- Ultra-slim 7-inch color touchscreen is perfect for large vehicles and easy viewing on the road
- Includes maps of the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico with 6 million points of interest
- Features multi-destination routing, highway lane assist, spoken street names, AAA TourBook, and more
- Search for gas stations, restaurants, hotels, and more near upcoming highway exits–QuickSpell with SmartCity search makes destination entry easy
- One-year limited warranty
Amazon.com Product Description
Perfect for SUVs, trucks and RVs, the Magellan RoadMate 1700 boasts a generous, ultra-thin 7-inch touch screen ideal for large vehicles and easy viewing on the road. Premium features include: OneTouch favorites menu, AAA TourBook and Member Roadside Assistance, QuickSpell with SmartCity search, highway exit POI, spoken street name guidance, plus so many more! A powerful navigation experience. With a bright, WVGA 7-inch screen and the features you nee… More >>
Magellan RoadMate 1700 7-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator
Tags: 1700, 7Inch, Magellan, Navigator, Portable, RoadMate, Widescreen
On the pro side large well lit screen that can be seen even in bright sun light, even very bright when set on the lowest setting on night screen, auto or manual settings. The lane assist feature works well. The unit acquires satellites very quickly even at first start up, 20 seconds. At posted speeds the voice feature will notify of the next turn in time but the display lags. Watching the display alone and you will be 100 feet past you turn! The 1700 is very chatty and I find myself telling it to “shut up you moron”. I’ve used it now for more than 5000 miles and once the unit has decided on it’s initial routing it doesn’t like to change it’s mind, sometimes trying to send you thru endless u-turns till it gets it’s way, even though it’s very clear that the route you are on from experience is clearly the most direct, also insisting to take you sometimes 200 mile out of your way!!! I’ve used many gps units and thought the tomtom was dumb but it beats this. By far the best gps still is the iway 500c (no longer made by Lowrance). If you want a gps that is on the same level as the 1700 I recommend getting a shoe box take a blue marker and make a dot in the upper left hand corner, then take a red marker make a dot in the lower right corner, now draw a line to both dots. Now it’s a heads up competition!!!! SAVE YOUR MONEY AND AVOID THIS ONE
Rating: 2 / 5
NICE big screen; $ 100 less than Garmin 7in unit for which I probably have the maps for. Reminds me of the handheld units from Magellan I had before; a pain to set up and learn; but adqequate once you learn it.
Lack of A/C adapter is unbelievable; how do you learn the unit; sit in you car every time your want to try something new; or figure how memory cards work? Again; could have bought AC adapter with unit if it was more clear that none was provided. What voltage +/- is required? can one make / use other battery source for out of car use? Mount issue was most confusing; I kept getting bounced from Amazon page to page; but what the hell is a friction mount. I would like a remove antennae connection to get it out of line of sight across dashboard. I still need a better mount(CA is not legal to mount on front glass, and no antennae to have on rear windows.
Rating: 1 / 5
So far so good. I am loving this new GPS. EVERYONE should have one. The true test will be traveling down to Long Island then I’ll really let you know!
Rating: 4 / 5
Great display, easy to follow. Took some practice to get familiar with the menu.
Rating: 5 / 5
I just bought this but dont know how to hook up with dvd player.I tried the 3.5mm in put to this with the rca jack out put from dvd player, also tried red for video, .etc.. but still didnt work, any1 knows about this? what kind of cable do i need to buy? please let me know, thanx very much.
Rating: 4 / 5