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| Navigon 5100 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Text-to-Speech and Lifetime Traffic | 
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| Brand: Navigon
Category: CE
List Price: $499.00
Buy New: $119.95
You Save: $379.05 (76%)
New (23) Used (3) Refurbished (5)
Avg. Customer Rating:  129 reviews
Sales Rank: 318
Color: Chrome
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Native Resolution: 320 x 240
Display Size: 3.5
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 1 x 4 x 3
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
MPN: 10000130
Model: 10000130
UPC: 898110001044
EAN: 0898110001044
ASIN: B000U5W4R2
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great GPS at a great price. October 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was my first GPS purchase. I was looking for something that had bells and whistles and didn't break the bank. This hit that mark.
Only issue is I live in a more rural area. So finding certain places was a tad of a chore, because the mailing address of some places didn't match the physical address that the GPS uses. I had to use the POI within a certain zip code to find where I needed to be. No big issue.
The speaker was load enough for me. Great guide. Told me what lane I needed to be at all times. I only missed one turn and that really wasn't its fault. I was coming out of a toll to a complex exit and heavy traffic. But it re-routed me to where i needed to be perfectly.
Not for someone who is a technophobe as map updates require some effort. I will buy a navigon product again.
 Not Good October 23, 2008
Amazon service is great but this product from Navigon is not good. I used it twice for my travel and route direction were not bad. But it is very slow in response. 2D-3D views are not upto my expectations. POI's are big disappointment. I returned back to Amazon.
 Poor LA Freeway Traffic Info, OK otherwise October 23, 2008
I got this gps primarily for the live traffic coverage for driving in the Los Angeles area. Before buying it, I tried to ascertain whether or not it covered non-freeways, but was unable to. Well, I needed to upgrade, and the year-end price was decent, so I gave it a try.
The good: in areas where there are no traffic or mapping issues, it was a nice navigation info source while driving. One especially nice feature when routing is that when there is a turn, after it announces the upcoming turn, it prompts you to turn right before you should do so ("Turn right .... now"). That is handy when driving in unfamiliar territory and there are multiple choices. And after reading the manual, I found it mostly easy to use, once I got used to its idiosyncracies.
The bad:
- LA Traffic Coverage is freeway only, so when you are driving one of the essential routes that is not freeway (like the pacific coast highway), generally there is no traffic data. Where there have been trafffic incidents that hit the news, I have turned this on to see what it says. Generally nothing is reported unless it is very major, and then it has trouble getting the location right because it only seems to be able to give freeway locations. For example, when there was the Chatsworth train crash, it reported the nearby freeway closed, even though it was the affected surface streets which were closed. When there was a crash that closed part of Canyon Blvd, it reported that the PCH was closed nearby, which is very different (and it actually showed a traffic alert on the PCH, which it doesn't seem to normally do). NOTE: this is a fault of the traffic service, not the navigon itself.
- It seems to preferably route on highways, even if they are clogged, and initially had trouble rerouting when I took better routes. It kept wanting me to go farther and farther out of my way to get back to where I had originally diverged from its planned route, even when I rejoined the planned route farther along. However, subsequent times taking my preferred route, this problem did not happen.
- When you zoom and pan and get the screen just how you like it, and then resume routing, it goes back to close zoom when you leave the pan and zoom mode. This is hard when you are looking at the whole freeway system to decide how you are going to get from A to B and you want to keep observing it. That should be fixable in firmware.
- Restaurant coverage is not good in remote locations. This is not surprising, but driving around northern California in the small coastal towns, it would have only about 1/3 or 1/4 of the major restaurants listed,
Except for the poor live traffic coverage (which is what I got it for), it is useful and I am comfortable using it. But because of that, and other improvements are happening so fast in the gps world, I can only rate it 3 stars.
 great item ! October 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
very good item works great . got me in and out of buffalo with no problems (having never been there before), very easy to use .the best feature is that the unit tells you what lane you need to be in for the approaching interchange this was very helpful on several occasions. would and have recomended several times.
A very usable GPS October 21, 2008
I bought this for our daughter, who is in graduate school in a large city and an internship that requires her to travel to facilities scattered over a 50 mile radius. I chose this because it was the only GPS in this price range that offered a visual depiction of interchanges so that she could see which one to take. It has worked very well for her. The only drawback we have found is that it does not 'like' her shortcuts in areas that she knows well, such as our home neighborhood. I think this is a general problem with GPS in general, because my husband's GPS 'objects' to his shortcuts too. If only they could learn alternative routes!
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