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Dr Gadget - Navigon 5100 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Text-to-Speech and Lifetime Traffic
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List Price: $499.00
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Manufacturer: Navigon
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Navigon
Color: Chrome
Display Size: 3.5
EAN: 0898110001044
Feature: Superbly accurate, door-to-door directions with pre-installed maps of U.S. and Canada.
Includes Mp3 Player: 1
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Navigon
Manufacturer: Navigon
Model: 10000130
Native Resolution: 320 x 240
Publisher: Navigon
Special Features: nv:Type^Receiver|Display^Color|Touch Screen^Yes|Expansion Slots^SD Card|Battery Type^1200mAh Lithium Ion|Battery Life^4.5 hours|Antenna^SIRF-GPS antenna
Studio: Navigon
Variation Description: Chrome
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Features
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Superbly accurate, door-to-door directions with pre-installed maps of U.S. and Canada.
Speaks street names via Text-to-Speech
Subscription free liftetime traffic out of the box
Lane Assistant & Reality View features that simplify your drive
Zagat ratings and reviews
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Navigon 5100 GPS review
Comment: Great buy for the money. I bought one for my parents and one for my daughter and son-in-law. I plugged it in before I gave them as gifts and was pleased with the possible exception that it doesn't sound like the voice has a very high volume. Hopefully, that won't be an issue when it is used.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not as good as I hoped
Comment: It is not as helpful as i hoped it would be.
For starters, the POI's are extremely limited. It did not even find a certain starbucks!
Additionally, I expected it to be able to find places,(based on its name and not an address, i.e. "Carvel") in a given area, but it is not able to do so.
The input buttons are small and slow.
As for the traffice updates, the one time it picked up a supposed traffic alert on a highway it ended up being incorrect information.
Overall, I'm not so pleased with it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good product for it's price
Comment: This is a great product from Navigon with lot of pros and few cons ;-)
Pros -
1) Realtime view - This is an awesome feature that is only provided by Navigon which shows number of lanes (exactly same as fwy boards), I just love it.
2) Speed limit - Gives a Caution indication to driver if speed is exceeded by 5/10/15/20 miles. (we can set the warning)
3) Turn by turn list - Gives turn by turn with street name with 1/2 mile remaining towards the turn.
4) 2D/3D view - Excellent 2/3D views. We can set Day/Night display mode.
5) Traffic Indication - Excellent feature, saves a lot of time if there is a traffic on FWY and asks if you want to opt for alternative route.
6) POI's - Number of POI's to search as well as they are displayed on screen while driving. (This saves time to search).
7) Excellent looks, excellent windshield
Cons-
1) Takes time to start and to load maps. For me it has always shown me insufficient signal when I switch it on. But after 5-7 mins, it's good to go. So better switch it on sometime earlier.
2) Takes time while recalculating, to display turn by turn list.
3) Tapping on the Screen is not so easy, u have to press hard...i'm not sure but may be I'm still facing that problem
Overall, this is a great product for it's price. I'm enjoying it. :-)
Customer Rating:
Summary: Garmin is better~!
Comment: Seriously, if you have any brains you'll spend a few extra dollars and buy a Garmin. You can get a 265t with free traffic for about an extra $50, and that is money well spent!! The Navigon is plagued with a terrible speaker, made worse by the garbled voice that is installed in the unit. Plus I had the newest maps from Navigon, and it still didn't have my road on there, despite the road being 2 years old, Garmin had it right out of the box! Garmin has a great speaker, with clear voices, and you can customize just about everything very easily, whereas with the Navigon you have to search on various sites to try and find what you need, and then hope it doesn't crash the unit when you install it. The "reality view" is a joke, it's just a generic picture of a skyline with the proper number of road lanes, and it's a static picture so you can't even see that you are moving, brilliant move Navigon! I had this for a week and realized why the prices on Navigons drop like a lead balloon just a few months after they are released!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Broke after 9 months
Comment: I loved this GPS while it lasted, but it quit after 6 months for absolutely no apparent reason.
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Editorial Reviews:
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With free lifetime traffic, Zagat Ratings, 3-D images of highway interchanges, Lane Assist, and text-to-speech, the Navigon 5100 is rich in features that directly empower navigation. Plus, it looks great on your dashboard. It’s slim — less than an inch thick — and sports an easy-to-read 3.5" touch screen wrapped in an elegant chrome frame.
The 5100 is the smaller sibling to Navigon's flagship 7100. The 5100 has a 3.5-inch screen, while the 7100 has a 4.3-inch widescreen. The 7100 also adds bluetooth-capability for hands-free mobile phone integration, so if you want that feature, do check out the 7100. Otherwise, the 5100 packs in a lot of useful features into its sleek frame.
Key Features
- Lifetime Traffic gives you traffic flow and incident information and alternate route suggestion for the life of your unit (Learn more)
- ZAGAT Ratings and Reviews gives you over 21,000 ratings and reviews for more than 70 cities in the U.S. and Canada (Learn more)
- 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.Â
- Lane Assistant:. Icons alert you to the optimal lane to be in (Learn more)
- Landscape and Portrait Views: landscape gives you a widescreen view of the road ahead; portrait looks and feels like a cell phone
- 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.
- Branded icons: places are so easy to find that everywhere will feel like home.
- DirectHelp: At-a-glance information helps you find emergency and roadside services—and helps them find you. Just push a button and get instant directions and phone numbers to the nearest hospitals, police stations, roadside assistance companies and pharmacies.
Easy Add-Ons - FreshMaps gives you up to 12 regular, trusted map updates for three years with a simple activation code.
Which Navigon is Right for You?
- Click here to see a chart comparing features on the entire family of Navigon portable GPS navigators
- Learn more about Navigon
Learn More
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.
All this is housed in an ultra-thin, sleek housing.
| The NAVIGON 5100 includes the industry's only subscription-free Lifetime Traffic service. Dynamic, real-time traffic feeds show you where traffic is slow and suggests alternate routes. Save time and stress. Real-Time Traffic is free for the lifetime of your NAVIGON 5100 and works out of the box. |
| Reality View™ provides 3D images and actual road sign text when approaching complex interchanges — so you’ll never miss your exit again.
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| No more wondering what lane you need to be in to stay on course. Your NAVIGON will guide you with simple to follow lane guidance with arrows so you can make your turn and stay on track.
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| 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 model. |
What's in the Box - NAVIGON 5100 GPS Navigator
- SD card preloaded with software and maps of US, Canada and Puerto Rico
- Rechargeable 1150 mAH lithium ion battery (rated for up to 4.5 hours)
- Integrated traffic receiver with free Lifetime Traffic updates
- Car Charger
- Car Mount
- Quickstart Guide and User Manual (on CD)
- 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.
| 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.
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| 1.3 million
| Requires Activation | Requires Activation | Requires Activation | 2120
| 3.5 inches | U.S and Canada
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| 1.3 million | Requires Activation | Requires Activation | Requires Activation | 2100 Max
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| 1.3 million | Requires Activation | Requires Activation | Requires Activation | 5100
| 3.5 inches
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| millions
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| Requires Activation | | 7100 | 4.3 inches
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NAVIGON Real-Time Traffic City Listing USA - Albany, NY
- Albuquerque, NM
- Allentown, PA
- Atlanta, GA
- Austin, TX
- Baltimore, MD
- Baton Rouge, LA
- Birmingham, AL
- Boston, MA
- Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC
- Chicago, IL
- Cincinnati, OH
- Cleveland, OH
- Colorado Springs, CO
- Columbia, SC
- Columbus, OH
- Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX
- Denver-Boulder, CO
- Des Moines, IA
- Detroit, MI
- Ft. Meyers, FL
- Ft. Pierce, FL
| - Greensboro-Winston Salem-High Point, NC
- Greenville, SC
- Harrisburg, PA
- Hartford-New Britain-Middletown, CT
- Houston-Galveston, TX
- Huntsville, AL
- Indianapolis, IN
- Jacksonville, FL
- Kansas City, MO
- Las Vegas, NV
- Lexington, KY
- Los Angeles, CA
- Louisville, KY
- Manchester, NH
- Madison, WI
- Memphis, TN
- Miami-Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood, FL
- Middlesex-Somerset-Union, NJ
- Milwaukee-Racine, WI
- Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
- Nashville, TN
- Nassau-Suffolk, NY
| - New Orleans, LA
- New York, NY
- Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News, VA
- Omaha, NE
- Orlando, FL
- Philadelphia, PA
- Phoenix, AZ
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Portland, OR
- Portsmouth, NH
- Providence-Warwick-Pawtucket, RI
- Raleigh-Durham, NC
- Richmond, VA
- Riverside-San Bernardino, CA
- Rochester, NY
- Sacramento, CA
- Salt Lake City-Ogden-Provo, UT
- San Antonio, TX
- San Diego, CA
- San Francisco, CA
- San Jose, CA
- Sarasota, FL
| - Seattle-Tacoma, WA
- Springfield, MA
- St. Louis, MO
- Syracuse, NY
- Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
- Toledo, OH
- Tucson, AZ
- Tulsa, OK
- Washington, DC
- West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, FL
- Worcester, MA
Canada - Toronto, ON
- Montreal, QC
- Ottawa, ON
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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.
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