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Navigon 5100 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Text-to-Speech and Lifetime Traffic

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: $141.45
You Save: $357.55 (72%)

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars 115 reviews
Sales Rank: 203

Color: Chrome
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
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

Features:
  • Superbly accurate, door-to-door directions with pre-installed maps of U.S. and Canada.
  • Speaks street names via Text-to-Speech
  • Subscription free liftetime traffic out of the box
  • Lane Assistant & Reality View features that simplify your drive
  • Zagat ratings and reviews

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Editorial Reviews:

Manufacturer's Description--September 15, 2007
With free lifetime traffic, Zagat Ratings, 3-D images of highway interchanges, Lane Assist, and text-to-speech, the Navigon 5100 is rich in features that directly empower navigation. Plus, it looks great on your dashboard. It’s slim ? less than an inch thick ? and sports an easy-to-read 3.5" touch screen wrapped in an elegant chrome frame.

The 5100 is the smaller sibling to Navigon's flagship 7100. The 5100 has a 3.5-inch screen, while the 7100 has a 4.3-inch widescreen. The 7100 also adds bluetooth-capability for hands-free mobile phone integration, so if you want that feature, do check out the 7100. Otherwise, the 5100 packs in a lot of useful features into its sleek frame.

Key Features

  • Lifetime Traffic gives you traffic flow and incident information and alternate route suggestion for the life of your unit (Learn more)
  • ZAGAT Ratings and Reviews gives you over 21,000 ratings and reviews for more than 70 cities in the U.S. and Canada (Learn more)
  • Reality View: 3D images of highway interchanges with actual road sign text so you’ll never miss your exit again (Learn more)
  • Spoken Directions with Text-to-Speech: keep your eyes on the road with spoken turn-by-turn directions and real street names.
  • Lane Assistant:. Icons alert you to the optimal lane to be in (Learn more)
  • Landscape and Portrait Views: landscape gives you a widescreen view of the road ahead; portrait looks and feels like a cell phone
  • Points Of Interest: Reach gas stations, hotels, restaurants, transportation hubs, and more with millions of points of interest that will help you find your way.
  • Branded icons: places are so easy to find that everywhere will feel like home.
  • DirectHelp: At-a-glance information helps you find emergency and roadside services?and helps them find you. Just push a button and get instant directions and phone numbers to the nearest hospitals, police stations, roadside assistance companies and pharmacies.

Easy Add-Ons

  • FreshMaps gives you up to 12 regular, trusted map updates for three years with a simple activation code.

Which Navigon is Right for You?

  • Click here to see a chart comparing features on the entire family of Navigon portable GPS navigators
  • Learn more about Navigon

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Software and Hardware

The features and functions of the Navigon's portable GPS navigators are controlled via intuitive, easy-to-use animated menus that use predictive text input to quickly and easily select your city, state and address.

Maps and menus appear on elegant, high-contrast, full-color touch-screen displays.

Navigon portable GPS navigators run on a powerful Samsung 400 MHz processor, a fully integrated SiRF Star III GPS chip, 64 MBs of both RAM and ROM built in, and a rechargeable 1,200 mAh lithium ion battery that is rated for 4.5 hours of continuous use.

All this is housed in an ultra-thin, sleek housing.


Free Lifetime Traffic

traffic

The NAVIGON 5100 includes the industry's only subscription-free Lifetime Traffic service. Dynamic, real-time traffic feeds show you where traffic is slow and suggests alternate routes. Save time and stress. Real-Time Traffic is free for the lifetime of your NAVIGON 5100 and works out of the box.


Reality View

reality view
Reality View? provides 3D images and actual road sign text when approaching complex interchanges ? so you’ll never miss your exit again.


Lane Assist

lane assist
No more wondering what lane you need to be in to stay on course. Your NAVIGON will guide you with simple to follow lane guidance with arrows so you can make your turn and stay on track.


Zagat Ratings

lane assist

Now you can enjoy the world's most comprehensive restaurant and entertainment guide ? right on your NAVIGON GPS device. With ZAGAT's trusted Ratings and Reviews, you will know exactly where to stay and play during your travels and, with NAVIGON's guidance you will know exactly how to get there. The guide includes over 21,000 entries covering a variety of categories, including restaurants, hotels, golf courses, nightclubs and attractions in over 70 cities in the U.S. and Canada.

ZAGAT SURVEY Ratings and Reviews is a standard feature on both the 7100 and 5100 models. An additional accessory purchase is required to activate the service on the 2100 model.


What's in the Box

  • NAVIGON 5100 GPS Navigator
  • SD card preloaded with software and maps of US, Canada and Puerto Rico
  • Rechargeable 1150 mAH lithium ion battery (rated for up to 4.5 hours)
  • Integrated traffic receiver with free Lifetime Traffic updates
  • Car Charger
  • Car Mount
  • Quickstart Guide and User Manual (on CD)
  • Limited Warranty

Note: All Navigon GPS Navigators run on the Microsoft Windows CD Net 5.0 operating system. A PC is required to use additional map data, and in such cases users require Windows 2000, ME, XP or higher, as well as a CD ROM drive and a USB port. An SD/MMC card reader is recommended as the 7100 not only uses SD cards, but also comes with a 2 GB SD card in the package.


The Navigon Family of Portable Navigators


Screen Size (diagonally)
Maps
Reality View Real Street Names
Lane Assistant Bluetooth POIs Lifetime Traffic
Data Service
Zagat Ratings
FreshMaps 3-Year
Map Update Service
2100
3.5 inches
continental U.S.
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1.3 million
Requires Activation Requires Activation Requires Activation
2120
3.5 inches U.S and Canada
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1.3 million Requires Activation Requires Activation Requires Activation
2100 Max
4.3 inches
continental U.S. check check

1.3 million Requires Activation Requires Activation Requires Activation
5100
3.5 inches
U.S and Canada check check check
millions
Included Included
Requires Activation
7100 4.3 inches
U.S and Canada check check check check millions
Included Included
Requires Activation

NAVIGON Real-Time Traffic City Listing

USA

  • Albany, NY
  • Albuquerque, NM
  • Allentown, PA
  • Atlanta, GA
  • Austin, TX
  • Baltimore, MD
  • Baton Rouge, LA
  • Birmingham, AL
  • Boston, MA
  • Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC
  • Chicago, IL
  • Cincinnati, OH
  • Cleveland, OH
  • Colorado Springs, CO
  • Columbia, SC
  • Columbus, OH
  • Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX
  • Denver-Boulder, CO
  • Des Moines, IA
  • Detroit, MI
  • Ft. Meyers, FL
  • Ft. Pierce, FL
  • Greensboro-Winston Salem-High Point, NC
  • Greenville, SC
  • Harrisburg, PA
  • Hartford-New Britain-Middletown, CT
  • Houston-Galveston, TX
  • Huntsville, AL
  • Indianapolis, IN
  • Jacksonville, FL
  • Kansas City, MO
  • Las Vegas, NV
  • Lexington, KY
  • Los Angeles, CA
  • Louisville, KY
  • Manchester, NH
  • Madison, WI
  • Memphis, TN
  • Miami-Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood, FL
  • Middlesex-Somerset-Union, NJ
  • Milwaukee-Racine, WI
  • Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
  • Nashville, TN
  • Nassau-Suffolk, NY
  • New Orleans, LA
  • New York, NY
  • Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News, VA
  • Omaha, NE
  • Orlando, FL
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • Phoenix, AZ
  • Pittsburgh, PA
  • Portland, OR
  • Portsmouth, NH
  • Providence-Warwick-Pawtucket, RI
  • Raleigh-Durham, NC
  • Richmond, VA
  • Riverside-San Bernardino, CA
  • Rochester, NY
  • Sacramento, CA
  • Salt Lake City-Ogden-Provo, UT
  • San Antonio, TX
  • San Diego, CA
  • San Francisco, CA
  • San Jose, CA
  • Sarasota, FL
  • Seattle-Tacoma, WA
  • Springfield, MA
  • St. Louis, MO
  • Syracuse, NY
  • Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
  • Toledo, OH
  • Tucson, AZ
  • Tulsa, OK
  • Washington, DC
  • West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, FL
  • Worcester, MA

Canada

  • Toronto, ON
  • Montreal, QC
  • Ottawa, ON


About Navigon

NAVIGON has been a leader of GPS navigation since 1991, and has a long history of industry innovations. NAVIGON created the world's first dynamic personal GPS product in 1996, launched the industry's first navigation software for the Pocket PC in 2000, and unveiled the first Traffic Message Channel-based (TMC) avoidance feature on mobile navigation product in 2002.

NAVIGON has helped revolutionize how consumers get from place to place with software products for practically any navigation-ready hardware. Personal navigation devices (PND), smartphones, and in-dash navigation systems directed by NAVIGON's award-winning MobileNavigator(MN) software delivers reliable information on millions of destinations in an intuitive, easy to use format. NAVIGON is a valued partner to the automotive industry, and in 2006 strengthened its category competency by acquiring NAVTEQ's navigation software business.

NAVIGON is a privately-held software company based in Hamburg, Germany, with NAVIGON USA headquarters in Chicago, IL.





Customer Reviews:   Read 10 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars Excellent Navigation System   October 9, 2008
Syed A. Jehangir (usa)
I am fully satisfied with the product.
Very nice I could not have ask any better than this one.
I had problem using it the first time(Touch Screen) but after collaboration and setting the basics it works like a champ!



1 out of 5 stars No Wonder They Dropped The Price   September 25, 2008
R. Hebron (Reno, NV United States)
I thought I was upgrading from the Tom Tom Navigator 6 on my Palm Treo when I bought the Navigon 5100. Boy was I wrong.

I entered a test route for the 5100 to take me from my home in Reno, Nevada to Carson City (Only 20 miles south).

First, it was amazingly slow in calculating the route . . . more than a minute slower than the Tom Tom.

Second, the routing was wrong. When it got to the US 395 (The highway between Reno and Carson City), the GPS routes me to go north for a mile, exit, then loop around before directing me back south on highway 395.

I'm returning the 5100 tomorrow.



2 out of 5 stars At least the price was low...   September 23, 2008
thomasx11
Purchased the Navigon 5100 a couple of days back for $149.99. Not bad. It had free lifetime traffic which I was interested in.

The Good: Didn't get to see much good, though the menus seemed fairly intuitive....
1. Pretty fast sat acquisition (despite reviews to the contrary). Under a minute easily.

The Bad:
1. Had to hold down the On button for somewhere between 11-13 seconds to get it to power on. About the same to turn it off.
2. First time out... almost. Put mount on windshield. Put 5100 on mount. Mount breaks. I go Grrrrr and say "well that's that."

The Very Bad:
1. The touch screen was terribly unresponsive. Terribly. Very Very Frustrating.

I was told that it must have been the unit. Regardless, I returned it and will probably just get another Garmin. Good luck.



3 out of 5 stars Rich feature set crippled by major shortcomings   September 10, 2008
F. Widjaya (Lancaster, PA, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I currently own a MIO that I purchased on Black Friday 06 and planning to upgrade. The Mio is a competent little unit, but I was hoping to get a unit with text-to-speech, newer maps, updated POIs, better interface, and better routing. Here comes Navigon 5100.. at $160 it came with Text To Speech, Lane Assist, 3d reality view, Zagat ratings, and Free TMC! Could it be the magical upgrade I was looking for?

After 1 day owning the unit and using it to drive around, this item is going back to Amazon. And here's why.

1. First thing I notice was the HUGE windshield mount that looks cool, but it's a major pain to use. Rotating the device around was very awkward and I was afraid that it would snap off. Another annoyance: On highways the mount just shakes road vibrations! My Mio didn't do that.

2. You must HOLD the button for 10 seconds for startup and shut-down. In addition, you must click OK to the EULA agreement that you wont use this unit while driving ( you know what I mean ) etc etc. This makes the unit impractical for quick turn-on and go like my Mio does.

3. The keyboards (or any other buttons, for that matter) are TINY. I have relatively small hands and I'm having problems typing my destinations.

4. The UI are clunky. I was interested because I heard Navigon has a very pretty UI, but I'm disappointed. The 'Flash' menus are nothing to be excited about. The maps on most streets are plain white and hard to read.

5. It takes many taps to do the simple things I can do right away on my Mio. For example I can simply move the maps around with Mio while I was in 'navigation mode.' With this Navigon, I need to click on the little button on the bottom right which pops up a menu, and select the button for 'move your fingers around to scroll map' view.

6. There's a 'direct access' buttons for specific types of POI (which allow you to quickly see surrounding POIs with 1 tap) which is very nice, but then it directly routes me to the POI I selected ( I cant just view the phone number etc - to do that I have to do it through the regular POI screen)

6. The fonts are very small. I'm talking TINY small.

7. And here's the killer for me: The speaker is very soft. The unit when cranked all the way up is barely audible on highways, and the sound is already cracking. My Mio is way louder.

So those are the reasons the unit is going back. It's too bad - I really wanted the unit to be the upgrade I had wanted. Just to wrap this review up on a good note, the positives (for me ) are:

1. The unit looks very pretty.
2. Navigation is pretty good and accurate.
3. Voice guidance (when you can hear it!) spells out street names pretty accurately.
4. It says which side of the road your destination is (this is very neat)
5. It can display speed limit, your speed, altitude, etc. Lots of information.
6. There's dedicated 'direct access' button which has its limitations, is a nice feature.
7. Route recalculation was pretty fast.

There you go. I hope this review serves as a caveat emptor - Keep in mind that you DO get a host of features for a very low price, but it has its (for me, major) shortcomings. What that shortcomings amount for you is for you to decide.



1 out of 5 stars Downgrading origional review from when I first bought this.   September 9, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I've removed my original two star review from when I bought this. After 9 months of use I'm giving this a one star review. I'd give it less if I could.

This GPS is so painful to use it sits gathering dust in my glovebox.

Likes:
Free Traffic.
Attractive looking.

Dislikes:
1. User interface is insanely convoluted.
2. Touch screen requires lots of pressure to work, very frustrating.
3. The buttons on the user interface are stupidly small, combined with a not so sensitive touch screen its barely usable.
4. Boot up time is stupidly long, 10 seconds of which you have to HOLD the power button. Guys, how about a simple on off switch switch!
5. Unit is slow to calculate and respond to user input.
6. Scrolling around maps is difficult at best. Nearly impossible to use for just mapping.
7. Traffic is not displayed in a useful method. Requires multiple button clicks while driving for traffic avoidance.

I could go on with more dislikes, but I get angry just thinking about the frustrations of using this. Save your money and avoid this unit.




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