Navigon 2120 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator

by Navigon

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 1 x 4 x 3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000XML9UA
• Item model number: 10000172
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #92,346 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Manufacturer's Description -- May 20, 2008

Manufacturer's Description -- May 20, 2008 The 2120 is the twin of Navigon's sleek little entry-level 2100, exceptthat includes maps for Canada in addition to the United States, and it packs solid navigation and unique features into its diminutive glossy black frame. Spoken driving directions in real street names via text-to-speech capability let you keep your eyes on the road. Reality View provides realistic views of complex exits and interchanges (including actual road sign text) so you get extra guidance when and where you need it most. Add FreshMaps as an accessory to get up to 12 regular, trusted map updates for three years. Other accessories include Lifetime TrafficSM,2 and ZAGAT Ratings and Reviews.

Navigon has long been a major provider of navigation software to automotive manufacturers for in-dash gps navigation devices, but only last year did they introduce portable navigation devices under their own name (learn more about Navigon). What they offer up, however, demonstrates immediately that this is a company that knows navigation inside and out. Navigon focuses features that directly empower navigation and on sleek form factors.

Key Features

• Reality View: 3D images of highway interchanges with actual road sign text so you’ll never miss your exit again. (Learn more)
• Spoken Directions with Text-to-Speech: keep your eyes on the road with spoken turn-by-turn directions and real street names. 
• Points Of Interest: Reach gas stations, hotels, restaurants, transportation hubs, and more with millions of points of interest that will help you find your way.
  

Easy Add-Ons

Navigon offers some unique services that are easy to add to your Navigator with a simple activation code.

• FreshMaps gives you up to 12 regular, trusted map updates for three years.
• Lifetime Traffic gives you traffic flow and incident information and alternate route suggestion for the life of your unit (included free on the 5100 and 7100 models).
  
• ZAGAT Ratings and Reviews Service gives you over 21,000 ZAGAT ratings and reviews covering more than 70 cities in the U.S. and Canada (included free on the 5100 and 7100 models).

Which Navigon is Right for You?

• Click here to see a chart comparing features on the entire family of Navigon portable GPS navigators

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Learn More

Superior Software and Hardware

The features and functions of the Navigon's portable GPS navigators are controlled via intuitive, easy-to-use animated menus that use predictive text input to quickly and easily select your city, state and address. Maps and menus appear on elegant, high-contrast, full-color touch-screen displays. Navigon portable GPS navigators run on a powerful Samsung 400 MHz processor, a fully integrated SiRF Star III GPS chip, 64 MBs of both RAM and ROM built in, and a rechargeable 1,200 mAh lithium ion battery that is rated for 4.5 hours of continuous use.

Points of Interest

The NAVIGON 2120 points you to places you didn't even know existed. Shown with icons to your favorite brand-name destinations, the preloaded points of interest onboard help you easily find a place to fill the tank or feed the kids. View all of the Points of Interest Categories for the 2120.

Reality View

Reality View provides 3D images and actual road sign text when approaching complex interchanges — so you’ll never miss your exit again.

Zagat Ratings (Requires Purchase of Activation Code)

Now you can enjoy the world's most comprehensive restaurant and entertainment guide — right on your NAVIGON GPS device. With ZAGAT's trusted Ratings and Reviews, you will know exactly where to stay and play during your travels and, with NAVIGON's guidance you will know exactly how to get there. The guide includes over 21,000 entries covering a variety of categories, including restaurants, hotels, golf courses, nightclubs and attractions in over 70 cities in the U.S. and Canada. ZAGAT SURVEY Ratings and Reviews is a standard feature on both the 7100 and 5100 models. An additional accessory purchase is required to activate the service on the 2100 and 21200models.

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What's in the Box

• NAVIGON 2120 GPS Navigator
• SD card preloaded with software and maps of the continental US and Canada
  
• Rechargeable 1150 mAH lithium ion battery (rated for up to 4.5 hours)
• Car Charger
• Car Mount
• Quickstart Guide
• Limited Warranty

Note: All Navigon GPS Navigators run on the Microsoft Windows CD Net 5.0 operating system. A PC is required to use additional map data, and in such cases users require Windows 2000, ME, XP or higher, as well as a CD ROM drive and a USB port. An SD/MMC card reader is recommended as the 7100 not only uses SD cards, but also comes with a 2 GB SD card in the package.

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The Navigon Family of Portable Navigators

	Screen Size (diagonally)	Maps	Reality View	Real Street Names	Lane Assistant	Bluetooth	POIs	Lifetime Traffic Data Service	Zagat Ratings	FreshMaps 3-Year Map Update Service
2100	3.5 inches	continental U.S.					1.3 million	Requires Activation	Requires Activation	Requires Activation
2120	3.5 inches	U.S and Canada					1.3 million	Requires Activation	Requires Activation	Requires Activation
2100 Max	4.3 inches	continental U.S.					1.3 million	Requires Activation	Requires Activation	Requires Activation
5100	3.5 inches	U.S and Canada					millions	Included	Included	Requires Activation
7100	4.3 inches	U.S and Canada					millions	Included	Included	Requires Activation

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About Navigon

NAVIGON has been a leader of GPS navigation since 1991, and has a long history of industry innovations. NAVIGON created the world's first dynamic personal GPS product in 1996, launched the industry's first navigation software for the Pocket PC in 2000, and unveiled the first Traffic Message Channel-based (TMC) avoidance feature on mobile navigation product in 2002.

NAVIGON has helped revolutionize how consumers get from place to place with software products for practically any navigation-ready hardware. Personal navigation devices (PND), smartphones, and in-dash navigation systems directed by NAVIGON's award-winning MobileNavigator (MN) software delivers reliable information on millions of destinations in an intuitive, easy to use format. NAVIGON is a valued partner to the automotive industry, and in 2006 strengthened its category competency by acquiring NAVTEQ's navigation software business.

NAVIGON is a privately-held software company based in Hamburg, Germany, with NAVIGON USA headquarters in Chicago, IL.

NAVIGON 2120 POI Categories

• Restaurant
• Border crossing
• Gas Station
• Rent-a-car Facility
• School
  • University or College
  • Library
  • Book Store
  • Theatre
  • Casino
  • Cinema
• Business Facility
• Hotel or Motel
  • Convention Center
• Shopping center
  • Grocery Store
  • Winery
  • Ski Resort
  • Golf Course
  • Sports Center
• Park & Recreation Area
• City Hall
• Police Station
• Court House
• Community Centre
• Hospital
  • Pharmacy
• Bank
  • ATM/Cash Dispenser
• Garage parking
  • Open parking
  • Park And Ride
• Railway station
  
  • Bus station
  • Commuter Rail Station
• Airport
• Rest Area
• Ferry Terminal
• Marina
• Motoring Organisation Office
• Car Repair Facility
• BMW Motorcycle
• Race Track
  
  • Camping Ground
• RV parks
• Business Service
• Department Store
• Government Offices
• Fire Department
• Post Office
• Police Service

Product Description

The NAVIGON� 2120 provides accurate turn-by-turn guidance across North America with exclusive features like Reality View� which provides realistic 3D map views of complex interchanges. Speaks street names.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Navigon 2120...a GPS with maps of all USA and Canada, March 18, 2008

By 

R. Nicholson - See all my reviews
(TOP 1000 REVIEWER)   

This review is from: Navigon 2120 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator (Electronics)

A well made, competitively price GPS unit.

This unit is the same as the 2100 except that the 2120 has all the USA states (including Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico) and Canada. It comes with car charger and your choice of either windshield suction cup or dash-top adhesive disc for displaying your unit.

What is MISSING in this particular product (and included as standard features on the 5100 and 7100 series) are...

1.)A home charging unit
2.)No instruction booklet or DVD. You have to go online to download a PDF file and go from there.
3.)Neither accessory card is included; the Traffic Activation Service* and Zagat POI (points of interest) must be bought separately.

the good...

1.)the unit is well sized; my initial concern was that it was small, but once on the windshield it was big enough to easily read without blocking your vision.

2.)easy to program routes with the ability to put in various way points in between your start and finish. (however, see con: 1.) below)

3.)if you 'save' your destinations, way points, etc., you have the ability to 'rename' them; this may not sound like a big deal but you might find it more helpful to have the I-81 north of Harrisburg PA named as such (for ease of recall at a later date) than named the 'Veterans Highway' with no indication where it is.

4.)I liked the snap in/out device that actually holds the GPS; this made the unit easy to put up and take down if you didn't want to leave the unit in your car while unattended.

5.)3D viewing is available for all usages as are voice directions; larger, more detailed maps are used in larger intersections, cloverleafs etc.

6.)the level of luminescence is variable for daytime/nighttime driving; a very nice feature as the daytime brightness is extremely bright at night.

7.)There is a toll free phone number for customer support; I had a question about my unit and called 'support', after a couple redirects from the automated answering machine I was connected to a 'real' person...impressive.

8.)once you register your unit online, any updates that are available for downloaded may be added to your unit through a computer connection.

the cons:

1.a)because there was no manual with this unit, learning to program this unit (although in hindsight, this was not particularly difficult) was more complicated that it should have been.

1.b)in route planning, I found the unit invariably would find a somewhat different way to get from point A to point B than I'd expected. It would get me to my destination, but just by a different (and sometimes more circuitous) route.

1.c)if you are following a preprogrammed route on this unit and you miss hitting a waypoint on your route, the unit will continually try to turn you around to 'hit' the waypoint (or until you delete this waypoint). A somewhat annoying feature. I eventually found it much more effective to put in short routes, rather than longer routes with multiple waypoints.

2.)the accessory cards (Traffic* and Zagat's POI) are only useful in selected major centers.

3.)the connector cord to the unit from the cigarette lighter charger went straight into the bottom of the unit. This means you need to have 2 or 3 inches of space between your unit and the dash top or else you could possibly kink the charger cord. Motorola makes a right angle adapter (SKN6182)that solves this problem.

4.)the unit's battery (when used without charger cord) only lasted about 4 hours.

5.)the computerized voice had an unpleasant tinny pitch to it and quickly became VERY annoying; fortunately, it can be turned off.

Conclusions:
1.)A reasonably priced, basic GPS that works well.
2.)It is very useful in finding and directing you to particular spots once you are in the general area, e.g. a specific address, a certain restaurant, an ATM or gas station etc.
3.)I found it less useful on planning long trips as it tended to suggest routes and turnoffs that were less than optimal for my chosen trip.

Overall...4 1/2 Stars

*Also, please note that if you plan to use the Traffic Activation Service you must use the in-car charger cord as it acts an the antenna to receive traffic information for both the 2100 and 2120 units.

Addendum: April 28/08
A new software version 1.2 has been released and is available for download from the Navigon website for registered owners of the 2100, 5100 and 7100 series. Hopefully this new software will improve the route selection process used by the GPS and make its suggestions more useful.

1.0 out of 5 stars Navigon - no longer supported, January 21, 2010

By 

M. Hobson (Hagerstown, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Navigon 2120 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator (Electronics)

I paid a ton $$$$ of money for the 8100T. I find it has great displays and navigation once you get the location input, but getting a point of interest and imputing the destination location is tedious, And now they have withdrawn their North American support. Scumbags!

Do not waste your money and buy one of these gps!!There is no support in the USA!

Buy a Garmin!

5.0 out of 5 stars GPS, August 26, 2008

By 

Glenn P. Roberts - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Navigon 2120 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator (Electronics)

Works great! I had a tomtom before but broke it(my Fault). I like this gps a little better. Looks better and has 3d mode. Worth the money.