The Magellan GPS Roadmate 1440
the widescreen version of the 1340

The Magellan GPS Roadmate 1440 was introduced April, 2009 and comes with many desirable features for the traveler.

The 4.3" color, touch wide- screen automatically adjusts its' color and contrast for easy night viewing. You are provided with preloaded maps of North America and Puerto Rico. The AAA TourBook® is also included and provides ratings and descriptions on AAA approved places to stay, play, dine, and save. With a AAA membership you can also take advantage of the AAA Member Roadside Assistance™ which gets you help fast with a toll-free member service number to assist you in finding a AAA approved tow truck or repair shop. The menu also shows your exact GPS location so you can provide precise information to your location. Click HERE to find out more on this service.

Also included are millions of Points of Interest. You can search the POIs by "Highway exit POIs" which shows you gas stations, restaurants, hotels, and more near upcoming highway exits. Or you can search by "Branded POIs" which display your favorite coffee shops, restaurants, and more by their respective logos. If you would like to add your own POIs you can do so with the included address book.

Creating a route to your desired destination has been made easier with QuickSpell®, which with SmartCity search, narrows your address and city searches, making destination entry easy. It can anticipate your entry and complete it for you. Or you can touch your destination on the displayed map screen and then directly routing to it. Multi-destination routing with route optimization lets you plan your trip with multiple stops in the order you want or optimize a trip for the most efficient route, saving you time and money. Great for deliveries or sales calls. You can even customize your route by selecting the shortest distance, fastest time, most use of freeways, or least use of freeways. Should you make a wrong turn or miss a turn along the way, "Automatic re-route" gets you quickly back on track.

The Magellan GPS Roadmate OneTouch™ favorites menu affords instant access to your personalized bookmarks of favorite places and searches anywhere you travel. With a single touch, find your favorite café or restaurant when you're traveling within any city. Text to speech is also included with this Magellan GPS Roadmate enabling the unit to announce the name of the street on which you should turn, in addition to when and what direction to turn. Also included are highway lane assist signs showing highway signs to point you in the right direction when approaching interchanges and exits, and ensuring that you'll choose the correct lane well before your next turn. This is a real blessing in high traffic areas such as beltways.

The Magellan GPS Roadmate 1440 is also compatible with Magellan's Traffic Link which will provide live, onscreen traffic notification updates. The receiver and subscription to the service must be purchased separately as it is not included in the purchase price. Click HERE to determine if your area is covered by the Traffic Link service. The 1440 comes with a rechargeable lithium ion battery giving you the freedom to drive wireless or plan your trip when your vehicle's engine is turned off. A word of caution, the unit come with a dash mounting disc which enables you to use the suction cup mount on your dash. If you affix the disc to the dash, don't plan on removing it. Those things really stick.

Introduced: April 2009
Unit Dimensions: 3.3" H x 4.6" W x 0.7" D (8.45cm H x 11.6cm W x 1.81cm D)
Display Size: 4.3" diag
Display Resolution: 480 x 272 pixels
Display Type: WQVGA full-color, anti-glare touch-screen display
Weight: 6.03 oz (.17 kg)
Battery: Recharageable Lithium-ion
Battery Life: Up to 3 hours
Waterproof: no

What's in the Box:

Magellan GPS RoadMate 1440 receiver
Pre-loaded maps of United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico
Windshield mount
Adhesive disc for dash mounting
Vehicle power adapter
USB cable
User handbook
User manual on CD-ROM

Note: The state of Minnesota prohibits the installation of portable GPS units on the windshield of your vehicle.

Owner Reviews

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By Ryan Fileus, May 6, 2009

This is a great piece of equipment. The CPU on this G.P.S. is very fast. Route calculation is fast and accurate. If you live in New Jersey and travel on the Parkway/Turnpike/Route 80, Lane Guidance works perfectly.

I drive 700-800 miles a week an and this is a must have. I did not want a unit with Bluetooth or FM Transmitter which is missing from this unit, and maybe that's the reason it works so well. The 3D map is amazing unlike the Roadmate 1412. After 25 miles of driving, a message popup saying that the G.P.S. needs to reboot to improve performance after that I haven't seeing any other issues so far.

The map in night mode is also a great improvement over the Roadmate 1412 and not too bright. I have owned a garmin 660 and a magellan roadmate 1412(horrible G.P.S. unit) and I have to congratulate Magellan on this one. Great product so far.

I would recommend this unit to anyone who is in the market for a great Navigation unit at a reasonable price.

May 7 2009 ***** About the Reboot

I called magellan today May 7th and they said that there is patch coming out on May 8th to fix the Lane Guidance which is the cause of the reboot.

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By D. NEWTON "duke", April 24, 2009

Was excited about receiving this product, seemed to have a lot of features for the price. Well, didn't turn out so well for me. I decided to navigate myself to work just to test it out. The unit plotted the course just fine from my home, but for some reason had me located one block over. Then it kept telling me to turn to meet up with the fictitious position it had me in.

Not deterred, I stayed true to course and it finally caught up with me and navigated just fine. Coughed it up to first use shake out. When I returned from work I decided to give it another shot. Everything started great, completed about 90% of the trip then froze up. Thought about re-booting, but let it unfreeze, which it did in about 5 minutes. I'm still hanging in there, it's new so it will work itself out, NOT!!! Froze up again 10 minutes later. To it's credit, it realized it was crewing up and displayed a message that it must re-boot to optimize navigation. I'm like cool, okay, now we are getting somewhere. It re-booted and BAM! froze up again where it remains.

I will return it, but don't think I will try this model again.

BestBuy

By Anonymous Reviewer, 04/23/2009

I purchased this today as it is made with the Neverlost technology that is used by Hertz. It is a pretty decent unit. The only issue in the last three hours is that when I type in an address, sometimes it will pause/freeze on the letter.

The only other issue is that it doesn't have every thing on the preloaded maps. I was in the parking lot of FedEx and the closest location that it pulled up was five miles away.

Owner Ratings - Magellan GPS Roadmate 1440

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