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Navigon 2100 max 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Text-to-Speech |
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Amazon Sales Rank: 3554
Publisher: Navigon
Type: Electronics
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Ultra-slim and with a stunning 4.3-inch touchscreen display, the NAVIGON 2100 Max earns its name with a long list of advanced features. Exclusive Reality View provides extra 3D guidance when you need it most at complex interchanges, exits and entryways. Spoken driving directions and street names let you keep your eyes on the road. Lane Assistant alerts you to oncoming lane changes. DirectHelp helps you find emergency and roadside servicesand helps them find you. Navigon also let's you seamlessly purchase and activate a number of optional services as accessories that can save you time and money. FreshMaps gives you up to 12 regular, trusted map updates for three years. Lifetime Traffic gives you traffic flow and incident information and alternate route suggestion for the life of your unit. ZAGAT Ratings and Reviews Service gives you over 21,000 ZAGAT ratings and reviews covering more than 70 cities in the U.S. and Canada.
Average Rating: 
Review: 2008-11-29
Decent GPS but Suction Cup base is USELESS
The GPS works good. I haven't had to use the traffic yet so I can't comment on that. The suction cup base is useless if you want to attach it to the disk onto your dash. (If you use the windshield, you'll be fine) I won't stick. Or more exactly it won't stay stuck. Within a minute or two it will work loose and just stand there. Until you touch it, then it falls over. Or better yet, you take a turn and it rolls off of the dash. I cursed and yelled at it and my wife and friend both tried it to. They couldn't get it to work either. Even had Navigon send me a new base. There tech service was great and they shipped it fast. BUT the new one didn't work either. I had to take my old Magellan base and jiffy rig it so it would only the unit. The thing now won't come off unless you want it to.
Review: 2008-11-17
Navigon 2100 max review
To keep it short and sweet, the 2100 max unit was returned. I bought it for my spouse who is not technically inclined. I feel that she was a good test subject for this review, which wasn't my intent as I only wanted her to have an easy to use personal navigation device (PND). The Navigon 2100 max has many great features for the price, but also too many issues and wasn't worth the frustration. Using it made me feel like I was beta testing a development product. Maybe a firmware update will fix the problems. I need a PND with a better user interface (UI), more Points of Interest (POI) and reliability. Each person is different, so I recommend that you always get a PND from a store with a good return policy.
Pros:
- 4.3" touch screen.
- Free life-time traffic updates, but must activate the service online
- Traffic information antenna built into the auto charging cable, so not external antenna required (also a downside).
- Spoken street names via text-to-speech.
- Lane Assist is a view that helps with choosing which lane to be in for the upcoming intersection.
- Reality View is a more realistic view of the upcoming road changes.
- Route planning can add multiple stops to your route.
- Predictive Text helps to speed up typing with text that guides you, but this had a downside.
- Optional Fresh Maps is a paid for service ($80.00US) that provides quarterly map updates for 3 years.
Cons:
- Documentation online, no CD in the box. Remember this when you're on the road and need help with the device.
- Crashed the first time it was turned on that required going online for the documentation to learn how to properly reset the device.
- The user interface is less than intuitive. You will need to learn the "navigon" way of UI navigation. This can be frustrating. Oh, and with no printed documentation to reference, well you get the idea.
- The UI icons, text and buttons are very small and therefore difficult to see.
- Points of Interest database is pathetic and no way to update.
- Traffic information is not incorporated into a route, you could still be routed through a closed road or exit, which happened to me.
- Traffic alerts kept appearing for problems not on the route.
- Traffic service didn't work outside of the metro areas.
- Route planning feature doesn't optimize the route path between route points.
- You must use Navigon's USB cable or you will get a "Sync" screen on the device. Better get a spare from Navigon.
- The battery life is dismal, my unit constantly displayed the low charge warning after only 30 minutes, and then would die shortly thereafter.
- Satellite acquisition indoors was miserable.
- Crappy speaker gets more distorted the louder it gets, and you need to turn it up because the volume is very low by default.
- Predictive Text would not let me enter a street number or name if it wasn't in the device database, which happened on several occasions. My spouse just gave up when the streets or addresses couldn't be entered.
- After a week the device started to frequently lock up, requiring a reset.
Overall I feel that Navigon is on the right track with it's feature list and pricing. I may have got a bad unit, but with the number of issues it wasn't worth the frustration. I will pay a little more for something that just works. When I have to fight with the technology, it's going back.
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Amazon List Price: $299.99
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