 Navigon 2100 MAX ..is perfect! |
| Review Date: July 29, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Ken Darapheth, dfw |
| Best GPS unit I have ever bought! traveled for 8 years with bunch of junks like Garmin, tomtom. [...]. This unit work better then ever. Great product and great many features...high recommend! every product you will get pro and con. But by far this is the best. Oh! don't listen to the review up above. Navigon still support Maps update for North American and will continue to. They just stop selling their product here. but the maps continues. |
Does everything I expected.
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| Review Date: August 31, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Michael J. Wells, |
| This product does everything that I expected that it would. The maps are 2008 so once in a while it cant find a address but does very well taking me to specific zip codes. You can update to the 2009 maps which I am sure would resolve most issues of me not being able to find new destinations. I am very happy with this product, I love the re-route feature which re-routes me if a miss a turn. |
Great GPS with useful features
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| Review Date: September 12, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Mike S., Chicago IL |
Bought this GPS on the recommendation of a friend who has bought dozens of expensive GPSs for his cars and motorcycles, and uses this one in his car. He has had no qualms about buying a $[...] GPS! The reviews on Amazon helped the decision process.
I bought the refurbished model for under $[...], but at $[...] it would still be a good deal. For geeks out there, it's interesting that the factory refurbished model has a Windows Mobile COA cut off the original box, and thrown in the box with the refurbished unit.
The refurbished unit was packed as new, in a new box with a refurbished sticker on it. I couldn't tell the difference from new.
The small folded cheat sheet is pretty useless, but playing with the GPS for a few minutes got me used to it. It said to go to their web site for a complete manual, but I didn't bother.
The screen is plenty large and easy to see, the suction-cup windshield mount is great (needs assembly with stupid plastic screws than can strip if you're not careful), and the internal rechargeable batteries keep it from shutting off when you turn off the car (if your lighter socket also turns off). Car charger is included (car charger has a mini USB plug, and the box includes a USB cable to plug into your laptop for charging). It did nothing except charge when I plugged it into a PC.
The main thing that I bought it for is the SPEED ALERTS. It shows a speed limit sign when you are on highways (not on local streets), and if you go 10MPH over the limit (by default), it yells "CAUTION!" I used it on a trip, where I found speed limits going from 70 to 50 at random times. I never even saw the sign, but the GPS yelled at me (I'm not married, so this is as close as I'm going to get to having a wife yelling at me when I'm driving - girlfriends aren't stupid).
Since traffic tickets are a profit center (I guess a survival center?) for police departments these days, the cost of this GPS is probably less than one traffic ticket - that the police are trying to trick you into getting. If you stay below the speed limit, you don't need a radar detector (but I do have an Escort 9500ix that includes a GPS, which also yells at me if I come up to an intersection with a Red Light camera). I REALLY like the speed alerts on this GPS!
I have wondered why my $[...] Escort 9500ix radar detector with GPS didn't have the speed limit/alert feature. I guess I had to spend an extra $[...] on this GPS to get that in my car.
The GPS also shows which lane you should stay in on highways. Sometimes it's pretty confusing which lane goes where on a highway. The GPS did a nice gob of drawing a picture of the highway lanes, putting arrows in the lanes you can stay in when exiting, or often even when continuing on the same road.
I've used the Earthmate GPS on my laptop for many years, and the talking voice in it says keep left or right at odd times, and is sometimes pretty confusing. I like the way this Navigon does it much better.
Entry of addresses by the touch screen was tough with my finger, but using the smooth end of a Sharpie barrel (not the felt tip!) made it much easier. It took me a few tries to figure out how they wanted addresses put in, but once I figured out to put in the zip (or city/state), street and THEN the number, it was a breeze. You don't have to type the whole name of the street. Once you start the first few letters, it gives you choices to pick from. It had the two hotels I stayed at in its database of POI (Points of Interest).
The voice is very clear, but even though it runs on Widows Mobile, it doesn't use the familiar Microsoft voices for speech. It missed a lot of pronunciations, but since it shows the street names on the screen anyway, who cares? The voice had a neat feature where it was at a lower level at lower speeds, and at maximum volume at highway speeds (a clickable option) - which was pretty useful (a little distorted through the small speaker at max volume).
My friend said the last time he got updates from the Navigon site, it said this was the last update available. I don't know how that works when they say there are three years of updates.
The free traffic information doesn't work. I guess you have to log into the Navigon site to get it, which seems to be in a foreign country, and wants your email and personal information to even get into the site. I'm not putting personal information into their stinking foreign site.
The data was at least a year old on the thing when I got it refurbished in 09/09. Maybe new ones come with newer data? The free map updates and free traffic seems to be a scam, so I wouldn't count on it when buying this GPS. Even so, it's a good value with year old maps at $[...]. The speed limit database will eventually be useless if you don't update it?
My friend's main complaint with this GPS is that the screen isn't as colorful as some of his other GPSs. He's a programmer that has always done does dazzling UIs (since Windows 3.1), so it doesn't meet his standards. It's fine for me.
This GPS is a great value for under $[...], even if it can't be updated.
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I tried the rest and Finally found the best
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| Review Date: October 21, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Douglas Bright, Indiana |
| This is by far the best GPS on the market. Way better than TomTom, Garmin, Magellan, I had them all and , the best models. They do not touch this unit, nothing but, love for the Navigon |
LOVE IT! Bought it with LOW expectations ....
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| Review Date: December 14, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Mr. Robert G. Wilkes, |
| I've just read a bunch of user reviews for this product. I paid $89 REFURBISHED on a deal thru TigerDirect several months ago. It is our 2nd GPS unit - the Garmin I got for my wife is just as nice, but I paid about $100 more for it. I'm not happy to know that I can no longer get a charger for it if I ever need one and that there will be no map updates ... but for $89.00 I'm just happy that I got one that works nicely with a nice large screen, easy-to-hear turn-by-turn instructions and a nice 3D display. I just never had any high expectations for something I paid so little for which was, for me, a borderline purchase item (based upon my need for it, which is usually minimal). |
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