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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: 321
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 for the Price January 7, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great unit for the price. the graphics are really clear. Lots of options, more than higher priced units. Love that it tells you the speed you are traveling. Speed limit indication is nice to have on the unit. The only downfalls I saw with the unit is a tad bit slow on the touch screen response. Not enough to make me want another unit. The second downfall is that you cannot just do a search for a place by typing in the place. You have to search by going through steps that make it a little frustrating.
5100 Opinion January 5, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've had the 5100 for about two weeks now. Also tried the 7100. After using both, the 5100 serves our needs better. Both have excellent maps, visually second to none (and I've looked at all brands - my mother has a garmin). Route accuracy and calculation speed is close to Garmin. On inner cities, the unit can make mistakes, but they all do. Reality view is great, pronunications are ok. The turning reminders are really nice - similar to other brands, but add a final reminder just as the turn occurs. Very nice.
Interface seems much quicker than the 7100. We didn't find the need for bluetooth or the larger screen. The 5100 seemed much faster. All I can figure is it is a newer revision of software, but not positive.
What could be better? Volume could be louder, and it would be nice to simpify the map screen with less information (even with some elements removed it is cluttered on the bottom). While the maps are much nicer, the garmins have an easier to read display of distance and time remaining.
All in all a very nice unit for the price. Or other finalist was the Garmin 260 but as noted gave it to my mother and kept this one for us!
Amazing GPS January 5, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This GPS blows away the competition and the so called cheaper GPS that preted they are the real deal for $200. Navigon has almost 5+ years for features ahead of the other GPS systems. Not only does it auto track a route but does it in a split second so you do not have to wait for the signal or the satellite to show your the 'new route' when you miss a turn. City navigation is awesome with the real time graphical exits that it shows. I have used this in Boston and New York alike and blazed the streets like it was my hometown :D
 Someone did not understand what drivers need... January 2, 2008
21 out of 26 found this review helpful
Rather than going into a prolonged review regarding the items I would like to focus on the issues that make this GPS most annoying. So much so that after having had it for 2 months I stopped using it altogether.
Here goes, not in any particular order of annoyance:
#1) Switching it on: there is a tiny leveled button that you, according to the manual, have to hold for 6 seconds to turn the GPS on. It is more like 10 seconds and you will be leaning forward reaching over your steering wheel to do this. Not a disaster if you are parked but if you decide to switch this on while driving you are in for a real treat that is actually dangerous.
#2) In conjunction with #1 this is a real annoying one. The item is ALWAYS powered. So even if you turn off the car this baby is sucking the life out of your battery. Ind it does so pretty aggressively due top a lack of powersave or sleep mode.
#3) The text is SOOOOOOO small. I mean as in TINY. I have 20/20 vision and for the life of me cannot read any of the detail on the display unless I stoop over and put my face right in front of it. DANGEROUS if you are driving. Add some of the extra info to the screen and this becomes a joke. Note that my car is a 2007 Honda Civic and the swingarm is right next to the speedometer... What the hell, Navigon.
#4) The Traffic Alert feature, main reason why I bought this GPS, if just a pop up list with slow traffic or accident alerts. Here's where it just does not work:
- there are so many alerts that it becomes a barrage of messages when you live near a great city
- the messages display as text with an exclamation. So expect something like SLOW TRAFFIC NEAR SIBLEY, but it does not show where or how you will be hitting Sibley nor if it is even on your route. HOW THE HELL do I know if it is common to have traffic on Sibley and how bad is the alternative? Well, I tried the AVOID option and landed in the heart of traffic lights and more cars and got completely jammed up. Since there is no traffic alert on the reroute the cure sucked worse than the disease
- the listings are so tiny that you cannot read them unless you lean real close
- the listings require you to choose AVOID or SKIP every time. Not so bad if you live in Montana but I drive around Chicago and the listing is a NEVER ENDING barrage of pop ups and YOU CAN'T see the navigation unless you click away the pop ups. Combine this with a tiny screen that is far away due to the crazy crappy mount (other #'s) and you will switch the feature off pretty quickly. It is dangerous as you are constantly interacting with this GPS rather than driving your car.
#5) The sound... oh the sound... I mean WHAT SOUND. The speaker CANNOT be heard if you are doing 65 miles an hour with your radio off unless you have a whisper quiet Lexus or Caddy. I drive a Honda and it must suck to be me as I cannot hear the lady speak. This forces you to read the tiny micro font... 'nuf said about that.
#6) The mount works but that is about it. It if nice that you can tilt the screen etc but it is not flexible and forces the GPS to be VERY far away from you if you want to put it at the right height. Dilemma that cannot be fixed. Especially not when you drive a Honda.
#7) The REAL VIEW feature is only available in what they think are complex situations but frankly when you need it it does not show up. Most complex situations have enough signs to guide you through open heart surgery. I need it when there is nothing telling me where to go. Not worth the hype.
#8) Turning it off. I have to sit stooped over squeezing (or hoping I am hitting it) a tiny hidden button for what seems like an eternity until the damn things switches off... unless you want it to stay on into eternity.
#9) It is completely unclear form the manual and package how to update this thing online. I plugged it in an nothing happened. Since I stopped using it after 2 months I guess it does not matter much. I am back to my monochrome and beloved Garmin, sure if falls of the windshield when it freezes outside but I can still hear her telling me where to go.
Final thoughts of a raging gadgeteer: I wonder if it can be used as a projectile in road rage situations. I also wonder who let a computer game designer spec a GPS unit; obviously the design team is a bunch of treehuggers on bicycles that have not yet had the pleasure of trying the Navigonad 5100 in a real car. Blah and much cursing.
Final final remark: I have it on a well-known auction site without a minimum price, but note that you were warned if you decide to bid.
Very nice little device December 31, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Had this for 2 days. Works very well. It shows POIs that I did not even know in my area. The functions are much better than the GPS I had in my car. USB does charge the 5100. The handle is weird but does it job well. Nothing comes loose. The looks and feels of the 5100 are definitely of German quality. So far I have entered 5 locations and the 5100 finds them all. The Traffic warning has saved me time on one occasion where there was a sig-alert on Freeway 10.
The price/features of the 5100(when on sale on Amazon) is unbeatable.
I would strongly recommend the 5100.
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