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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: $249.99
You Save: $399.01 (61%)
New (9) Used (4) Refurbished (3)
Avg. Customer Rating:  213 reviews
Sales Rank: 427
Color: Piano Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
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:
 superb gps October 7, 2008
This by far the best gps. Easy to use touch screen. I liked the no fee subscription.
navigon 7100 October 6, 2008
This is an excellent system. My only problem is that the mounting arm is awkward and breaks easily.
 lost October 4, 2008
I recently replaced my Garmin C530 with a Navigon 7100. While I have yet to actually use it on a trip, practicing with it around town has been informative and fun. some of the likes and dislikes are:
Pros: A free software and map update right out of the box.
text to speech is good
Updates for the maps via fresh maps is inexpensive and has 3 years worth of updates for less than the price of one update for the Garmin.
The free traffic monitor is a great feature
Bluetooth is a plus except you have to pair it up everytime you turn the device on.
Cons:
Low volume, for us older users this can make it somewhat difficult
The hockey stick mount, Navigon may think it's pretty but it breaks easily and looks like a club. (Fortunately you can find conventional mounts on line fairly inexpensively.
Overall it is a good unit that I would purchase again. Amazon got it to me quickly without hassle.
 Navigon; not bad... but not great either September 29, 2008
The 7100 is not a bad GPS unit. Out of the many I ploughed through trying to find something that worked for me (Garmin, Tom Tom, Magellan), this one gets the closest. I'll probably go to my grave looking for a perfect GPS, as every one seems to be lacking in this or that department. But the Navigon gets the closest, and there's a free lifetime subscription to TMC real-time traffic updates as well!
One thing I'd say is, definitely step up from the "hardcase" case that Navigon officially sactions; it's better than the cloth bag included with the unit, but you'll still probably end up like me with a crack in the corner of the screen, because the "hardcase" is not really rigid in the middle and won't put up any fight if the unit is jostled or subjected to any kind of pressure while in a knapsack or such thing.
The lane assist comes in handy a lot of times, and seems extremely accurate on highways. The routing can seem a bit wonky sometimes, but there is no other unit on the market that gives perfect routes all the time. There has been an update to the routing engine through a firmware update, but it still is well, wonky. To mitigate this though, you have a pretty robust scheme for adjusting the route manually if the provided path sends you astray. The firmware also adjusts the touch response of the screen, so you'll get less frustration trying to press buttons.
Bluetooth works pretty good, although you need to connect (not pair up with) to the phone when you power the unit up and want to use handsfree. This requires a couple of keystrokes in the UI of the unit.
A couple of final points: the onscreen text; it has been slightly tweaked with the update but still I find it's pretty small, both on the map itself as well as some points in the menu system. And speaking of the menu, searching for POIs is pretty counter-intuitive. The categories don't make a lot of sense and doing broad searches across categories doesn't seem to work right and leads to a lot of major franchises not turning up in results.
Like I said, no GPS is perfect, and the Navi still needs some tweaking. But none of my complaints change the fact that it is a very serviceable GPS with good routing, a valuable lane assist scheme, great looking screen and lifetime traffic.
A Life-Saver September 24, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
First a disclaimer: I have never previously owned or used a GPS system, so I have nothing with which to compare the Navigon 7100 and can only offer my own observations of this unit.
In general I agree with Michael's review, so I won't repeat all those points, but will describe some of my experiences.
First, when I received the unit and started to learn how to use it, I would have appreciated a paper user's manual. Old-fashioned, I guess.
Fortunately, I had three days from the time of its arrival before our trip to North Carolina. As I tried the various features, I noticed that a point of interest displayed was a pharmacy that was sold several years ago and no longer exists. Then, I noticed that the exit numbers on an Ohio Interstate were different from those on an atlas. Those numbers were changed quite some time ago, so I deduced that the map data were old and not dependable. This on a brand-new unit!
Being somewhat computer savvy, I went to the Navigon Web site and tried to download updated data to the 7100. However, try as I might, all I could get was a "device not recognized" response. After several tries, I called Navigon and talked to a helpful young lady who told me that I could not download the revised data until I installed the "new program."
What? I don't see any mention in the enclosed materials of a new program -- nor on the initial Web site.
Anyway, following instructions I was able to download and install the new program (operating system?) and then the new data.
So, with the unit firmly attached to the windshield, we set off from Indiana to North Carolina. The way we wanted to go was not the choice of the 7100, so I looked on the atlas for Route 9 in Kentucky. Not knowing how to use the route number as an intermediate waypoint, I picked a town that looked like it was on Route 9.
The unit took us flawlessly across Indiana, around Cincinnati, and onto Route 9. However, it turned out that the town I chose is not exactly on the highway; it is slightly to the East. Thereafter, at every junction for 30 or 35 miles, she (female voice) tried to get us to turn around and go to that town. Very irritating.
On the other hand, when we got to Winston-Salem, we were to change highways. Unfortunately, the exit ramp we were to take was filled with police cars, fire engines, ambulances and, of course, an accident. As soon as we passed that exit, she immediately told us to take the next exit into the city and, in five minutes and two or three turns later we were on our correct highway going in the right direction.
Fantastic! I felt that the unit had paid for itself right then.
We stayed in Raleigh for over a week and had to make numerous trips to various places in this city, which was strange to us. The 7100 reliably took us to every address we had to visit, though the routes were sometimes a little weird.
And pronunciations of street names and places were often strange: Statesville became "stat-ess-veal" and Kettlebrook drive became "kett-lee-brok.
As we traveled from Raleigh to Asheville on Interstate 40, we got insistent commands to take the exit to the right in a place there was no exit for miles.
On the way to Asheville, we stopped at a friend's house in the town of Mocksville. The 7100 took us straight through the middle of town on a state highway -- except that there was no highway there. We did find our friends' house, and it turns out that the highway used to go through the town but now bypasses it. Our friends say that change was made before they moved there eight years ago.
Finally, heading home, as we approached Indianapolis, the unit tried to get us to turn right off I-65 onto I-465 instead of left. Had we not known better we'd have been headed east rather than west, though I suppose it would then have wanted us to make a U-turn.
My conclusion: Overall the unit performed very well, seeming almost magically accurate at times. It never failed to get us to our destination.
Incidentally, it is almost impossible not to anthropomorphize the thing; we call her Bertha.
I think we'll keep her.
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