Magellan RoadMate 3065 4.7-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator with Lifetime Traffic
- GPS for the daily commuter with 4.7-inch touch screen, lifetime traffic alerts, highway lane assist, OneTouch favorites, AAA TourBook and Bluetooth
- Pre-loaded NAVTEQ maps of U.S., Canada & Puerto Rico with six million searchable Point of Interest
- Enjoy safe, hands-free navigation with voice command and calling with on-board Bluetooth
- OneTouch favorites menu affords instant access to your personalized bookmarks of favorite places
- Highway lane assist points you to the right exit with realistic highway signs
The Magellan RoadMate 3065 is premium 4.7″ navigator packed with features perfect for commuters. Know all about traffic delays before you even start your car with Traffic Wakeup. Get detailed mileage reporting on your business road trips. Other key features include Bluetooth hands-free calling, lifetime free traffic, highway lane assist and built-in AAA TourBook. Free Lifetime Traffic provides real-time traffic information. Avoid traffic jams, detours and construction zones. Highway Lane Assist shows realistic highway signs to guide you and ensure that you’ll choose the correct lane Built-in AAA TourBook guide provides ratings and descriptions on AAA-approved places to stay, play, dine, and save. Large 4.7-inch color touch screen is
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List Price: $ 299.99
Price: $ 199.99
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5 comments
steverino says:
August 27, 2010 at 9:54 pm (UTC -6)
Review by steverino for Magellan RoadMate 3065 4.7-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator with Lifetime Traffic
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I bought this product at a big box store, on sale at the same price. I mounted it on one of those beanbag dash mounts; worked fine. The directions are clear; super-accurate. It updates when I deviate from course almost immediately, except once when my local knowledge flummoxed it for about 15 seconds.
The screen would be easy to see (less the sunglare) if it weren’t just too close for my driving glasses and just too far for me to peer over them. That’s my personal problem. Maybe I need bifocals. The spoken directions are clear and well-timed, so a detailed look at the screen isn’t really necessary.
The traffic wake-up is virtually useless; it has to be connected in the car to work, and I am not leaving the unit in the car overnight, and certainly not in the garage at work, having already lost a stereo. Plus my car needs the key in the Accessories position to power the cigarette lighter, and I suspect that would not be a good idea. I haven’t encountered any traffic to test it on the road, yet (which I guess is a good thing).
I had it about a week when it died: in the car, on the floor (the advantage of the beanbag mount) while I was in a store for about an hour. It would not turn back on. The Magellan support was excellent: I called, got an RMA number, shipped it, and expect a new unit (not a refurb) back in a few days (7-10 after shipping). I’ll be a little more careful about heat, though you would expect that a device designed to sit exposed to the sky…
Assuming the replacement keeps its cool, I would recommend this, or one of the similar models.
bluzboy says:
August 27, 2010 at 10:26 pm (UTC -6)
Review by bluzboy for Magellan RoadMate 3065 4.7-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator with Lifetime Traffic
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To the reviewer who said there is a problem with the charger with the mount:
The usb charger end has to be “Slid” into the mount first, then you can put the GPS unit on the cradle. You cannot just plug it in the back of the gps unit with the mount on. It wont fit.
I have had tomtom 340s and Garmin 1250t units. This is very comparible to the tomtom and garmin gps units.
The screen is much nicer than the tomtom and the mapping is better than the garmin. (at least the overall software look and feel)
Overall the 3065 is a very good unit
Mary C says:
August 27, 2010 at 10:54 pm (UTC -6)
Review by Mary C for Magellan RoadMate 3065 4.7-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator with Lifetime Traffic
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This is my first car GPS (I’ve used a nautical GPS for years). It works well, nice touch screen, good graphics, and accurate. The sound for the bluetooth is okay.
rchelap says:
August 27, 2010 at 11:41 pm (UTC -6)
Review by rchelap for Magellan RoadMate 3065 4.7-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator with Lifetime Traffic
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I bought this product a couple of days ago and have been testing it. Noticed that the way the windshield mount is manufactured, the car charger’s GPS end does not fit in neatly into the mount and as a result two things happen:
1) The charger cord gets unplugged very easily from the GPS/ windshield mount, AND
2) Importantly, it impacts the Traffic Alerts–I did not receive the Traffic Alert signal for the longest time and then when I plugged in the car charger/power chord without the windshield mount I was able to get the Alerts. It was then that I noticed that the car charger does not fit /plug in neatly into the windshield mount because of the way it has been manufactured!!
Truly a QA issue in my opinion.
Y. Chow says:
August 28, 2010 at 12:32 am (UTC -6)
Review by Y. Chow for Magellan RoadMate 3065 4.7-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator with Lifetime Traffic
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After tried two new Garmin GPS, I switched to Magellan. The complaints I had for the two Garmin models are frequent drop of sattelite signals and unreliable bluetooth connection to cell phone. Magellan 3065 seems better in these two areas so far. In addition, I like the GPS speaking names of streets when announcing turns or giving directions, although the speech sometimes is not so clear. And another thing I like is the AAA tour book in it. It gives the details of campgrounds in our state.