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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:
 Its nicer than the Magellan 4040 December 11, 2007
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
As a 2 month user of the Magellan 4040, I have a good comparison to the Navigon 5100. The Navigon is better executed than the Magellan and here is why.
The voice is used much better and more sparingly.
Turn prompts are delivered at a useful distance for you to take action. The routes are saner.
Its much faster in calculating routes than the 4040 and faster to recalc, a very important function.
Much easier to type in destinations than the Magellan.
Auto lookup of streets and cities is far superior.
Touch screen is very sensitive unlike the Magellan.
Navigon is cheaper than Magellan, $[...](rebate) to >$[...].
Navigon is made in USA, Magellan is China
Navigon has many more useful options than Magellan, such as speed limit warnings which you can disable or it will tell you when you are speeding.
Traffic warning, Magellan doesn't have it for free.
As for the cons,
Magellan has more POI's.
Its a 4.3 inch screen, Navigon that tiny 3.5 inch and its hard to read text, although the map is fine.
Its mount is usable either on the window or console. The Navigon can only be used on the window. Slick mount though for the Navigon.
Magellan voice is louder but diction not as clear as Navigon.
User interface on Magellan is easier to learn.
Magellan has bluetooth, Navigon doesn't.
Sometimes Navigon gave a goofy reroute on the first iteration, then within a couple seconds, it would recalc with the right way to go. In the time it took me to realize it had made a mistake, it was telling me another route that was right, so no big deal. Never had this problem with Magellan.
Magellan does update its website with patches, not sure about Navigon.
Overall, for the price, the Navigon is a great value. But if you got the coin, get the bigger screen on the 7100, its probably worth it.
 navigon - 5100 Save yuor Money December 8, 2007
6 out of 14 found this review helpful
Cool looking device but imagine your were somewhere and wanted to buy a gift, or your wanted to go to a bike shop or you wanted to go shopping at macy's. i hope you can call someone and ask them for the address because this GPS will not tell you. thats right.. there are NO retail outlets AT ALL!! I had a garmin 330C from about 3 yrs ago and I wanted to upgrade but that old machine was so much better in that it had retail stores and also the ability for a intersection search.
So If I tell you I'll meet you at the coner of Smith and 7th, guess what.....you'll be late...because this device lacks that feature as well. Look for something that has retail outlets, intersections and spell by name..Do yourself a favor and Save your Money.. there are better machines
Real Good one to go for... December 8, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Got a Navigon 5100 model. Pretty slick, in size, appearance and performance.
The directions given are very acurate and thru better routes. Tried fooling it by taking different routes, the route recalculation was done almost in no time. That was fast... Real Fast, without asking it to do it...
The two point voice alert is good one, one when you are near the turn it says that "take right / left turn in to street name in .x miles" and the second one right on the turn, which says that "turn right / left now".
The reality views in highway separations are really a good feature which stood upto its expectations.
It proved wrong on some of the things that i read in some of the reviews, like sound was not audible, brightness wasnt okay, etc. My experience with the device is wonderful and didnt find any of these problems with sound or brightness.. Infact the direction shown on the map is wonderfully color differentiated and very clear in showing the routes.
One thing that i found "true" with the other reviews, is that the points of interest doesn't bring all the retailers. Thats one thing that i feel need to be improved... Hopefully this will be updated soon thru software updates.
In all the other sections i would rate this to 5/5.
!!! BEWARE OF THIS PRODUCT !!! December 4, 2007
3 out of 14 found this review helpful
No matter how cute this looks.
The company carries no spare parts what so ever.
So if your battery dies or your charger damages.
This item goes to the Museum.
 Close enough to perfect given its price December 2, 2007
Having just purchased this for less than $300, and looking forward to a $50 rebate, the net cost of less than $250 makes this hands down the best value on the GPS market today. Though not flawless, the 5100 has more high end features than any other GPS in its price range.
Best features:
1) Text to speech (it can read street names) - not as smooth as the feature's execution by Garmin, but I couldn't find another GPS at $250 with the feature.
2) Free traffic reporting - has already saved me time driving around NYC.
3) Reality view - not real-life, but enough to make complex interchanges easier to navigate.
The satellite acquisition times are reasonable (under 3 minutes), and the volume plenty loud. Routing is handled well, and reroutes are quick and smooth.
Overall, I'd buy this again.
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