You can imagine your in-car tracking computer always speaking to you in a faux British accent, like a tiny robot Mr. Belvedere, would be pretty annoying. That’s what the Magellan Roadmate 300 is like for Stu over at Pocket-Lint, except the other way around—the Roadmate defaults to an American accent out of the box and Mr. Miles is not an American. If that were the only flaw, it could be overlooked (like many Europeans do when earstruck by my worst-of-both-worlds Ozarks via Brooklyn patois), but Stu rattles off a litany of problems with the unit that can’t be glossed over by its strengths, nice as they may be.
Why do GPS manufacturers still make crappy units? It is a mystery.
Magellan Roadmate 300 [Pocket-Lint]
