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Saturday, June 18, 2011
Navigon 2100 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator (Electronics)
Navigon 2100 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator (Electronics)
My rating is more like a 3.5 rounded off to 4. The rating reflects the price that I paid: ~$200 with lifetime traffic. Currently (12/07) it is priced at $175 without traffic. At this price I will give it 3 stars and would probably prefer products from Garmin/Magellan/Tom-Tom that also speak street names and are currently priced at around $225.
The good:
- Features for the price such as spoken street names, reality view, speedometer (I found out that my cars speedo is off by 6 mph!)
- Thin, Looks sleek
- Informs about upcoming turns 1 mi and 0.2/0.1 miles in advance. Most of the time it speaks up 0.1 miles before the turn, but sometimes it is 0.2 miles.
- Screen is bright and has got good resolution.
- There is a feature which increases the volume of the spoken directions with the speed of the vehicle. Very useful.
- Route recalculation is quick. Routes are reasonably good. I really don't care if the route is 0.1 mile longer than optimal. If I am going somwehere for the first time, I am more interested in reaching the correct destination. If I go somewhere regularly, I won't be using the gps anyway.
- Quickly finds the GPS signal. If coming out of sleep mode it takes less than 30 seconds. If you have turned it off, and then turn it on, it typically takes less than a minute.
- Suggests possible completions while you type in city/street names. In most cases you will see the desired match before typing in half of the name.
- Traffic service should be helpful if you hit slow moving traffic. Has not happend to me yet, but I do see lots of incident reports.
The not so good:
- Data entry is a bit slow (as it searches for possible matches).
- Sometimes route recalculation gets stuck if you are stopped at a red light. Frustrating.
- Pronunciation of city/street names is not very good.
- Voice start breaking up at heavy volume.
- Buttons at the corners are difficult to tap.
- Froze up on me once.
- Once it did not ask me to take an exit onto a freeway. I took it since I saw it on the screen.
I have not used the POI database. I hope that they take care of the software issues with an update. I believe there is a map update coming out in Jan. 2008. Overall I am statisfied for the price that I paid.
Navigon 2100 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator (Electronics)
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