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Epicurus.com - 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
List Price: $499.00
Our Price: $144.51
Your Save: $ 354.49 ( 71% )
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Manufacturer: Navigon
Average Customer Rating: Average rating of 3.5/5Average rating of 3.5/5Average rating of 3.5/5Average rating of 3.5/5Average rating of 3.5/5

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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Navigon
Color: Chrome
Display Size: 3.5
EAN: 0898110001044
Feature: Superbly accurate, door-to-door directions with pre-installed maps of U.S. and Canada.
Includes Mp3 Player: 1
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Navigon
Manufacturer: Navigon
Model: 10000130
Native Resolution: 320 x 240
Publisher: Navigon
Special Features: 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
Studio: Navigon
Variation Description: Chrome

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:

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.
check check

1.3 million
Requires Activation Requires Activation Requires Activation
2120
3.5 inches U.S and Canada
check check

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.





Spotlight customer reviews:

Customer Rating: Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5
Summary: Very good but... then again but...
Comment: I like everything about this GPS. Ease of use, nice car mount, great features... but it takes almost like forever to boot it up and search for satellite signal. This also happens when you drive into a building and lose satellite connectivity (such as when you enter a parking building).

BUT WAIT. There's an undocumented solution (well, i don't know if it's undocumented because I never bothered to read the PDF manual). Instead of turning off your Navigon, you simply give the power button one quick tap. This shuts down the display and puts it in STANDBY mode (i think it gives the unit enough power so it does not have to boot up like it does when you first turn it ON). [Doesn't help big if you're like me an I park in a building when I come home everyday but at least it's still faster].

So I'd rate this unit high- great value for the price. :)



Customer Rating: Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5
Summary: Navigon 3.5 in. Portable GPS
Comment: This GPS has great 3-d visuals. The visuals are especially noteworthy when you approach exit ramps or need to be in a specific lane on a 5+ lane highway. The 3-d function almost looks like a live video picture of what's ahead. Programming for long trips has been improved but, Navigon still needs to do some tweaking in that area. However, it programs as easily as most of the other GPS devices out there. It is more pricey but, the 5100 comes with lifetime real time traffic alerts.

Customer Rating: Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5
Summary: Excellent Navigation System
Comment: 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!

Customer Rating: Average rating of 1/5Average rating of 1/5Average rating of 1/5Average rating of 1/5Average rating of 1/5
Summary: No Wonder They Dropped The Price
Comment: 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.

Customer Rating: Average rating of 2/5Average rating of 2/5Average rating of 2/5Average rating of 2/5Average rating of 2/5
Summary: At least the price was low...
Comment: 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.


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