Magellan RoadMate 760 Portable GPS Navigator

Magellan RoadMate 760 Portable GPS Navigator

MAGELLAN RoadMate 760 — GPS continues to help you find your way where ever you are. Imagine having a personal assistant in your car, guiding you turn by turn, with a friendly voice and visual signals, even when you don’t know the address. Magellan RoadMate 760 is another step towards refining GPS vehicle guidance to help optimize your driving experiences. With advanced software and a larger memory to support it, travelling new byways and highways and getting where you want to go has just reached a friendlier, easier level. Whether you’re going across the country on vacation or across town for dinner, you’ll get there with a new level of assurance using this advanced auto navigation system. It’s the only system built on technologies road-tested and proven by over 4 million drivers in rental cars with Hertz NeverLost navigation systems. And it’s truly easy to set up and use. When compared to the RoadMate 700, the 760 has a built-in hard drive that has a 20GB capacity instead of 10. That allows space for more mapping software. Advanced software is also included and adds the convenience of synthesized ‘Street name’ anounce as part of the voice guidance system. This helps make following the directions from RoadMate 760 easier and more intuitive. Trust Magellan to continue making GPS a greater wonder and more powerful tool. Turn-by-turn navigation Route recalculation calculates new route when car deviates from route Dynamically tracks progress on the onscreen map QuickSpell technology pre-determines letters when spelling street and city names Enhanced Voice Guidance adds street names to directions as a friendlier reference to help you reach your destination Includes universal mount&cigarette lighter adapter

User Ratings and Reviews

3 Stars Not too helpful, but better than nothing
Big, bulky, but not terrible. Unfortunately when I called the Customer Service people to say that all of the sudden, for no apparent reason it just doesn’t work any longer, they said, “sorry, but there’s nothing we can do.”

I liked some of the features, but, man, if the thing doesn’t work, I’m stuck.

So- I bought a Tom-Tom One from RadioShack for $150. What a deal, and way better than the RoadMate.

3 Stars Old, Clunky, Slow As Molasses, But Works
This is an old unit. It’s big. The operating system is slow. It will freeze every once in a while. Magellan is TERRIBLE about their map updating. Magellan has TERRIBLE offshore customer support. I don’t care if customer service is off shore, but let me talk to somebody who is empowered to solve my problems.

But even with it’s old school computer voice, and now 2 year old maps… it works and it’s better than not having a GPS.

However, in 2008… get a Garmin.

5 Stars Smart unit
Tons of POI and smart. Very intuitive about traffic and traffic patterns, where the slow traffic is and during what times.

2 Stars okay product
did not like this product. takes time to calculate the position during start up. In today’s world, it might be worthwhile investing products like Iphone instead of a navigator

3 Stars Good, But with exceptions
The RoadMate 760 works as expected except for a couple problems. You can’t use a MAC to update the maps, only a Windows PC. Also, if you attach it to the windshield with the suction cup (as directed) on a bright, hot sunny day it will overheat and shut down until it cools off.