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| Navigon 7100 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator | 
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| Brand: Navigon
Category: CE
List Price: $649.00
Buy New: $324.93
You Save: $324.07 (50%)
New (5) Used (5) Refurbished (2)
Avg. Customer Rating:  221 reviews
Sales Rank: 2475
Color: Piano Black
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Tracks: Unknown
Native Resolution: 480 x 272
Display Size: 4.3
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 1 x 5 x 4
MPN: 10000140
Model: 10000140
UPC: 898110001051
EAN: 0898110001051
ASIN: B000S11K5U
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Needs Some Improvements September 17, 2007
37 out of 43 found this review helpful
I owned this device for almost a week before returning it. On paper, this was SUPPOSED to be the premier GPS device. Well, not so much. I think, among folks that followed new GPS introductions, the Navigon 7100 was eagerly awaited here in the States. Most folks were banking on the success Navigon has had in Europe with Mobile Navigator. The software is rated very high in Europe. What I found with the Navigon is poor Customer Support, scaled down software versus what was promised (Text to speech only pronounces major streets, not local streets, and missing POI's), hardware misleadings (2gb vs ADVERTISED 4gb cards in device), and other issues like serious software bugs in the routing algorithm. Garmin provided a great product early on with a few minor bugs that they worked out QUICKLY, and therefore, solidified their early adopter customer base. Tom Tom did the same when they launched the Go here in the States. It seems Navigon didn't look at the US market with the same vigor as Garmin and Tom Tom did.
 Pretty good Product September 13, 2007
11 out of 18 found this review helpful
This is my first GPS unit so i have nothing to really compare this product to. I've used this GPS unit for 2 weeks now. The screen display is amazing and the text to speech is pretty accurate. The lane-assistant is a great feature and helps driving in unfamiliar areas. The TMC feature is also great and lets me how bad the traffic is while i'm driving
Few cons of this product is
1.) It sometimes thinks i'm on the correct road when i'm actually on the road parallel to it
2.) The traffic updates only works when i have the external antenna plugged in
3.) It doesn't calculate the shortest time route all the time. I compared this by using the route it suggested when i went home. It kind of went in a round-a-about way.
However despite these cons i plan to keep this product
 Wait until they get the bugs out September 12, 2007
36 out of 41 found this review helpful
I agree with Twelly on most points. I've been using the Navigon 7100 along with my Nuvi 360 for a week. The Navigon fails miserably when it comes to recalculating a route. It will try to double back and put you on the original route, even adding many extra miles. Whereas the Nuvi never made a mistake when recalculating. The swivel joint became loose after attaching the unit 5 times. The Navigon is a beautiful unit but if I want to upgrade my screen I would purchase the Nuvi 660. The Nuvi also will load my telephone book when I use my cell phone whereas the Navigon will not. The Navigon 7100 cd manual has 88 pages and is well written. There are alot of features, so many that to fit on the screen everything is very small and hard to read for my eyes. Also the battery in mine only lasts approximately 1.5 hours. I followed the directions and charged it overnight before it's first use. In order to use it i've had to keep it plugged into the dc jack.
I would suggest waiting for Navigon to get their act together before purchasing. I am returning mine to Amazon today.
I'm not happy with this unit September 11, 2007
127 out of 147 found this review helpful
Good:
1. Free traffic report with option to take alternate route
2. Bright and sharp lcd display
3. Lane-assist feature
4. Voice-recognition
5. Nice map display, you can see route few miles ahead
Bad:
1. 50-60% of the time it gives very long routes compared to other gps units. One time it instructed us to take an exit from the freeway and after few miles it pointed us back to the same freeway.
2. Sometimes the voice assist doesn't match with what is shown in the map. The map shows straight line and yet it instructed us to take a right turn and an immediate left turn.
3. Failed to find some well known POIs if do a search from your current location, but it did find it when you do a search by city.
4. The user interface is not very intuitive and a bit sluggish. The scroll bar for turn-by-turn is very close to the route list and you can easily hit one of them when you scroll up/down.
5. No auto Night mode.
6. The circular swivel is too loose.
When I tried to contact Navigon's customer support they wanted me to contact Navteq for the route problem. I mean c'mon why do I have to deal with multiple companies for a single product. Overall, I'm not happy with the unit. I will be returning this product. I might reconsider purchasing it again once they fixed all these issues.
Good device..But too early to buy September 11, 2007
107 out of 127 found this review helpful
I've enjoyed this new car navigation system for a week and decided to return it. As you may expected this unit has very good graphical interface. In 2D and 3D mode, the displayed map is always beautiful. In the view of performance, this unit has a kind of reasonable performance. Recalculation of route is fast enough. At least the speed is same as that of its competitors. GPS reception is also good, I think it has the newest SiRF III chipset and it guarantees superb reception performance. Free traffic monitoring is one of the best features of this unit. I think lots of people (including myself) buy this because of the free TMC. It works pretty well. 3D view of freeway interchange point is also helpful.
But, in spite of these superiorities, I decided to give up using Navigon 7100 because,
1) Well known (?) memory issue. Mine has 2GB legacy SD card, instead of 4GB faster SD card. I've never tested the performance difference between the two SD's. But I think they will show difference. Even though I can assume the difference is very small, 2GB memory has too small free space for upgrading or user data. Simply, I don't want to buy 2GB with 4GB price.
2) Although the GPS reception is good, it takes too much time for it to initialize the system. It takes 3~5 minute to get the GPS signal after turning on the device. Even you are in the opened area. (If it gets signal once, it can keep the signal pretty well. That's why I think the reception is good.) This is too painful. I have to spend such a long time to start the navigation. You know, I can drive fair amounts of distance in 3 min. If I drive to wrong direction in this dead time, I have to spend more time to get back. This is very annoying.
3) The awkward routing algorithm. Sometimes, it makes me lot of turns even though there is a straight road connection. If there are several parallel roads, it always designates a specific road to drive, in spite of the efficiency. Because there is no traffic information for the local road, occasionally, it guided me to the most jammed road. if I drive away from the jammed road and take another parallel road, it always keep saying "go back to the jammed road" (even though there's no difference in efficiency between two paths and two paths are parallel) sometimes, it picked up a very weird route regardless of the routing option. It will make your travel time doubled.
4) The awkward rerouting by traffic monitoring. Free TMC is definitely the best feature of this device. But this feature sometimes makes the trip time doubled. Let's say you are at point A. You have to drive to point C, 10 miles away from A, through a freeway. But from point B, 9 miles away from A, there's heavy traffic and totally jammed. Then the fastest way to drive to C is taking the freeway and drive to B, then taking locals to C. -But if Navigon gets this traffic information, it will guide you just local road and avoid entire freeway sections. If the freeway is long enough, maybe it redirects you to freeway. But it guided me to locals from Santa Monica to LA downtown and avoided 10 miles whole i-10 section. That was 9:00PM and there was a slow traffic at very near the downtown. This is nonsense. To avoid this situation, when it notifies you the traffic, you have to check the map very carefully and decide to avoid or ignore. You have to do it, while you are driving, even in 60+ miles. That may kill you.
I think Navigon has tried their best, but still not enough. Definitely, it has some superiority over its competitors. But, also it has very critical bugs that can make you very nervous. I think you'd better wait though it's very attractive. You can buy this after they fix lots of bugs other users and I suffered. Don't be a beta tester of Navigon paying more than $500.
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