The Magellan RoadMate 1470 GPS device boasts a unique 4.7-inch color touchscreen and ultra-thin design, delivering powerful navigation in a compact package. This easy-to-use device gives you confidence while on the road with premium features, including AAA TourBook, highway lane assist, spoken street names, multi-destination routing, and pre-loaded maps of North America.
Powerful navigation in a compact package. Click to enlarge.
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The exclusive Magellan OneTouch personalized search icons let you easily bookmark favorite destinations so you can find them anywhere you travel. Find your favorite café or restaurant in any city with a single touch. The RoadMate 1470 device delivers your favorites at your fingertips. Features include :
- Ability to personalize OneTouch search icons with your favorite places
- Announces street names and directions at each turn
- Ultra-wide 4.7-inch touchscreen display
- AAA TourBook and Roadside Assistance menu
- Permits multi-destination routing
- Maps of United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico
4.7-Inch Color Touchscreen
The large wide-format color touchscreen shows your position on the map, route, destination, ETA, surrounding Points of Interest (POI), signal strength, next maneuver, street names, and more–all at a glance.
6 million Points of Interest
Easily find what you need. Gas stations, restaurants, hotels, ATMs, and hundreds of other businesses and services are intuitively categorized and searchable from the built-in POI database. Most include the phone number.
Expanded NAVTEQ Maps
Travel the entire United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada with all the maps you need, pre-loaded on the device.
Brilliant 4.7-inch touchscreen. Click to enlarge.
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Announces street names and directions at each turn. Click to enlarge.
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Easily find what you need from the built-in POI database. Click to enlarge.
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Add Traffic Link for live traffic info. Click to enlarge.
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Text-to-Speech
Hear street names with every voice direction and have a clear understanding of when to make the next turn while you keep your eyes on the road.
Intuitive User Interface
Bold, intuitive menu options make it easy to pick destinations and choose how you navigate, without even reading the instructions.
Ultra-Thin Design
Uniquely stylish and compact, it’s easy to transfer your Magellan GPS between vehicles, or toss it in a suitcase to take anywhere.
QuickSpell with MultiCity Search
Enter destinations with a few keystrokes. QuickSpell searches locations and checks spelling to provide you with a simple list of available destinations.
Auto NightView
Color and contrast adjusts automatically for easy viewing at night.
Multi-Destination Routing
Select several destinations and choose the order to plan a trip in advance and repeat the same trip again. Easily reorganize, add, or remove destinations.
Add Traffic Link for Live Traffic Info
Stop sitting in traffic waiting for traffic updates on your favorite radio station. Traffic Link will alert you on current traffic conditions for the area in which you are travelling. Simply plug in the Traffic Link device to your compatible Magellan GPS device, and you’ll receive free information on the type of incident (e.g., accident or slow traffic), status of surrounding freeways/interstates, and approximate time until you come upon the issue. With the touch of a button, Traffic Link will provide you with an alternate route so that you can avoid delays, saving time and money.
With the Traffic Link service, you’ll also receive special offers from premium vendors. Simply touch the information on the screen to obtain details on how to take advantage of the various deals being provided. Stop sitting in traffic. Get Traffic Link, turn it on, and go! Features include :
- Free automatic traffic updates for life!
- Intuitive user interface clearly displays traffic events
- Reroutes you around reported traffic jams
- Valuable promotional offers from premium vendors
What’s in the Box
Magellan RoadMate 1470 GPS receiver; pre-loaded maps of United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico; windshield mount; adhesive disc for dash mounting; vehicle power adapter; USB cable; user handbook; user manual on CD-ROM
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Seems my magellan has to many problems to fix. Tech support is terrible. They want to replace my new GPS with a reconditioned one. Can you imagine and they want me to pay for the shipping! After 30 days they will not give you another new one and they feel they have enough customers to treat you like dirt! So RUN don’t walk away and choose another product!
This is *not* my first GPS. I’ve owned and used a Garmin, TomTom and VW in-dash unit during my short lifetime. And I have to say I found this to be the most frustrating piece of electronic device I have paid for. Ever. If I could smash this thing to pieces I would. In this age of being able to research and read thousand of reviews before making any kind of purchase, I’m disappointed that I didn’t catch this *** before i paid for it. Let’s go over the Magellan’s so-called ‘highlights’:
* Ability to personalize OneTouch search icons with your favorite places
– Absolutely no need for this. If it’s your favorite place, it’s going to be in your previous address history list. Why go waste time putting it on the main menu?
* Announces street names and directions at each turn
-like somebody else pointed out (but I seriously doubted) the street name voice level and the turn-by-turn voice level are NOT the same volume. I could not believe this was an issue. My old as dirt Magellan Roadmate760 did not have this problem. Suffice to say, you would have to set the volume to the least acceptable level for the teeny tiny speaker. Anything louder and it cracks. So at its most acceptable, the car has to be completely quiet with the radio off and the windows up because otherwise, you’re not even going to hear the GPS.
* Ultra-wide 4.7-inch touchscreen display
-the screen is 4.7 inches but the icons do not maximize it at all. It could have been a 3in screen and wouldn’t matter. The worst part is the car icon. It gets bigger when you zoom out of the map. So let’s say you zoom out of the map to a 10mile view so you can see the surrounding roads… well, you can’t because the car icon would be covering 25% of center of the GPS. You’re not even going to be able to see how far off the turn you are relative to the car’s position. This is unacceptable. It looks likes a first time GPS programmer designing the layout for his/her first-ever GPS.
– the lane guidance is Ok. It has led astray a couple of times so I wanted to see where the map was going by zooming out.. well, you can’t. Once it’s engaged, you’d have to wait until after the turn before you can access the map again. Grrrreat.
-I got to the 3D map view by accident. I spent 30mins trying to get back to it to turn it off. (while on an active navigation, touch anywhere on the map and it’ll give you the option for 2d or 3d).
* AAA TourBook and Roadside Assistance menu
-I wanted this to work but the few times I tried searching by name, nothing came up. Meaning it kept searching.. searching.. searching. It wasn’t because the place didn’t exist, it was because the unit is S L O W. I fired up google maps on my phone and found it in no time. We even had time to call the place, verify they were still open and subsequently texted the address to our friends. And the unit was still searching.
* Permits multi-destination routing
-When they said multi they meant one main destination and one other alternate destination that you can keep inputting. Not as I was expecting from older Magellan RM760 — up to 10 destinations inputted at one time and optimized by the unit.
* Maps of United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico
-GPS does acqurie a signal pretty quick. But there’s that issue where the unit just SHUTS OFF for no reason at all. I’d like to think I’m tech savvy but I cannot replicate why the reason this unit does this out of the blue. So even if it has all these maps, you can’t even use it if the things is off. I’ve started looking over the turn-by-turn list ahead of time so I’m not caught off guard when the unit shuts off and I have no idea which way to take.
So don’t make the same mistake I did. Stay away from Magellan in general, and this 1470 unit in particular.
Started using this on a trip to Orlando. It replaced a TomTom that I couldn’t update, it was THAT old. Works well. Only drawback is that it doesn’t give gas prices. “Maggie” also tends to be a little nagging at times. Glad I bought it.
Let me first say I’m impressed with the overall quality of this product. The 4.7″ screen is large and bright, shows a lot of information and is an overall good device when it works properly. The feature which displays exit signs before you reach an exit is also quite helpful, and the processing speed is nice as well, it doesn’t skip around a lot and gets good frames per second.
The major issue I have with the Magellan Roadmate is connectivity. About half of the time I turn on the device and select ‘view map’ or program in route guidance, I just get the ‘Acquiring Signal’ message, and it never actually gets the signal. Restarting the device occasionally fixes the issue but I don’t consider it to be very reliable because of this exact issue.
I like the device and will continue to use it, but I can’t really recommend it because of the poor signal reliability.
I have a Garmin Nuvi 765T in one of my vehicles and I like it very much. I bought the roadmate for the other vehicle. I like almost everything about the roadmate except the brightness of the screen. I would have given this product a 5 star across the board rating except for the screen and the manual. I don’t really care about the manual because the product functions similar to the Garmin and I could figure it out quickly. If the screen was brighter I would be a very happy camper.