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Remanufactured Magellan RoadMate 300 Vehicle GPS Navigation System

Lowest Price: $339.98

Building on the success of the RoadMate 500 and 700, Magellan’s RoadMate 300 is a powerful GPS navigational tool that can easily guide you on your next automotive adventure. The system makes navigation easy and fun, with friendly voice prompting, preloaded maps of major North American roads, turn-by-turn guidance, and the latest touchscreen technology–all at a great price.

Features
The RoadMate 300 is billed as the first vehicle navigation device made for everyone, but that doesn’t mean Magellan has scrimped on features. Designed from top to bottom for simplicity and ease of use, its user interface is the same as that found in the Hertz NeverLost system and the RoadMate 700.

Quickly locate amenities and points of interest along your route.

It uses powerful, 14-channel GPS positioning that’s accurate to within three meters thanks to Magellan’s TrueFix technology. Turn-by-turn voice prompts guide you on your way and automatically recalculate your route when you get off track, while intelligent routing lets you plan a trip based on shortest travel time, most or least use of freeways, or avoidance of tolls.

Meanwhile, the locate feature displays your current location and allows you to save it to the address book. Finally, you can select destinations by entering an address or intersection, selecting an address from the address book, touching a point on the map, or by choosing from more than 1.7 million points of interest like airports, gas stations, and restaurants. All of these features make the RoadMate 300 a snap to use right out of the box.

Design
Weighing in at just under nine ounces and with an integrated GPS antenna, the RoadMate 300 is compact and portable. The tough, rubberized exterior is built for abuse, while the 3.5-inch TFT color touchscreen makes address entry easy–no need for an awkward stylus. The intuitive keypad is backlit and highly visible, night or day. A headphone jack lets you catch the next turn command in a car full of noisy kids.

Connectivity and Expansion

You can also choose a map view, or the maneuver list.

While maps of major North American roads–including those in Hawaii and Puerto Rico–are stored in the unit’s 128 MB of internal memory, you can add more detailed maps of specific areas to your available internal memory or through the SecureDigital card expansion slot (SD card not included). Using your Windows PC and a USB connection, the RoadMate 300 can be loaded with predefined routes from included trip-planning software, or you can load addresses from your Outlook contact list for easy mapping of the locations of clients, coworkers, and friends. You can also play back and view data from trips you’ve already taken, or have the unit speak in one of six languages in addition to American English: French, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch, or British English.

What’s in the Box
The Magellan RoadMate 300 unit with integrated GPS antenna, PC software, a quick-start guide, a basic reference guide, a complete manual on CD, a USB cable, a cigarette-lighter adapter, and a windshield mount.

Magellan eXplorist 600 Hand Held Color GPS Receiver

Lowest Price: $250.00

Complete with 8 MB built-in mapping and unlimited flash-memory expansion, Magellan’s eXplorist 600 is one of the first handheld GPS receivers to deliver PC-like file management, rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, and a PC application designed specifically for transferring geocache information from the Internet to the eXplorist in case you want to participate in the popular Web-based outdoor activity called geocaching (essentially a treasure hunt where the challenge isn’t finding the treasure, it’s getting to it).

The eXplorist 600 is an ideal GPS guidance tool–both in the city and in the country. It’s the first in its class to deliver unlimited SD card memory expansion through a built-in Secure Digital memory card reader/writer. The handheld also provides unlimited storage of waypoints, routes, and track logs via SD card. Any available memory can be used to store whatever you want–a refreshing change from those receivers with fixed and limited waypoint, route, and track-log storage.

The exclusive PC-style file-management feature lets you create multiple files, folders, and directories so you can store and navigate information in a PC-like structure. Also a first: the receiver gives you the ability to calculate an area and perimeter simply by marking points on the map screen.

Magellan geocaching manager software greatly simplifies geocaching (one of the fastest-growing GPS applications) so you no longer need to print information from a Web site only to have to manually enter the GPS coordinates into your receiver. Instead, you can load that information to your eXplorist so its accessible where it’s needed most–to guide you right to cache treasures.

A high-speed USB data port lets you upload geocache coordinates and optional maps. Other features include a color transflective TFT screen, a barometer, an altimeter, a thermometer, and a 3-axis electronic compass (which eliminates the need to be in motion to get a direction heading).

Despite the eXplorist’s wealth of features, it nevertheless resides in a compact, waterproof housing (IPX-7) at a weight of less than 4 ounces for fit-in-your-pocket convenience. The receiver boasts a large, 2.3-inch-diagonal backlit display; built-in maps of major roads, waterways, parks, and airports; the ability to calculate vertical profiles for elevations of roads, and trails; and a WAAS/EGNOS-enabled, 14-parallel-channel GPS receiver that delivers 3-meter accuracy with fast, reliable position fixes.

The Magellan eXplorist 600 is compatible with most Magellan MapSend software products (so you can add street detail, topographic data, marine navigation information, and other info), including MapSend Topo 3D USA, MapSend Topo Canada, MapSend Lakes USA, MapSend Worldwide Basemap, and MapSend DirectRoute, plus international titles.

Magellan eXplorist series Swivel Mounting Bracket

Lowest Price: $19.99

Conveniently mount your Magellan eXplorist series GPS receiver in your car, truck, boat or virtually any vehicle. This easy-to-install mounting bracket securely holds your receiver for optimal viewing while on-road, off-road, or on the water; wherever your adventure takes you.

Magellan eXplorist Bike Mounting Bracket

Lowest Price: $22.58

CONVENIENTLY MOUNT YOUR MAGELLAN EXPLORIST SERIES GPS RECEIVER

Magellan 730348 USB Serial Accessory Ada

Lowest Price: $33.50

Converts DB-9 connection on standard Magellan data cable accessories to USB connection. Supports desktop and laptop computers that do not include a DB-9 connector.

Magellan MapSend Worldwide Basemap

Lowest Price: $68.38

Cut And Download A Second Basemap Covering Any Region Of The World Into A Magellan Mapping Gps Receiver. Users Can Switch Between The Original Built-in Basemap And The New Downloaded Map As Needed. Details Include Political Boundaries, Major Roads And Highways, Railroads, And Points Of Interest. The Application Also Contains User Functions To Manage Waypoints And Routes. * Reference-ID: EB01_20095

Magellan RoadMate GPS Windshield Mount

Lowest Price: $4.98

Easily attach your Magellan RoadMate to the interior of your windshield to hold it firmly in place just above the dashboard. The fully adjustable arm enables you to position your Magellan RoadMate at just the right distance and angle for convenient viewing and operation. Quickly detach and secure the mount when transferring your unit from one vehicle to another.

Magellan 8MB Secure Digital Memory Card

Lowest Price: $18.00

Easily expand and enhance the cartographic capability of your Magellan Meridian series or FX324 MAP family GPS receiver with this Secure Digital (SD) memory card, enabling you to download additional highly detailed maps of streets, topography and more, from Magellan MapSend software products using a PC Data Cable. The industry standard Secure Digital format enables you to create custom maps on your PC and upload them to your Meridian series or FX324 MAP family GPS receiver, using Magellan MapSend navigational software. Fully rewritable, you can upload new sets of mapping detail to custom plan your new adventure any time you want.Unique portability enables you to switch SD memory cards when your journey takes you into new regions or when you want to share the saved data between GPS devices. Simply insert your preprogrammed SD memory card into the slot found under the battery cover and you’re ready to navigate with enhanced cartographic capability.

Magellan Carrying Case, Belt Clip 980630-01 (Black)

Lowest Price: $10.00

Features worldwide cities location points of interest; 1MB Built-in- memory for points of interest downloads; Superior satellite tracking in dense forests - features an advanced Quadrifilar Helix antenna; Large easy to read display - a full 2.3″ x 1.4″ screen size, 39% larger than the leading competitor. Exclusive “Hi-Brite” backlit screen is more visible in low light environments; Fits in you jacket pocket - Lightweight (6.1 oz.) and slim (1.2″ deep).

Magellan 16MB Secure Digital Memory Card

Lowest Price: $20.00

For Meridian GPS Models.