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- Reviewed on: 05/31/2006
The 3.5-inch color display is bright and easy to read in any lighting environment, and the touch screen is very responsive. To the right of the screen is a series of function buttons for zooming in and out of map screens, selecting destinations, viewing your current location, selecting or canceling menu options, and accessing the User Options screen where you can change settings and view trip statistics. There's also an eight-way rocker switch used for map panning and selecting menu items. All controls are intuitive and easy to use, but if we could add one thing to the wish list, it would be a dedicated volume knob. The internal speaker is certainly loud enough to hear voice-guided directions and turn alerts, but to adjust the volume, you have to enter changes through the settings menu.
The flip-up patch antenna is positioned on top of the RoadMate 360, while the USB and power connector ports are mounted on the left. Located behind a protective rubber cover on the bottom of the device is an SD card slot, and you'll find a headphone jack on the right. Magellan packages the RoadMate 360 with all the standard accessories, including a 12-volt cigarette-lighter power adapter, a suction cup mounting arm, an AC power adapter, and a USB cable for uploading new firmware and software releases. A CD containing a reference manual is included in the box.The Magellan RoadMate 360 features a 14-channel WAAS-enabled (Wide Area Augmentation System) receiver and comes with an SD card preloaded with detailed maps of the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. The unit offers all the standard GPS capabilities you'd expect in a vehicle navigation device, such as voice- and text-guided directions, automatic rerouting, a 2 million points-of-interest (POI) database, and instant routing from a POI or address book entry. That said, the RoadMate 360 lacks a number of features found in similarly priced competitors, such as the Lowrance iWay 350c.
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