RoadMate 300 Offers Out-of-the-Box Vehicle Navigation
LONDON, March 1 --
- Magellan RoadMate now a family of portable vehicle navigation solutions that put drivers in control, whatever the budget
Joining the award-winning Magellan(R) RoadMate(TM) 700 in the best-selling family of portable vehicle navigation systems, the new Magellan RoadMate 300 offers a color touch screen and turn-by-turn text and voice-prompted street navigation for use in any car, at any time, right out of the box. This newest addition to the family offers the same convenience and ease of use that made its predecessor number one in its category. Where the Magellan RoadMate 700 provides a hard drive big enough to hold built-in detail maps for a large region, Magellan RoadMate 300 gives drivers major roads and motorways built in with customized detail maps for a specific groups of countries pre-loaded on an SD card. Simple, yet complete and portable, the new Magellan RoadMate 300 is for everyone with a price of GBP499 incl. V.A.T. and is available this month, just in time for the spring and summer holiday travel.
"The great value proposition of the Magellan RoadMate 300 is that it extends the award-winning, best-selling features offered in the easy-to-use Magellan RoadMate 700 to the more cost-conscious consumer," said Christian Bubenheim, general manager of the Magellan consumer division of Thales' navigation business. "It delivers the same intuitive user interface that sets Magellan products apart from the competition. And, we've integrated advanced, customizable features that customers have requested, for added convenience, flexibility and efficiency."
Detailed street routing right out of the box
The compact, lightweight Magellan RoadMate 300 includes a built-in map of major roads and motorways of all of Europe and a 512 MB SD card configured with detailed maps of your country and some neighboring regions (varies by country of purchase). Drivers can simply turn it on and go to any major city in Europe - without connecting to a PC. It's also easy for drivers to gain door-to-door navigation to any street address thanks to the most up-to-date NavTeq map data provided on the pre-configured SD card.
Drive with confidence using highly accurate GPS
Drivers can trust the Magellan RoadMate 300 to provide reliable and accurate information due to its Magellan TrueFix(TM) Technology, which provides an EGNOS(1) -WAAS(2) enabled, 14-channel GPS receiver for faster, reliable GPS signal reception and extreme positioning precision so drivers know where they are within as little as 3 meters.
Designed for the way people live and drive
With the Magellan RoadMate 300, drivers can create routes with multiple destinations instead of routing to one place at a time. Drivers can create and store up to 20 trips with up to 20 destinations each. In addition, drivers can choose to see particular points of interest, like restaurants or gas stations, displayed along their route. Users can also record their travel paths. For added convenience, the Magellan RoadMate 300 provides a trip computer to help mobile professionals and others gain useful information for tracking mileage, travel time and other trip statistics.
The Magellan RoadMate provides a large, daylight-visible, color touch screen that displays a clear, full-color route on a moving map to show the driver's progress, plus a 3-D graphic that shows one turn at a time. Drivers gain direct access to menu options, an optimized QuickSpell(R) keyboard for faster address input, an intuitive backlit keypad, an integrated GPS antenna and turn-by-turn text and voice-guided directions in seven languages. An integrated speaker delivers loud and clear voice prompts to diminish driver distraction, plus there's a headphone jack to ensure drivers hear directions even in noisy environments or when driving a convertible vehicle.
Simple destination selection
Not only can drivers input information fast, they have a variety of convenient ways to select their destination: by town centre, street address, previous destination, any point on the map screen or a point of interest such as restaurants, hotels, petrol stations and more. Users can also route to a destination from their personal address book, capable of storing up to 600 addresses (200 for each of the three different users, with customizable preferences for each).
The Magellan RoadMate 300 is packaged with a windshield mount, a cigarette lighter adapter, an AC adapter and a USB cable for PC connectivity. Other Magellan RoadMate accessories are available at www.magellangps.com.
(1) EGNOS European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System
(2) WAAS Wide Area Augmentation System
About Thales
Thales is an international electronics and systems group serving the defense, aerospace, services and security markets. The group employs 61,500 people worldwide and generated revenues of EUR10.6 billion in 2003.
Thales' navigation business is one of the world's leaders in positioning, navigation and guidance equipment with global operations. Thales markets its Magellan(R) brand GPS solutions in the consumer electronics, recreation, and automotive markets, and its GPS and GNSS professional products in the survey, GIS/Mapping, and OEM markets. Through its joint venture with Hertz, Thales has developed the Hertz NeverLost(R) vehicle navigation system. Thales key innovations include the first U.S. commercial hand-held GPS receiver for positioning and navigation, and the first handheld GPS with industry standard Secure Digital Memory Card capabilities.
Thales' navigation business is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. with European headquarters in Carquefou, France. For more information, visit http://www.thalesnavigation.com.
(c) 2005 Thales S.A. All rights reserved. The Magellan logo, Magellan, RoadMate, Turn it on and go, Quickspell and TrueFix are trademarks of Thales. All other products and brand names are trademarks of their respective holders.