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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:
 Do not buy this GPS! Not ready for Prime Time. December 27, 2007
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
What a piece of teutonic junk - to be polite. And the customer non-service is even worse than the product itself. When I called the customer service, their suggestion was to turn the unit on and off. When that didn't work, the know nothing customer service rep said a supervisor would call me back within a week. Hellloooo! Call me back in a week? Not acceptable, not at all. Never could get a signal, and tomorrow I am taking it back to the retailer. I would suggest you avoid all Navigon products, if only because of the total lack of customer service. I'll be uying a Garmin tomorrow.
 Between better and worser than a Garmin Nuvi December 26, 2007
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Comparing to a Garmin Nuvi (Mine's 660 and their latests are 750 to 770):
* Navigon comes with a cleaner graphical interface than Nuvi.
* Response time on entering addresses goes to Nuvi. There is a five second delay on the Navigon.
* Nuvi takes the shorter way for me avoiding highways and interstates, Navigon recommends me taking one constantly including making U-Turns to go on it which takes longer. When already on my old way, it takes three UTurn passes two keep it on my old course.
* Navigon needs a TMC antenna to get the traffic data while Nuvi has one in it's cigarette lighter.
* Navigon doesn't have MSN Data Service for gasoline prices and other cooler features. Nor XM Traffic Service.
* The keyboard is smaller than Nuvi. Buy a Stylus unless you have a PDA and have one. The buttons are smaller than Nuvi.
* Navigon lets you turn on lots of features Nuvi avoids showing you on the same screen such as:
** MPH
** Altitude (Not necessary if your car doesn't fly)
** Speed Warnings (Doesn't show unless your city is a Metro oddly)
** Turn Directions shows your turn configuration
* Day/Night isn't automatic as Nuvi is. You have to touch the viewscreen to change day and night.
* Zagat isn't up to date with minor cities and missing POIs you may actually be interested in. Zagat doesn't have any software downloads for it either.
* No software updates? What if they screwed something up and needs to be fixed?
Very satisfied December 24, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I did a lot of research before purchasing Navigon. It was a new product and I looked at the features of the product and decided to buy it, even though it would have been 'safer' to buy a Tomtom or Garmin. I have used it a lot in the last one month in more than 2-3 cities and have been VERY satisfied. Some quick notes -
Pluses:
1. Great user interface
2. Reality view is super!
3. By the way, some reviewers have said it cannot take you to an intersection. It does! They need to read the manual - it's actually very easy.
4. The windshield mount is very stable - very German.
5. Connects to the satellite very very fast. I am not able to understand why some people have written that it takes very long. I have never seen it take more than a minute and in fact have heard a Garmin customer complain that it takes a long time for her on her Garmin.
Minuses:
1. As many have said, the voice can be louder
2. The touch screen buttons are small, but they are not too bad.
3. Traffic information is mostly accurate, but it has been incorrect at times.
4. Couple of times it just hung on me and I had to 'reboot' it. I am hoping this is very rare (it may be because it runs Windows CE Core!!).
Overall, a great GPS!
Smart device but you will regret December 24, 2007
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
A. The system does NOT turn off automatically, upon switching off
the car (no power in the cig. lighter bay).
This is a MAJOR design problem.
Potentially, one can forget and have the system drained out.
B. The system does NOT work, if being charged at the same time (in car).
It will take at least 3 hours to recharge the internal battery.
Again, a MAJOR design problem.
C. The charging light(orange or green) can not be seen during
the day(only at night) and is making more difficult to
track the internal battery status(charging or not charging).
As a conclusion: very smart device but
you will regret if you buy it as I do.
 Better than Garmin, Tom Tom or Magellan December 22, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I drive a lot on Southern California Freeways and I really need a good TPS unit and traffic service. I've used GPS devices from Garmin, Tom Tom and Magellan and the bottom line is that the Navigon 5100 works better. I got tired of paying $144 per year for traffic reports and heard about the Navigon 5100 providing FREE traffic reports for life, so I bought one.
My big complaint is that I should have bought a Navigon sooner, because not only is the traffic report free (saving $144 per year) but the unit is far easier to use and more accurate.
The Navigon is much easier to use and gives far more accurate directions to your destination. It lets you read turn by turn directions and even takes the current traffic conditions into account in figuring which route to get you to your destination fastest.
Some reviewers said that the volume is not loud enough. Either this was an old problem (which has been fixed) or these people need new hearing aids. My Navigon 5100 is plenty loud to hear the directions just fine while driving at Freeway speeds, even with the radio on.
The Navigon even lets you choose to take a different route, like when you see a traffic problem before it is on the traffic report service and it will automatically figure out that you are going a different way and redirect you.
It isn't perfect, but it sure is better than the competitors. My only complaint is that the Navigon gives you 3 choices for toll roads (allow, avoid and forbid). While this works far better than Garmin, Tom Tom or Magellan, I would prefer to have choices like allow toll road only if it saves more than 5 minutes, 10 minutes, etc.
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