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The Magellan TrafficKit provides live traffic updates that enable you to avoid road construction, accidents, and other delays, plus it comes with a free 3-month subscription. The RoadMate 3000 provides the same easy-to-use touch screen and amazing features as the RoadMate 2000 with the addition of multi-media access so you can plug in your MP3 player and picture viewer. SmartVolume automatically increases the volume when your speed exceeds 45 mph. Preloaded with maps of 50 US states, Canada, and Puerto Rico and over 6 million points of interest. Has 4GB hard disk, SD card slot, integrated battery, and quick release cradle.

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For a remarkable, intelligently-designed multipurpose GPS navigation system that packs everything but the kitchen sink into a portable device, you can't go wrong with the Magellan RoadMate 3050T for North America. Equipped with preloaded software for use in the United States, including Puerto Rico, and Canada, the 3050T delivers comprehensive navigational coverage in an easy-to-use package to give you the best driving routes. The 3050T also provides a number of viewing and entertainment features to make your driving experiences the best they can be.

Made to be user-friendly, the Magellan 3050T has a 3.5-inch touch sensitive screen that displays vibrant colors and sharp images. Simple menus and smart keys provide quick access to the 3050T's features, which include preloaded detailed maps, bird's eye 3D viewing to give you a clear sense of your surroundings, and over six million points of interest such as gas stations, restaurants, ATMs, airports, parks, historic sites, museums, and much more. The 3050T lets you select up to 20 destinations and optimize the most direct route between them, as well as store your favorite locations for the trips you take frequently. You can also customize mapping selection with the 3050T, which lets you select routes based on driving time, distance, and traffic congestion, or exclude routes you prefer to avoid, such as toll roads.

The 3050T fits easily into any vehicle without the need for special installation and works at any hour of the day. The auto night view feature adjusts brightness and contrast for easy viewing at night, and the voice guidance option provides friendly turn-by-turn instructions to get you to your destination. With SmartVolume adjusting the sound level of your system when you speed up or slow down, the 3050T makes sure that the directions you get are clear and easy to understand. And for the first three months after your purchase of the RoadMate 3050T, you'll have a free subscription to Magellan's LlVE traffic reports. With detailed, up-to-date traffic incident reports at your fingertips, you'll be able to find alternate routes and avoid traffic congestion created by accidents, road construction, special events, and more.

ln addition to having the features that make it a first-class navigation system, the 3050T is also a music player and a picture viewer. Through the integrated speaker, the 3050T plays MP3 and WMA music files for your entertainment. And if you're outside your vehicle, you can also plug in a set of earphones to listen. (For safety reasons, please remember never to use earphones while driving.) The picture viewer is ideal for road trips with friends or family as well as for gatherings such as parties and picnics. Upload the pictures you've taken with your digital camera and you'll be able to share a slideshow with everyone right away.

Housed in a high-impact plastic case and able to operate in a temperature range of 32 to 113 degrees Fahrenheit (0 to 45 degrees Celsius), the 3050T is versatile and durable enough to go where you want to go. At 8.64 ounces and measuring 4.8 x 3.8 x 1.4 inches, the navigation system is extremely portable. The powerful 2100 mA rechargeable lithium ion battery provides up to six hours of continuous use. Multilingual options make the 3050T perfect for speakers of English, French, German, Spanish and ltalian.


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Buyer's feedback: - * Good product, poor support ...
Overall I like my Magellan 3050T as a roduct. It has saved me a lot of time & gas in finding addresses and routing around traffic. I recommended it to everyone, that is until I had to deal with tech support to get an out-of-date map upgrade.

Despite all of the promises, they don't call back, they'll escalate to supervisors who don't exist or don't care, and no matter how much data you give to Navteq about errata in the maps Magellan devices use, the updates and POI updates they provide will always be at least a year out of date. I've owned mine a little over a year and have been reporting all sorts of corrections, but the new data is still a year old so the corrections aren't in there.

My advice: find yourself a non-Magellan, modern GPS which can speak the names of the streets and yet still can grab the traffic updates.

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Buyer's feedback: - Magellan 3050T - Good GPS, reasonable mapsm, poor traffic warning system
I have owned this since Christmas. I also had a problem with a zoom button sticking, but got an exchange unit easily, that works very well. It was easy to set up and use.
I use this mainly in the NW, from OR anf WA to BC Canada. I have also taken it on business trips to MA, TN, CA, CT.
It works very well in urban areas, but the map can be inaccurate or even misleading in rural areas. It is no good for traveling around logging roads in Oregon. It does not distinguish between private and public roads, and if anything it actually makes it easier to get lost - I have experienced the GPS suddenly recalibrating and advising that you should drive 5 miles to "the route" but with no indication how to do so.

POI quite good but not comprehensive. E.g. shows about 4 gas stations or ATM out of 6 in a given area.

Biggest disappointment is that there does not seem to be any map updates available. The web site said there would be updates in June, now postponed to September, but still nothing. It would also be better if you could scan or pan across the map on the screen of the unit.

The traffic kit is useless, at least in along the I5 from Portland to Seattle to Vancouver BC. It will tell you if there are road works, but I have never had it give advance warning of a traffic jam or roadblock. Maybe in other areas it works OK.

Battery lasts about 2 hours.

I have only had to use tech service once, and they responded quickly and knowledgeably.

Overall this is an easy to use and reliable GPS, the traffic kit is not too good, and it would be better if you could download newer maps. I think it a little expensive for what it delivers.

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Buyer's feedback: - * Great GPS for the money ...
I purchased two of these GPS systems. This was well worth the money. None of these GPS's are 'perfect', but I recommend the Magellen 3050T.

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Buyer's feedback: - Not bad
We use our RoadMate 3050T on our motorcycle, attached to the handlebars with a "Ram" mount designed to hold the Roadmate. I didn't really trust it at first because the RoadMate cradle was just plastic but after over 7000 miles of bumps it seems as secure as when we first put it on. Ram mounts are great and they make them for cars as well, something you might consider if you can't use the suction cup mounting setup included with the 3050T.


I upgraded the firmware on our 3050T to version 3.11 and will probably upgrade to the new maps when they come out in September of '07. I do not use the traffic kit as we don't travel most of the cities covered by that service.

It seems that on cloudy days the unit has more trouble , depending on number of trees in the area, it may take a long time to setup - this is important because some times, especially on cloudy days our 3050T seems to freeze up, we may be miles down the road and realize this and need to turn it off and back on again to get things going again. This did mess us up one time because we missed the turn off we needed because it was froze up. We seem to have more problems with it in the first half hour or so, many times it freezes up a few miles down the road and after rebooting it is ok again.

It seems to get us to our destination, but not always the best way. I also loaded a personal POI file of all the Harley dealers and it lets us know when we are withing 1 mile of any dealer. If you are in a parking lot it is more difficult to see which way to go - it will say "proceed to route" - now this may be easily seen with good eyes, but I need to stop and put on reading glasses to read the smaller details. Many times I "proceeded to route" to find I started out wrong and had to make a U turn. Once underway it seems OK. Yes, it does annoy you with "make a U turn" when you don't turn where it planned, but in the end it recalculates and finds another way - I set mine up for 2 miles for a detour.

With the exception of very bright direct sunlight, I can usually see the maps pretty easily and the screen does bring up a big arrow to let you know ahead of time a turn is near- I don't use the split screen and the arrow fill the entire display with the name of the road almost big enough for me to read without my reading glasses.

In congested areas , such as cloverleafs with several ways to go it seems to be off a little on when to turn, you really need to pay attention to the road signs at that point.

Overall, I like it, use it every time we ride providing it isn't raining hard enough to make it wet.Many times it has gotten us out of areas we were in that were new and strange and we had no idea where we were going. Likewise many times I was able to use the maps to find a way around traffic congestion.

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Buyer's feedback: - * Accurate, affordable GPS navagation ...
Before purchasing the 3050T, I ran some others GPS devices thru their paces. I've had a Palm based system and a laptop based system, plus I bought a 2000T just prior to purchasing this one. The Palm based unit was accurate and had good maps, but I didn't like having to load which maps I might need prior to a trip; I just wanted to go. Plus the Palm system lacked enough horsepower for a quick re-route. The PC laptop system used the same CD based mapping software and had plenty of power for a re-route, plus having a 15 inch screen for map viewing was nice. The drawback was it really needed to be manned by a copilot and the bulk of the laptop and it's charging cables were a hassle. So I resigned myself to buy a purpose built GPS. A friend had a Garmin and I found the interface easy to use, but the price hard to swallow. My father has had a Magellan for years, so I first looked to the 2000T due to its price point. The 2000T was a nice unit and easy to install and use, but my big fingers often struggled pressing the screen based buttons, especially ones near the edge of the screen. I also struggled to touch only 1 button at times. So the 2000T was returned after only a day of trial and I looked to the 3050T, which has real buttons. I'm very happy with the 3050T. It's buttons are just what I needed. As with other reviewers, I wish the keyboard was qwerty, but it isn't a deal breaker for me. I actually like the interface on the 2000T a little better as items more often used are easier to get to, but if you desire real buttons the 3050T is the way to go. My problems with the 3050T have all been self-inflicted. The biggest being that I selected the wrong mapping area and the nearest Outback Steakhouse was 1600+ miles away... ...in Puerto Rico. As soon as I had figured out my error, all was well, but it required me to stop the car and go through the menus. It's not wise to attempt to configure or reconfigure your GPS at 75 mph on the freeway. The 3050T is much like other GPS units in that it really prefers using freeways and more established roads. It's for your own safety and keeps you closer to established POIs. Despite having routing options like "Most use of freeways", "Least use of freeways", "Shortest time" and "Shortest distance, I would still like one more, "The road less traveled" or maybe "Time is no issue". Sticking to the major thoroughfares is no way to experience the United States.