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I can buy a new Garmin with a larger screen for about $120.00.Given this, I would not recommend this unit to anyone. However, they have come down a bit. The cost of the antenna about $20.00 to $24.00 if bought from anyone but Magellan.The maps are quite bad and the updates are expensive. Sending it for repair, is another cost which I do not know what that would cost. The unit functions OK but the antenna is not sufficient. An external antenna does the job and I now get a good signal. Now about $60.00 and from what I understand, the installation is difficult and may result in a dead unit.
Otherwise, Magellan is a good brand to have. My only complaint is the size. I brought this navigator a few years back and it still works fine. Function wise, it is OK. Why make it so clumsy.
Magellan needs a new product name - maybe Columbus instead. I'm about to throw it out since my husband just bought a Garmin Nuvi for his car and it is SO MUCH better. I've owned this Roadmate for almost a year. It is constantly in "thinking" mode and never updates my position quickly enough (sometimes it takes up to 15 minutes) and I've only traveled 5 miles from my last destination. We traveled over 100 miles and it found us within 1 minute.
I have had it for almost three years now and it has never let me down. There are so many features on here so you get a lot for the dollar.
Other than those this is a flawless unit. I can honestly say that when I have been to a new town that i'm not familiar with my 760 has never let me down.
My only problem is that I have lost my antenna, and I can't find one anywhere, so I was forced to by an external high performance antenna. My only drawback is that I wish it had built in traffic link, and bluetooth.
I love my magellan 760 roadmate. The screen is easy to read, and the buttons are easy to use.
I have had those moments where i didn't know anything about where i was going and had to rely solely on my 760 and it was a success each and every time.
I am unloading mine ASAP , and going to repurchase a Garmin, and hope that the scumbag that stole my Garmin from my truck get Ricketts, Herpes, Malaria and any other plague he/she runs into. Time to destination: the 760 says XX minutes, my last Garmin showed I would arrive at 10:38am or whatever time AND show minutes to destination, but the the WORST thought up blunder of this unit is you can download music MP3 files into the device and connect to your car stereo ala mini headphone jack, BUT YOU CAN'T play the music files AND navigate at the same time, it is one OR the other. Why you ask would I say get a Garmin. When you are navigating, there is no speed shown on the screen (big thing I miss), when you come to a turn or a destination, the device will only tell you.1 mile, not XX feet as the Garmin does. That is just BAD design IMHO.
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