The OneTouch icon shows up in the upper right corner of the map screen (shown above) giving you quick access to a list of your most frequent destinations. This is a nice feature but it would be better if you could set in 1 MPH increments to allow a bit more fine tuning. When setting it at 10 MPH over, I noticed that it tended to warn at around 9 MPH over, so I ended up setting it for 15 MPH over. Also nice is the ability to set an audible and/or visible warning when you exceed the speed limit by a set number of MPH over the limit (in 5 MPH increments). The 5230T-LM includes speed limit display, which is a relatively new feature for Magellan units. There are however a few things I like a lot, and many apply to Magellan units in general. Fortunately, Magellan has done two things which help – in almost all cases they give a street name for the turn too, and the feature can be disabled under Settings > Navigation.Ĭheck out the rest of the post if you’re curious about where the data comes from. This is nothing but a gimmick and a likely deleterious one at that. Which is probably why we haven’t seen Garmin or TomTom introduce it (and hopefully never will). But it compromises the core navigation function of the device.
And therein lies the problem - without an accuracy level that we’ll probably never see, this feature will give you misleading directions. Is it cool? Yes. Yet there are plenty of former BP stations in the POI database listed as BP. For example, many BP gas station franchises around the country have changed brands since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Of course the big issue here is POI accuracy. Apparently I need a camera with image stabilization, although the main point in this video is the audio. You can see and hear it in action in the admittedly shaky video below. I actually did a separate post on it, so I’ll just quote from that:īasically, in addition to using street names for guidance, it will tell you to turn at “landmarks” like a McDonald’s or a Chevron station. This is the big new feature and it’s the first PND in the US to feature it as far as I can tell. The 5230T-LM includes preloaded maps of the US, Canada and Puerto Rico. Other items of note include junction view, multi-destination routing and speed limit display.
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