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| Navigon 2100 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator | 
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| Brand: Navigon
Category: CE
List Price: $249.00
Buy New: $129.90
You Save: $119.10 (48%)
New (37) Used (3) Refurbished (5) from $114.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  126 reviews
Sales Rank: 250
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Native Resolution: 320 x 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 1 x 4 x 3
nv:Type: Receiver
Touch Screen: Yes
Expansion Slots: SD Card
Battery Type: 1100 mAh lithium ion battery
Battery Life: 3.5 hours
MPN: 10000170
Model: 10000170
UPC: 898110001105
EAN: 0898110001105
ASIN: B000W6EUOE
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new item. Never opened. Fast shipping.
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| Features:
| • | Ready out-of-the-box. Just turn on and go! | | • | Superbly accurate, door-to-door directions. Coast to coast maps of the continental U.S. | | • | Spoken directions including street names via text-to-speech. | | • | Reality View makes complex highway junctions easy to navigate. | | • | Simple-to-use 3.5" touchscreen with predictive and animated menus. |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com Product Description -- November 11, 2007
In the U.S., German-based Navigon may be the biggest name in GPS you've never heard. Navigon has long been a major provider of navigation software to automotive manufacturers for in-dash gps navigation devices, but only recently did they introduce portable navigation devices under their own name. What they offer up, however, demonstrates immediately that this is a company that knows navigation inside and out.
The 2100 is the lowest-priced (and smallest) of Navigon's line of portable GPS navigators. While it lacks some of the features of it's bigger siblings, the 7100 and 5100, it packs solid navigation and some unique features into its diminutive frame.
The Navigon Family of Portable Navigators
The 2100 and 5100 have 3.5-inch screens, while the 7100 has a 4.3-inch widescreen. The big difference is that the 5100 and 7100 come with free lifetime traffic data, while with the 2100 you have to buy an activation code separately. The 5100 and 7100 have a feature called "Lane Assistant" that will suggest which lane you should be driving in, but that's not such a big deal. Another important difference is that the 7100 also adds bluetooth-capability for hands-free mobile phone integration, which is really handy. If you want that feature, do check out the 7100. This chart may help as well.
| Screen Size (diagonally)
| Bluetooth
| Lifetime Traffic Data Service
| Lane Assistant
| Reality View
| Zagat Ratings
| POIs
| 2100
| 3.5 inches
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| Requires Purchase of Activation Code
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| 1.3 million
| 5100
| 3.5 inches
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| Included Free
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| | 7100 | 4.3 inches
| | Included Free
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Intuitive, animated menus offer predictive text input, helping you select your destination quickly. View larger. | 
The reality view guides you with photo-realistic 3D images of junctions. View larger. | Navigon decided not to try to add multimedia features like a photo viewer or MP3 player into its devices, but instead focused on navigation-based features. The 2100 provides precise turn-by-turn directions, including spoken road names via text-to-speech
Reality view guides you with photo-realistic 3D images of junctions, complete with actual sign text and exit ramp guidance. This makes translating what the navigator is telling you to what you see on the road instantaneous. Superior Software and Hardware
The features and functions of the Navigon 2100 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 its extra-large and elegant, high-contrast 3.5-inch, full-color touch-screen display. The 5100 includes 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 chrome housing that weighs only 6.3 ounces, and measures just 4.2 x 3.3 x 0.9 inches (W x H x D). The Navigon 5200 even comes pre-loaded with complete maps of the U.S. and Canada, providing you with superbly accurate, seamless door-to-door directions wherever your vehicular travels might take you. Note that the 2100 runs 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. What's in the Box
Navigon 2100 GPS Navigator, SD card preloaded with software and maps of the continental US, rechargeable 1150 mAH lithium ion battery (rated for up to 4.5 hours),
car charger, car mount, quickstart guide, limited warranty 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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 121 more reviews...
 Awesome GPS May 15, 2008
The Navigon 2100 is an awesome GPS. It has superior features and is very easy to use.
Navigon rocks after updating it with the new software version 1.2 May 14, 2008
I had to write this review to alert other Navigon 2100 (5100) users in case they are not aware of this. If you have purchased 2100 or 5100 recently, it has perhaps v1.1 installed. Please register with Navigon and download the latest software which is v1.2. I Purchased the 2100 a few months back and loved the maps and the reality views but was disappointed with the interface and software had some bugs. I was recently alerted by Navigon that a newer version of the software which also included map updates was available (which is awsome as compare to other GPS makers which normally don't offer free map updates). After I upgraded the device with v1.2, I am very pleased with this GPS. The device locks on the GPS signal even when i am sitting inside my house. It also acquires the signal fairly quickly under normal conditions and is great in the city driving with tall building (as in NYC) and will not lose the signal (this was even before the upgrade). I have to say that after upgrading to v1.2, all my complaints are gone. I haven't noticed any issues thus far yet. One caveat is that downloading the 1.5 GB file will take a very long time and will remind you of the days when dial-up was the king. This is perhaps due to limited bandwidth issues with Navigon servers. Use Windows XP to download this large file as IE in Vista kept on crashing in my experience. Those who are looking to buy Garmin and other top brand names GPS, should seriously consider Navigon.
 not worth it's cost May 9, 2008
Maps are outdated, hard to get support on the phone. Support on line is ok to above averaqge.
The unit is hard to read (small fonts for eta, etc ) and hard to program (limited choices). I own 4 different units and would rate this as the last one to choose.
I tested all of them and this unit has an "interesting" way of directing you to your location. From were I live to downtown (fastest, shortest, etc) would take you through roads that are way out of the way.
Sorry
 Do not buy it. May 9, 2008
I already bought the Garmin 200 for someone. This was a great GPS. I thought I would buy something different for myself. I thought the real style graphics on the Navigon would be interesting. Plus it would announce the names of the streets. This was a horrible unit. No instruction booklet. Difficult to use. Too many sub catergories to go to. The interesting graphics only came up when you arrive at a difficult situation. I promptly returned this unit and bought a Garmin 260. Fantastic gps. Easy to use. Very user friendly. Announces names of streets. Should of avoided the headache with the Navigon from the start.
Didn't work well for me -- wrong turn instructions, bad route choice May 9, 2008
Admittedly, I only used this once, for the drive home from Radio Shack to my house. And, admittedly, I live in the country where some online map sites have trouble navigating. (But Google Maps can find our house and all street names without problem.)
Now for the Navigon 2100: While at Radio Shack, I entered our home address and said go. It worked for a couple of miles, until I needed to turn into the library. When leaving the library, it told me I had to turn left to get back on the correct route when not only did I need to turn right, it was the only option. Then once I got just past the main edge of the city, it didn't have any indication that there were side streets in some cases, even for streets that have been there for years. Then it gave me a route two miles out of the way to get to my house. Finally, it told me I'd arrived at my house about a mile before I got there. (Our house was built 18 years ago so it's not like we're in a new subdivision.)
Maybe others will have better luck if they travel within more populated areas where more time was spent getting the maps right. That's why I'm giving it two stars, because it might work better for the majority of people than it did for me and my situation. But I'm returning this on my next trip back into town.
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