The Magellan RoadMate 1340 device boasts the acclaimed OneTouch menu, a 3.5-inch color touch screen, and an ultra-thin design. Preloaded maps and points of interest for the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico make the RoadMate 1340 ideal for both business trips and vacations. Easy-to-use, premium features give you confidence on the road and deliver a powerful navigation experience.  Turn it on and go! Click to enlarge. |  OneTouch favorites menu affords instant access to your personalized bookmarks of favorite places and searches anywhere you travel. Click to enlarge. |  AAA TourBook provides ratings and descriptions on AAA approved places to stay, play, dine, and save. Click to enlarge. |  Highway lane assist signs show highway signs to point you in the right direction when approaching interchanges and exits. Click to enlarge. |  Multi-destination routing with route optimization lets you plan your trip with multiple stops in the order you want or optimize a trip for the most efficient route, helping you save time and money. Click to enlarge. |  QuickSpell with SmartCity search narrows your address and city searches, making destination entry easy. Click to enlarge. | The Magellan RoadMate 1340 includes many premier features, starting with Magellan's exclusive OneTouch favorites menu, QuickSpell with SmartCity search, and highway exit point of interest (POI) search, to name a few. Magellan's attention to detail delivers a superior user experience. Intuitive and robust navigation
The RoadMate 1340 lets you bookmark your favorite destinations and searches with the OneTouch favorites menu so you can access them anywhere you travel. With a single touch, find your favorite cafe or restaurant when you're traveling within any city. QuickSpell with Smart City search help you quickly enter addresses and narrow your address and city searches, making destination entry easy. Multi-destination routing with route optimization lets you plan your trip with multiple stops in the order you want or optimize a trip for the most efficient route, helping you save time and money. Safety first on the road
You can keep your eyes on the road as you drive because spoken street name guidance announces the street name along with audible turning cues. Highway lane assist offers visual aids to point you in the right direction and ensure that you'll choose the correct lane well before your next turn. Should your vehicle unfortunately break down as you travel, the AAA locate screen provides your location so help will know where to find you. Get support fast with the AAA Member Roadside Assistance1 phone number and your location displayed on the RoadMate 1340 screen. Ready to roll
You're ready to travel with preloaded maps and points of interest for the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico that make the Magellan RoadMate 1340 ideal for both business trips and vacations. (Mexico map activation available for purchase on www.magellangps.com). With millions of points of interest at your command you can easily locate gas stations, restaurants, ATMs, coffee shops, and much more. If you need more information or you want to save money, select the AAA search menu after your search entry. AAA TourBook provides ratings and descriptions on AAA approved places to stay, play, dine, and save. When you're traveling down the Interstate and need to find gas, food, or lodging in a hurry, touch the highway exit POI icon to see which upcoming highway exits have the services you need. Do you often find yourself tied up in traffic? The RoadMate 1340 is Traffic Link compatible, offering live onscreen traffic-incident reports. (The Traffic Link accessory is sold separately). Turn it on and go!
The Magellan RoadMate 1340 is loaded with premier features you'll need to get you where you want to go. Magellan RoadMate 1340 Features - OneTouch favorites menu affords instant access to your personalized bookmarks of favorite places and searches anywhere you travel. With a single touch, find your favorite cafe or restaurant when you're traveling within any city.
- 3.5-inch color touch screen provides powerful navigation that's easy to view and use.
- AAA TourBook provides ratings and descriptions on AAA approved places to stay, play, dine, and save.
- AAA Member Roadside Assistance gets you help fast with a toll-free member service number to assist you in finding an AAA approved tow truck or repair shop. The menu also shows your exact GPS location so you can provide precise information to your location.
- Highway lane assist signs show highway signs to point you in the right direction when approaching interchanges and exits, and ensure that you'll choose the correct lane well before your next turn.
- Spoken street names and directions so you can hear and see where you need to turn next.
- QuickSpell with SmartCity search narrows your address and city searches, making destination entry easy.
- Multi-destination routing with route optimization lets you plan your trip with multiple stops in the order you want or optimize a trip for the most efficient route, saving you time and money.
- Preloaded maps give you information and directions as you travel the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. (Mexico map activation available for purchase on www.magellangps.com).
- Millions of points of interest (POIs) help you easily find gas stations, restaurants, ATMs, coffee shops, and much more.
- Highway exit POIs search shows you gas stations, restaurants, hotels, and more near upcoming highway exits.
- Branded POIs display your favorite coffee shops, restaurants, and more by their respective logos.
- Traffic Link provides live, onscreen traffic notification updates. (This accessory is sold separately).
- Customizable route method lets you select the shortest distance, fastest time, most use of freeways, or least use of freeways to customize your route.
- Address book enables you to create and store contact information.
- Auto night view adjusts your screen's color and contrast for easy night viewing.
- Automatic re-route lets you quickly get back on track in case you missed a turn.
- Plan route on map by simply touching a destination on the map screen and then directly routing to it.
- Rechargeable battery gives you the freedom to drive wireless or plan your trip when your vehicle's engine is turned off.
What's in the Box
RoadMate 1340 GPS receiver, Pre-loaded maps of the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico, Windshield mount, Adhesive disc for dash mounting, Vehicle power adapter, User handbook, USB cable, User manual on CD-ROM 
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 Answering a few questions from other reviews |
| Review Date: June 1, 2009 |
| Reviewer: William J. Brinkman II, Oxford, OH USA |
Q: How long does it take to start up?
A: 32 seconds, timed with a stopwatch.
Q: How long does it take to find the satellite?
A: The first time I started it up, it took a while, but every time since then it was nearly instantaneous. In my office (3rd floor of a large 3-story college building) it takes about 8-10 seconds to find the satellite signal.
I also want to highlight the AAA tourbook and the user interface. I find the user interface more elegant and more intuitive than those of the more popular brands. The AAA tourbook is fantastic if you are a tourist, because it contains reviews and descriptions (not just location info).
The other reviewer is right about the street name TTS function. To my ear it does not sound fuzzy, but rather it sounds QUIETER than the rest of the speech. So I have to turn the volume up to the point where the speech is quite loud for the street names to be comprehensible. I view this as a minor annoyance, not a deal-breaker. |
Some nifty improvements, full of thoughtful/useful features
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| Review Date: June 28, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Larry Diamond, Austin, TX USA |
This is my third car GPS unit. I had one Garmin and one Magellan previously. My other two were 4.3 inch screens, which I thought was the minimum screen size to be useful. I was wrong. The 1340 has a high quality screen and information is displayed perfectly, each type of information seems to take the exactly correct amount of screen space so the display never looks overly cluttered. Magellan has done an excellent job, very thoughtful, in making this unit an excellent travel companion. It has some neat improvements over the older models I had, both my previous Magellan and previous Garmin.
The best features: The 1340 has some very helpful features when driving on freeways. When your exit is coming up it clearly shows the lane you should be in and greys out the other lanes. If you are coming to a freeway interchange, it clearly marks the lane(s) you should be in. It also has an exit point of interest (POI) feature on freeways. Both on and off freeways the 1340 always gives ample warning of upcoming turns including a 2-mile warning and then a closer one, much better than my Garmin in this regard. You also have the next turn direction and road name listed clearly along the top of the screen.
The POI features in general are done really well on Magellans. First it has an extensive database. Second it has an extremely useful feature that as far as I know is unique to Magellans. It has an AAA tour book feature that use to only be found on the Maestro line. It is now on the new Roadmates as well. The AAA tour book not only lists restaurants nearby but gives you a brief yet helpful description of each one on the list. Now the list is not as comprehensive as the overall database POI, but in previous trips using my Maestro my wife and I found some excellent memorable restaurants we would not have tried otherwise without reading the description. Very helpful in choosing restaurants in an unfamiliar area.
The best improvements: My previous Magellan did not allow you to add a destination to your current destination. You had to cancel route and then do a new route to. The 1340 now allows you to add as many destinations as you want without cancelling the current one. And you can place them anywhere, before your current destination, after your current destination or between any two if you have more than 2 destinations.
There is also a very helpful one-touch screen, which is new. Really like this feature. It is a small button in the upper-right corner. You can click it from any screen. It then takes you directly to a screen with customizable short-cut buttons. They come pre-set to things like Home (push it and it calculates your route home), previous destinations, emergency, bank/ATM etc. I used the user-assignable button (only one comes unassigned) to take me to the AAA guide book restaurant listings. But you can also re-assign any of the other buttons. Say you do not use the bank/ATM button a lot you can re-assign it to say an often used search, maybe work. Then when you want to calculate the route to work instead of going to previous destinations or entering an address, just hit the one-touch button then the button you assigned to work.
Also the quickspell feature has been improved. Magellan always had a very smart quickspell in that you start entering a street name and it starts narrowing down your choices very accurately. Well now it really allows you to find a city even more efficently. Based on your current location as soon as you type the first letter of a city it brings up the closest likely candidate. In the Austin area when I type R it brings up Round Rock. When I type C it brings up Cedar Park. In both cases it was correct. You of course have the option to keep typing but I did find it neat and useful.
Lastly they have improved, the mounting feature. My older GPS units needed to be clicked in on the top and bottom. This one has a small cut out on the middle-back bottom that you slide into the mounting unit. Holds it steady and very easy to connect.
Room for improvement: I guess this is par for the course from a lot of makers but I was annoyed that no carrying case was provided. The unit is very easy to carry, it will easily fit in a pants pocket or purse. But who wants to scuff up the screen? You need a case, and they could have easily provided a functional no-frills case in the box, they did not. You need to purchase one. The 1340's one operating flaw was it does take some time to start up from a power-off position. Definitely longer than my older model Magellan and Garmin took. We are talking about maybe 10-15 seconds longer so no big deal, not enough to downgrade its rating. There is no traffic option available in the box, You need to buy a separate receiver/power cord that has gotten mixed reviews on Amazon. I do not have it so can not speak to its usefulness or not. Frankly I do not buy car GPS units for this feature but if you do want it be aware you need to buy something else. On the plus side the traffic receiver listed on Amazon says it comes with `life-time' traffic no subscription needed.
Bottom line, I highly recommend this unit. The combination of great features for highway driving, the AAA tour book, quickspell features, quick and accurate route calculation/re-calculation, large POI database, customizable map (you can choose what features to show on your map, food, gas, etc. or nothing), and one-touch screen clearly shows Magellan put a lot of thought into how to make a very useful navigation unit/ travel helper.
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A good basic unit
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| Review Date: July 7, 2009 |
| Reviewer: wogan, Indiana&Maryland- U.S.A. |
The Magellan Roadmate 1340 is a good deal for the price that Amazon at this point is selling it. It is a basic unit that will serve well for directions and has some features which are an improvement over the more expensive Garmin nuvi 350 that I have used.
I compared both units on two recent trips, using both at the same time. The Magellan has superior turn directions; using "approaching slight left turn" instead of the Garmin's left turn which leads you to expect a 90 degree turn and can be confusing. Of course the notification of left lane exits is a boon on the Magellan, and a safety factor when driving on unfamiliar high speed highways. The `ding-dong' sound as the turn should be made is good. The unit also posts the latitude and longitude which can be useful.
The Magellan's map list shows an arrow for the next direction turn, which is good and on the map list you can press an avoid maneuver if there is a highway you do not want to travel on. However, it will go back to the original if you don't like the 2nd choice.
Starting both units at the same time - the Magellan did not acquire my position until 3 miles further down the road than the Garmin. The Magellan's car charger light is impossible to see, but really, I had no trouble seeing the screen in even bright sunlight. You will have to separately purchase a charger for inside your house, the Garmin includes one. The Magellan does not receive the satellite signal as well as my Garmin. If I had it on my lap or on the console it would blink out at times, the Garmin has never done that. I also would appreciate a battery charge level indicator for the Magellan.
The `bean bag' unit that can be purchased separately for the Magellan is extremely heavy and big as compared to the one made for the Garmin (in case you do not want or cannot use the adhesive stick on for the windshields).
The Garmin roadmap designs are better, clearer and contain better detail; plus my Garmin unit will stay at my preferred magnification level instead of having to adjust the Magellan each time. I much prefer my British male voice, which is among the several choices on the Garmin, to the computer female voice of the Magellan; and personally I like the Garmin's voice saying "recalculating" when I miss a turn or go a different way so that I know that I've made a mistake or the route is being changed.
The Magellan Roadmate 1340 at the time of this review is about $150 cheaper than the Garmin. the Garmin nuvi 350 is $299.99. I have been using it for a year and a half, however when I purchased it, it was $100.00 cheaper. I would pay the extra $50 to buy the Garmin, but do not think it is worth an extra hundred. There are advantages to each of the units, I prefer the Garmin, but like the Magellan as a good basic unit.
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Magellan Roadmate 1340
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| Review Date: July 16, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Loves Books, Maryland USA |
Magellan Roadmate 1340
The Magellan 1340 is one of the low to midrange GPS units available. For a low cost unit, it has a lot of features:
1. Loaded with maps of North America - normal for most GPS units.
2. 3.5 inch screen - again pretty normal in this price range.
3. Multi-destination routing - this lets you plan a travel agenda and go from one location to another without having to re-enter a new destination. This lets you set up all of the trip before starting so you don't waste time reprogramming it while you're traveling.
4. Spoken street names - speaks the street name that you need to turn at. I didn't think this was needed (my old GPS didn't do it), but it is very nice. You don't need to look at the screen to see the name of the street. This is really handy when you have streets real close together . GPS units without this feature tell you to turn in so many feet. Sometimes it's hard to tell which street they mean (so you need to look at the GPS).
5. Highway lane assist - if turned on, it displays a green sign (looks like an overhead highway sign) that shows you where the different lanes go when you're near a split or exit. Nice feature!
6. One touch icon - this lets you save searches (destinations) so you can recall them with a single touch. This is useful for locations you go to many times but are still far enough away that you need to use a GPS.
The GPS comes with a CD, mount, and power cable. The CD is AAA software for trip planning. The mount is your standard suction mount. The power cable plugs in and connects to your lighter or power plug in your car. It is used to both power the GPS and charge its built-in battery.
One option that is available is a traffic monitor. This is a new power cord that contains an antenna that picks up traffic reports. The GPS uses these reports to pick the best route. If you travel through congested cities this is a must have. You have to buy the cable but the service is free (some GPS use services that have a monthly fee).
This GPS works extremely well. The screen is easy to read (even in bright sunlight when mounted on the dash). It locks on the satellites faster than my old unit. The routes it picks seem to be very good. All in all, a good GPS with a lot of features at a relatively low price.
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Great little unit
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| Review Date: July 20, 2009 |
| Reviewer: D. Woodruff, Houston, Texas United States |
| I love this GPS. This does just about everything that I expect a GPS to do, although it doesn't have features such as bluetooth for any power users out there. Features I especially love that were new to me? The pop-ups that show you what the road signs look like when you are approaching your freeway exits and the text-to-speech is pretty spot-on. Satellite acquisition is fast, and it even worked in downtown Houston when I was surrounded by skyscrapers. Highly recommended. |
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