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Great GPS for a great price
Navigon stopped selling and supporting all GPS units in the United States. They decided to go with an iPhone only app.
I have enough going on with my iPhone, so I wanted a GPS unit that was small and easy to use and included traffic. For the price the Navigon 5100 GPS with 4.3" widescreen display that includes Free lifetime traffic was a perfect fit.
The impressive thing to me was how well the traffic works. I drive highway miles (in the Chicagoland area) and it has told me of backups and accidents before I start my route. I can choose to avoid them and re-route or not.
The maps were also very current. I have owned a TomTom and Garmin. Keeping the maps updated was no fun and it took way to long to get the current maps. This unit had all the current maps loaded which was a nice feature.
One Con is that it is almost impossible to find the map updates to purchase. So if there are major road changes it won't have them in the future.
To recap: If you want a Widescreen GPS with Free Lifetime traffic, this unit will not let you down. I only rated it Good because the units were discontinued, if it wasn't for that I would rate these as Excellent.Lire l'avis complet...
A Pretty Good GPS
I like this GPS. At first I was having trouble using the touchscreen, but then I just calibrated and it worked great. The unit is compact but has large enough buttons to make the touch screen usuable. The navigation is pretty much what you are going to get with any system. When you come up to an exit on an interstate, a picture will appear that show what lane you need to be in in order to make the exit (lane assist). I thought that was pretty usefull. You will also see other things on the map as you drive such as restaurants, parking, gas stations, parks, that are known as points of interest. You then have the option of selecting one of these and adding it to your preexisting navigation. Takes a little while to turn on (keep the button held in, it will eventually turn on). User manual said 6 seconds, but its more like 10 - 12. Also took about a minute or two to get the satalite signal to start tracking. All in all, a pretty good GPS at a great price.Lire l'avis complet...
Good GPS for the $
I bought this particular GPS because of the price. I only need one occasionally, I didn't want to spend a lot for a unit I use once a month and it had the features I wanted, mostly text to voice and touch screen, plus it has traffic reports, all for about $100.
The good is the maps seem accurate, it doesn't take that long to acquire the satellites and calculates routes quickly.
The bad is it is not the easiest to input addresses, and for me the text is too small but I need glasses for reading but not driving.
Bottom line I am happy with it for the price but my next GPS will have a bigger screen. At $100 you have to make sacrifices on what you get and this one had the least of those I looked at and I looked at all the less expensive models.Lire l'avis complet...
Navigon 5100 GPS, a poor choice
First, I must say that I needed to return the item, twice, and moved on to another manufacturer. The Navigon 5100 max was exclusively distributed by Radio Shack, and at first glance appeared to have all of the attributes of a unit costing several hundred dollars more. Radio Shack has discontinued this item. I now understand why.
The display was excellent and the 3D view was better than both the Magellan and Garmin. The lane assist was also excellent and mirrored the Garmin 1490T. Routing was also very good with clear voice instructions. Traffic assist was there, but I found it to be inconsistant. (Interestingly, the Advertising that pops up on the screen on both the Magellan 1475T and the Garmin 1490T was absent on the Navigon.) Working with the viewing and detour options while driving was difficult.
Now for the BAD. The Navigon web site is poorly constructed and receiving updates and logging on was impossible. There is NO customer support. Once I finally was able to register the second unit, I lost well over 24 hours of computer time trying to download and update the unit over several days. The Day/night display auto change over feature, which is extremely important on long rides from day to night, DID NOT WORK AT ALL. I had to wait until I could stop to manually change the screen over. (The brightness of the day time display is very distracting while driving at night.) This feature did not work on either unit, so I have to believe that it was a programing flaw and not just one unit. The BLUE TOOTH feature did not work, period. I tryed everything. It would sinc for about 5 seconds, and then loose it. I tried it on three different makes of cell phone, to see if it was a problem with the phone. But no, it is the units. Also, I understand that if it did work, you needed to resinc and program each time you got back in the car.
So in conclusion, I am now using the Magellan 1475T. I compared this unit side by side for a week against the Garmin 1490T. The Garmin was $120 more than the Magellan and had Blue Tooth that worked excellently, but the real test was routing. On known routes I regularly travel, the Magellan agreed with my normal routing and quickly adjusted when I disagreed with it, where as the Garmin took a long time to reroute and also tried to send me on some really out of the way routes through intercity (dangerous) streets instead of direct highway routes. It also changed its routing right before a turn.(I traveled this route three times, and it did the same thing each time.) At one point, in the middle of a traffic jam, the Garmin simply rebooted itself for no reason leaving me high and dry when I needed to make a rerouting choice. The Magellan also gives you three rerouting options with how much time you will save by detouring around a traffic problem. I also found the brightness of the Garmin, while extremely easy to see with a very large font, distracting at night as compared to the softer view in the Magellan. As to volume, the Garmin was much louder, however, you cannot adjust the volume from the navigation screen and insists that you come to a complete stop before "reprograming". On the Magellan, the volume display and adjustment is on the navigation screen in clear view. Overall, I spent less than $80 on the Navigon, $150 on the Magellan and $270 on the Garmin on sale. Price, as you can see is not the only deciding factor.Lire l'avis complet...
Average GPS, Free live traffic is very nice.
This GPS has mostly standard features, with a few marginally useful extras such as "reality view", and one big benefit: lifetime free traffic reports. I live in southern California where this can really come in handy.
I have not had many gps to compare it to, but the downsides to me seems to be the slightly too quiet voice even on full volume, and slow response when typing in addresses.
Overall, it does its job, and has traffic info so it's good.Lire l'avis complet...
Very happy camper
This is my first GPS and just after one week using it I could not be happier!
Easy to learn and fun to use.I would recommend this GPS to my frineds.
It made driving even on familiar routes stress free.
Returning home the other night from the gym (a trip I done countless times)
the rain was coming down so hard that visibilty was very poor. Could not see 20 feet ahead of me....no problem I just let my GPS tell me what streets were coming up and when to turn. Letting me focus on the road in front of me.
I would never have realized what a great tool this thing is.Lire l'avis complet...
navigon 5100 gps
Navigon has a slick design and is more attractive than other similar GPS in the market. The navigon site states that the 5100 features Puerto Rico Maps and traffic information, but the traffic information would not work here. I tested my Navigon 5100 and had it running simultaneously with my Tom Tom, and Tom Tom performed better providing me the fastest route via highway, while Navigon choose an alternative route which has multiple traffic lights and was not as fast. The most important feature for me was that Navigon states that their GPS shows the road on 3D view and in the advertisement it show the street signs just as you see them in real life, but I am yet to see the street shown other than a bunch of line and and arrow flat or floating in the map, the difference between 2D and 3D is bearly noticeable. I was terribly dissapointed. I find that The Navigon 5100 has nothing over my one year old Tom Tom.Lire l'avis complet...
Navigon 5100 gps new
Great little gps. Small and smooth so can easily be carried around. Clear and easy to understand spoken street names. All the features of high end models with 1/2 the price. Touch screen is easy to read and navigate. Simple straight forward on screen menues. So easy even my 8 year old can program it. Put in any adress and it will take you to the front door with 500 foot warnings all the way. Comes with everthing, Even SD card and carrying pouch. Also covered by Square Trade Warrenty, which I recomend!
Has and external antena that is a little awkward. Takes about 10 seconds of holding the button to turn on and off, I feel that is a little slow. Battery life is little short, but stays plunged in nearly all the time anyway. Cant use it with windows 7 yet,claim they are working on guess I wait and see.
Overall great little gps package! About a 8.5 out of 10. I shopped around this is a really great value for the money.Lire l'avis complet...
It's has a lot of features but!
I had use a Garmin GPS like 3 year old and compare to Navigon 5100 this Navigon has a lot of nice features and traffic onfo that's very cool but the only thing so far I didn't like is that the volume with all the noise from your car you can't hear it very good, I got the volume all the way to louder and still, I had to turn off the radio to hear it and I got a hearing test recently and my hearing is perfect imagine people with hearing problem can't get this unit. Other than that the unit works good.Lire l'avis complet...
Good GPS
On this device the bluetooth seems to forget how to connect with my cell phone. I have had numerous bugs with this feature. The menu is not as intuitive as you might expect and I have had some trouble connecting with the Navigon server. However, this is a good product. It provides excellent directions and re-routing is fast and accurate. The traffic feature has proved to be more useful than anticipated, plus it's free.Lire l'avis complet...