Reviewed: Magellan RoadMate 860T Portable GPS Vehicle Navigation System

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Magellan RoadMate 860T Portable GPS Vehicle Navigation System

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The Magellan RoadMate 860T North America helps you get where you are going. It offers superior GPS guidance with easy to use touch screen menus and turn by turn voice prompts, as well as street names. fitted in depth street maps and pre loaded points of interest assist you find the nearest restaurant, gas station, ATM, airport and more. 3D views enable you to see your surroundings with distinctive onscreen icons which show close services. Enter each destination and optimize the most direct path between them from your current place. Simply touch an icon to view address and phone numbers so you may be able to call ahead for info and reservations. If traveling abroad is in your plans, this GPS system comes pre loaded with in depth maps of twenty seven European countries that may be unlocked for a fee. fitted NAVTEQ maps of the US and Canada Birds eye 3D view obviously see your surroundings Digital Music Player Play your beloved music through integrated speaker or included headphones Photo Viewer View your vacation pictures while you are still on vacation will include windshield mount Rechargeable battery Navigate and enjoy music and pictures away from your vehicle


While you are navigating your way to your next destination, there is no reason you can not entertain yourself along the way. The Magellan RoadMate 860T Multimedia GPS Travel friend allows you to do exactly that. With a fitted MP3 player and photo viewer, with Magellan's leading GPS navigation system, there is nothing quite like the RoadMate 860T for your next road trip. This unit keeps many of the features of the RoadMate , but adds something special, called Magellan TrafficKit. With TrafficKit, you may be able to get live traffic incident reports, which helps you improve your navigation decisions and quickly reroutes you around trouble spots.

Music and Photos On the Go
With ten GB of available interior memory, the RoadMate 860T will be sure you never run out of tunes. The Magellan Music Manager Tools software allows you to simply move your .MP3 and .WMA files from your computer to the unit, or you have the choice of inserting a Secure Digital SD or MMC card containing your digital files. Either way, you will have enough tunes to take you from L.A. to N.Y. and back. The RoadMate 860T allows you to easily browse your music, create playlists for MP3 files only, and change the sound to your personal liking with a digital equalizer. The RoadMate 860T's big 3.5 inch color display will also give you the resolution you have to enjoy your beloved digital photos. Simply move your files directly into the memory, or plug in your SD or MMC card, and sit back and enjoy.

Magellan Navigation
Of course, the RoadMate 860T's major function is to be sure you get to where you have to go. To get started, simply choose a destination and your RoadMate 860T GPS navigation system will take it from there. By agreeing letters to the available places, Magellan's QuickSpell address entry feature makes it simple and fast to enter destination addresses. An interior address book also stores up to 200 personal or business places for fast reference.

Advanced, state of art navigation software automatically calculates the most direct path and recalculates it whenever you take a detour or make extra stops. Routing alternatives enable you to decide the best path for you, if you want the shortest time or shortest distance, or if you want to stay on or off the freeway. The RoadMate 860T allows you to customize every trip exactly as you want. A distinctive SmartDetour feature will automatically path around stopped freeway traffic.

fitted in depth street maps and over six million pre loaded points of interest make it simple to find the nearest restaurant, gas station, ATM, airport and more. A simple touch screen menu allows you to easily decide a place by group or sub category. if you want to find the nearest Chinese restaurant, or the nearest movie theater for the kids, just touch the screen. It never been easier or more fun to get around town or take cross country trips.

With in depth maps of all 50 United States, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and Canada, you may be able to travel the continent with no have to download new data. A single seamless database fitted to the hard drive holds all big city streets also as federal, state and county roads and highways. And if traveling abroad is in your plans, this GPS system comes pre loaded with in depth maps of 27 European countries that may be unlocked for a fee.

When you want a clearer view of your path, simply touch the 3D map icon. This will get both a three dimensional representation, also as a bird's eye view, allowing you to obviously see cross streets and helping you to prepare for forthcoming turns. If that is not enough, a turn by turn voice and visual guidance feature tells you exactly when to make the next turn, and to confirm the voice information, the auto map zooms in to show your turn and switches to TrueView 3D so that you will make sure not to miss your turn. These auto functions make the RoadMate 860T one of the most useful navigation aids you will ever experience.

Add the Magellan TrafficKit to get live traffic incident reports that appear on the dynamic touch screen map. Touch an onscreen icon to view in depth info about the incident. You may also automatically reroute around accidents, slow downs, road work, serious weather conditions and more. The TrafficKit service will be available in the Summer of 2006 and it'll require a subscription.

If you have got a trip with many places lined up, the RoadMate 860T can optimize your travel plans. Use the Trip Planner feature to enter addresses or choose points of interest POI before leave. you may be able to decide the order of each destination, or you may be able to let the Multi destination path Optimization system compute the fastest path between each point from your present place. The feature also lets you to add and deduct places as you go, and you may be able to save your trip to repeat the same path again.

When you are traveling at night, the displayed map on the RoadMate 860T switches to night view at sundown, and back to day view in the morning. that means that you will generally have a clear view of where you are headed. With SmartVolume, the unit's volume automatically increases at speeds over 45 MPH, which means that voice and audio prompts are generally at the right level for maximum clearness.

Best of all, the RoadMate 860T is easy to install and is totally movable. you may be able to decide from a selection of mounting accessories, and there is no complex wiring obliged. You simply plug in the power cord and you are prepared to go. A fitted rechargeable battery allows you to take the unit where ever you have to go, and when you want to move it to another car, you simply unplug it from one car and plug it into another. it is that simple. At a mere 10.8 ounces in weight and 3.15 x 1.55 x 6.26 inches W x D x L in dimension, the RoadMate 860T is supposed to be taken wherever your travel plans require.



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