Navigon 2100 MAX ..is perfect!
Best GPS unit I have ever bought! traveled for 8 years with bunch of junks like Garmin, tomtom. [...]. This unit work better then ever. Great product and great many features...high recommend! every product you will get pro and con. But by far this is the best. Oh! don't listen to the review up above. Navigon still support Maps update for North American and will...
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They should now be called NaviGONE.
I bought my Navigon GPS (7200T) because it had the most features for the lowest price. That still holds true. Very nice unit- attractive and works well, too. Recently, I wanted to update the maps, but there was no Freshmaps Activation card in the box from Amazon. You need the code on that card to get updates. So, I emailed Navigon support for assistance. They sent the...
This review is from: Navigon 2100 Max 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Text-to-Speech (Factory Refurbished) (Electronics)
Best GPS unit I have ever bought! traveled for 8 years with bunch of junks like Garmin, tomtom. [...]. This unit work better then ever. Great product and great many features...high recommend! every product you will get pro and con. But by far this is the best. Oh! don't listen to the review up above. Navigon still support Maps update for North American and will continue to. They just stop selling their product here. but the maps continues.
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I bought my Navigon GPS (7200T) because it had the most features for the lowest price. That still holds true. Very nice unit- attractive and works well, too. Recently, I wanted to update the maps, but there was no Freshmaps Activation card in the box from Amazon. You need the code on that card to get updates. So, I emailed Navigon support for assistance. They sent the following:
'Thank you for your inquiry. Accessories, map material and content are not available in North America through NAVIGON. Unfortunately we don't have information concerning the availability of these products at other major retail shops.'
As has been noted in the posted comments, and which I discovered too late, Navigon is pulling out of the North America market. Beware of this major change, and buy accordingly. They should now be called NaviGONE.
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This review is from: Navigon 2100 Max 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Text-to-Speech (Factory Refurbished) (Electronics)
This has been a great gps device for me! Cost effective, works great! But after about 6 months the car charger broke. Literally it just fell apart. Which I did not think was a big deal at first because I just used my cell phone charger to charge it. But then I realized my traffic info was no longer working, and I discovered that NAVIGON built the traffic antenna into the car charger. GREAT!!! So I contacted NAVIGON to get a replacement and like the other reviews got a short email saying parts were no longer available in North America! Great. So consider carefully and beware of this limitation!!
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This review is from: Navigon 2100 Max 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Text-to-Speech (Factory Refurbished) (Electronics)
Navigon has exited the North American GPS market, and has done so in a spectacularly irresponsible fashion. Even if you bought your device new last month, you will not be able to update your maps, nor get technical assistance. Even those of us who purchased three years of map updates before they closed shop are not getting our promised (and paid for!) map updates. Unless you can get a great deal on one of these, such that you won't mind using a product with no technical support or warranty, and on old maps, do NOT buy one of these.
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This review is from: Navigon 2100 Max 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Text-to-Speech (Factory Refurbished) (Electronics)
This is a very good product, very comparable to Garmin Nuvi series. the features give you a lot of flexibility and control of different navigation scenarios. However, the only problem I had is with the battery. it does not hold charge for longer periods of inactivity. this results in you seating in your car for about 3-5 minutes waiting for system to boot up because there is no power in the battery. this could be a little anoying specially when you are in a little of a hurry. Other than that, the permanent feature of gas stations and restaurants on the road are very convenient.
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This is by far the best GPS on the market. Way better than TomTom, Garmin, Magellan, I had them all and , the best models. They do not touch this unit, nothing but, love for the Navigon
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This review is from: Navigon 2100 Max 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Text-to-Speech (Factory Refurbished) (Electronics)
Being in Souther California, having a GPS without live traffic is not of much use. Hence, opted for this unit at a great price of about $100, refurbished ofcourse.
Cons:
On the freeways way after you pass the exit, you will hear the instruction to exit. Its GPS sensor is very bad.
Cannot get fresh maps and live traffic as they say in their product description. Their support is dead. DEAD.
Takes very very very long time to re-calculate routes if you take a different route than it suggests.
Pros:
Local street level GPS'ing was OK., since you are not driving at higher speeds.
Not that bad for $100.
Lane assist during freeway interchanges.
Final verdict:
I returned it and I dont like it.
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This review is from: Navigon 2100 Max 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Text-to-Speech (Factory Refurbished) (Electronics)
Bought this GPS on the recommendation of a friend who has bought dozens of expensive GPSs for his cars and motorcycles, and uses this one in his car. He has had no qualms about buying a $[...] GPS! The reviews on Amazon helped the decision process.
I bought the refurbished model for under $[...], but at $[...] it would still be a good deal. For geeks out there, it's interesting that the factory refurbished model has a Windows Mobile COA cut off the original box, and thrown in the box with the refurbished unit.
The refurbished unit was packed as new, in a new box with a refurbished sticker on it. I couldn't tell the difference from new.
The small folded cheat sheet is pretty useless, but playing with the GPS for a few minutes got me used to it. It said to go to their web site for a complete manual, but I didn't bother.
The screen is plenty large and easy to see, the suction-cup windshield mount is great (needs assembly with stupid plastic screws than can strip if you're not careful), and the internal rechargeable batteries keep it from shutting off when you turn off the car (if your lighter socket also turns off). Car charger is included (car charger has a mini USB plug, and the box includes a USB cable to plug into your laptop for charging). It did nothing except charge when I plugged it into a PC.
The main thing that I bought it for is the SPEED ALERTS. It shows a speed limit sign when you are on highways (not on local streets), and if you go 10MPH over the limit (by default), it yells "CAUTION!" I used it on a trip, where I found speed limits going from 70 to 50 at random times. I never even saw the sign, but the GPS yelled at me (I'm not married, so this is as close as I'm going to get to having a wife yelling at me when I'm driving - girlfriends aren't stupid).
Since traffic tickets are a profit center (I guess a survival center?) for police departments these days, the cost of this GPS is probably less than one traffic ticket - that the police are trying to trick you into getting. If you stay below the speed limit, you don't need a radar detector (but I do have an Escort 9500ix that includes a GPS, which also yells at me if I come up to an intersection with a Red Light camera). I REALLY like the speed alerts on this GPS!
I have wondered why my $[...] Escort 9500ix radar detector with GPS didn't have the speed limit/alert feature. I guess I had to spend an extra $[...] on this GPS to get that in my car.
The GPS also shows which lane you should stay in on highways. Sometimes it's pretty confusing which lane goes where on a highway. The GPS did a nice gob of drawing a picture of the highway lanes, putting arrows in the lanes you can stay in when exiting, or often even when continuing on the same road.
I've used the Earthmate GPS on my laptop for many years, and the talking voice in it says keep left or right at odd times, and is sometimes pretty confusing. I like the way this Navigon does it much better.
Entry of addresses by the touch screen was tough with my finger, but using the smooth end of a Sharpie barrel (not the felt tip!) made it much easier. It took me a few tries to figure out how they wanted addresses put in, but once I figured out to put in the zip (or city/state), street and THEN the number, it was a breeze. You don't have to type the whole name of the street. Once you start the first few letters, it gives you choices to pick from. It had the two hotels I stayed at in its database of POI (Points of Interest).
The voice is very clear, but even though it runs on Widows Mobile, it doesn't use the familiar Microsoft voices for speech. It missed a lot of pronunciations, but since it shows the street names on the screen anyway, who cares? The voice had a neat feature where it was at a lower level at lower speeds, and at maximum volume at highway speeds (a clickable option) - which was pretty useful (a little distorted through the small speaker at max volume).
My friend said the last time he got updates from the Navigon site, it said this was the last update available. I don't know how that works when they say there are three years of updates.
The free traffic information doesn't work. I guess you have to log into the Navigon site to get it, which seems to be in a foreign country, and wants your email and personal information to even get into the site. I'm not putting personal information into their stinking foreign site.
The data was at least a year old on the thing when I got it refurbished in 09/09. Maybe new ones come with newer data? The free map updates and free traffic seems to be a scam, so I wouldn't count on it when buying this GPS. Even so, it's a good value with year old maps at $[...]. The speed limit database will eventually be useless if you don't update it?
My friend's main complaint with this GPS is that the screen isn't as colorful as some of his other GPSs. He's a programmer that has always done does dazzling UIs (since Windows 3.1), so it doesn't meet his standards. It's fine for me.
This GPS is a great value for under $[...], even if it can't be updated.
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