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UPDATE: Read my hands on review of the Magellan RoadMate 5175T-LM.
Hey, look what showed up on the FCC website this morning – a WiFi-enabled Magellan RoadMate 5175 series. We don’t have a lot of specs at this point, but we can tell you that it rotates into portrait or landscape orientations, and that it will come in traffic (5175T) and traffic plus lifetime map (5175T-LM) editions.
The Magellan RoadMate 9055
Magellan has found a corner of the auto market they can dominate – at least until someone else introduces a 7” model. Having had significant success with the RoadMate 1700, a RoadMate 9020 has shown up on their site, adding lifetime traffic to the 1700’s feature set.
I started hearing rumors about this a few months ago, and today we have confirmation; Magellan portable navigation devices (and apparently apps too) are switching from NAVTEQ maps to Tele Atlas. The Tele Atlas agreement covers other MiTAC owned brands as well – Mio and Navman. It remains to be seen how smoothly the switchover will go, as some early concerns have been posted at GpsPasSion by a few Maggie owners who received the new maps in a recent update.
The Magellan RoadMate 3065
UPDATE: Read my hands on review of the Magellan Roadmate 3065
Magellan has quietly rolled out ten new RoadMate navigators, including some models bundled with one-time or lifetime map updates. A few are already available at Amazon. Magellan has been steadily improving their interface with recent models, so I’m looking forward to testing at least one of these and reporting back here with a full review.
UPDATE: A new model, the 1700LM, adds lifetime map updates
The Magellan RoadMate 1700
The Magellan RoadMate 1440
The Magellan RoadMate 1220
The Magellan Maestro 4370
