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Magellan RoadMate 700 - Magellan RoadMate¿ 700 Car GPS Receiver I have had my Magellan RoadMate for three months now, and have no regrets. The RoadMate now comes with a USB cabl...

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The RoadMate 700 is by no means worth its price. A device this expensive should have an excellent user interface with many features, making it easy to get any information you want and to use that information.

There is no way to specify multiple destinations and combine them into a route that goes to each of them.

Only one route exclusion is remembered and used at a time. For example, suppose Maple Street is under construction, and the RoadMate picks a route that uses part of Maple. If you exclude that part, it might pick a route that uses a different part of Maple. If you exclude that part, the RoadMate tries to use the first part again.

At least one street was not displayed on the map until I actually turned onto it, and at least one other was not fully displayed even while I was on it, and some cross streets are not labeled even when there appears to be room on the screen.

The documentation does not describe some functions, such as assigning priorities to addresses in the address book or picking stops from the displayed map. (The latter is possible but difficult, and I see no good way to jump to a particular town to start looking for a destination.)

There is no easy option to remember the current location to be used as a future destination.

Locations cannot be entered using ZIP codes or two-letter states codes.

The speaker hisses at some times when no announcement is being made.

The RoadMate 700 does not come with an AC power adapter, so you cannot prepare addresses or a route indoors.

If you prepare the RoadMate 700 while your car is partially turned on to run accessories, and then you start the engine (which, on many cars, briefly cuts accessory power), the RoadMate 700 reboots. It should have small batteries to run for a few seconds, or at least stop for a few seconds and then resume where it left off.

The RoadMate 700 is slow to respond to controls at times.

The buttons are hard to press. Their surfaces are level with adjacent buttons, so you have to press them in, not just down. Some of the buttons are small, so this is difficult. As others have mentioned, the repeat-announcement button is particularly awkward — I say atrociously awkward.

Power is wasted lighting up the buttons. That might be nice at night, but it wouldn’t be as necessary if the buttons were fewer, larger, and separated from each other. (The RoadMate could make do with fewer buttons because it does not use the buttons it has well.) The light for the power button is much larger than it needs to be, which is a distraction and a waste.

The scroll bars show a standard thumb that can be dragged, but the thumb snaps back to its starting location when dropped, without scrolling the window.

The user interface is generally poor, not allowing many useful interactions and wasting screen space and buttons.

Hudson, New Hampshire, did not appear in the list of cities, perhaps because it is a town. That would exclude large parts of many states.

There is no provision to receive addresses from address books in common software such as Microsoft Outlook.

After being disappointed with the RoadMate 700, I downloaded and examined the manual for the Streetpilot 2620. It appears to display much more information and to do so flexible, and it has more features, such as sorting multiple destinations to give the shortest total route.

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