Magellan RoadMate 800 GPS
Posted on Oct 6, 05 01:08 AM PDT

The new Magellan RoadMate 800 is a portable navigation system that comes with a 3.5” color touch screen, music player, and photo viewer. The 20GB HDD can hold not only music and video, but also maps, turn-by-turn text and voice prompts. A SD/MMC slot is available for easy access to photos/music, and USB 2.0 connectivity is standard. For $1000 (ouch!), you get the RoadMate 800, a suction-cup windshield mount and cradle, USB cable, AC adapter, headphones, and a vehicle power adapter. (specs below)
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• Battery Type: 1350mA Li Ion rechargeable• USB: 2.0
• Map Sofware: Ready to use detailed maps of the United States, Canada and Europe. Additional fee required to unlock European maps
• Plug-n-Play: Seamless map built-in and ready to use
• Map Coverage: The 50 United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, the US Virgin Islands and 27 European countries. Additional fee required to unlock Europe
• User Interface: Touch Screen or dynamic keypad input
• Display: High Resolution TFT LCD full color display automatically adjusts to lighting changes
• Display Size: (H/W) 2.2 in x 2.91in/55.8 mm x 73.9 mm
• Route Calculator: Choose from four different route methods: Shortest Time, Shortest Distance, Least Use of Freeways, Most use of Freeways. You may also choose Avoid Toll Roads
• Turn-by-Turn Navigation: 3D 'Bird's Eye' map view gives you a three dimensional representation of the road ahead while voice prompts politely gives turn-by-turn guidance in 11 languages (French, UK and US English, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish)
• Route Recalculation: Automatically calculates new route when car deviates from route
• Multi-Destination Routing: Create and save multi-destination trips. Use route optimization to determine the quickest way between stops or choose your own order.
• Track Progress on Map: Dynamically tracks progress on the onscreen map
• QuickSpell® Technology: Simplifies data entry by pre-determining letters when spelling street and city names
• Address Book: Holds 200 addresses
• Points-of-Interest: Over 6 million points of interest and up to 1 million custom POIs
• Weight & Dimensions: 307g/10.8oz , Length 159.1mm/6.26in, Width 80.1mm/3.15in, Depth 39.4mm/1.55in
• Portable True plug-n-play in any region
• Mapping Data Provided by NAVTEQ®
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