoadMate products, although the
antenna is a square flip-up type rather than the lipstick-shape mechanism found
on earlier models. The 3.5-inch color touch screen uses a built-in sensor to
adjust to variable lighting environments, and happily, we had no problem viewing
the screen in direct sunlight.
For best results, make sure the Magellan RoadMate 800's
antenna has a clear view of the sky.
To the right of the display are nine function buttons for accessing the menu
system, entering commands, zooming in and out of map screens, and locating your
present position on the map. One of the switches is an eight-way rocker that you
can use to pan map screens and scroll through menus and item selections, while
another mutes the speaker. Along the top bezel are an SD/MMC card slot, a volume
control, and a reset switch. A USB 2.0 port and a headphone jack are located on
the left side, and there's a compartment on the right that holds a rechargeable
lithium-ion battery, which means you can take advantage of the Magellan RoadMate
800's navigation and entertainment features anywhere, whether you're traveling
by car or on foot.
The RoadMate's various function buttons let you access
menus, zoom in and out on maps, and more.
One of our complaints about the Magellan RoadMate 760 was its unstable
mounting cradle; this time around, it is noticeably larger and sturdier. In
addition to the windshield mount, Magellan packages the system with AC and DC
power adapters, a USB cable, and two CD-ROMs containing the user manual and a
few utilities for managing points of interest (POI), MP3s, and digital photo
files. You also get a set of earbud headphones and a carrying case.
Features of Magellan RoadMate 800
The Magellan RoadMate 800 is packed with the usual assortment of navigation
features that you'd expect to find in a quality GPS device, including voice- and
text-guided driving directions, multidestination routing, automatic rerouting,
and a strong 12-channel GPS receiver and antenna combo. Detailed Navteq maps of
North America are stored on the unit's 20GB hard drive, so there's no need to
upload maps. However, if you want to unlock the 27 European maps stored on the
drive, it'll cost an extra $199.
Included with the street-level maps is a database of more than 6 million POI,
which are broken down into more than 35 categories, such as restaurants, vehicle
services, airports, hospitals, and nightlife, just to name a few. You can locate
a POI that is nearest to your current location, search for it by name, or
conduct a city search and have the system automatically create a route to it.
You can also create a route using a destination from your address book, which
holds up to 200 entries.
Magellan's SmartDetour function kicks in when your travel speed drops below
15mph for a user-specified period of time, giving you the option of requesting a
new route around the congested area. If you know ahead of time that a problem
area is on your route, you can use the Detour function at any time to avoid
potential slowdowns. New to this model is the addition of a 3D bird's-eye map
view, which is activated by tapping an icon on the map. As with the Magellan
StreetPilot 760, a detailed TrueView 3D map box opens right before an
anticipated maneuver, showing the direction of your turn, the street name, and
the distance to the turn. Oddly, the Magellan StreetPilot 800 doesn't offer the
SayWhere text-to speech technology found on the 760, which is disappointing.
Fill up an SD card with music and photos and take
advantage of the Magellan RoadMate 800's multimedia features.
There is 4.5GB of available storage on the hard drive, so you can load lots
of JPEG and BMP picture files and view them with the RoadMate photo viewer. You
can also store MP3 and WMA music files and listen to them using the RoadMate
music player or load them via the SD/MMC card slot. While the internal speaker
is nice and loud, it's designed for voice commands and driving alerts. As a
result, music sounds one-dimensional and tinny. You do get a decent set of
earbud headphones, but we think an FM modulator, which allows you to play your
music through your car stereo, would be a nice touch.
Performance of Magellan RoadMate 800
The Magellan RoadMate 800 performed admirably on our road tests, maintaining
a strong satellite lock throughout most of our travels. Initially, it took 3
minutes for the unit to acquire a 3D fix (four satellites locked in), but
waiting times were around 30 to 45 seconds thereafter, which is on a par with
other navigation systems. More important, the RoadMate 800's receiver is
steadfast, as it tracked our progress accurately on a route that took us from
the suburbs of Long Island to Brooklyn. We lost our signal only once, and that
was while we were stuck in traffic below an underpass.
The SmartDetour feature provided several escape routes when we encountered a
massive traffic backup on the Brooklyn/Queens Expressway, but unfortunately, all
of them were equally congested--not an uncommon occurrence around these parts.
Driving directions were on the money, and the TrueView pop-ups made them very
easy to follow. As advertised, the Magellan RoadMate 800's battery gave us close
to 4 hours of unplugged power before requiring a recharge.
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