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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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 lifteime traffic, Zagat Ratings, 3D 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.





Spotlight customer reviews:

Customer Rating: Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5
Summary: The best gps i have used so far
Comment: I paid over $1000 on a megallan gps that did not tell you the street name to turn down it was slow to get a gps signal , recalulations were
beyond slow and it did not have traffic alerts. I paid a faction of that price for this unit and its amazing. Turn it on and with in seconds it has a signal . It can tell if you did not make a turn in a split second and recalulates the new route before you even realize it . It tells you what street to turn down so you dont have to wonder was that the right street to turn on , and it has traffic alerts . I love this unit. I even purchased one for my spouse and one for my sister.

Customer Rating: Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5
Summary: POOR INSTRUCTIONS
Comment: i LIKE THIS PRODUCT VERY MUCH. MY ONLY COMPLAINT IS THAT THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING IT ARE VAGUE, ONCE YOU FIGURE IT OUT IT'S PRETTY EASY TO USE, BUT MORE DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS FOR SETTING IT UP WOULD HAVE HELPED A LOT

Customer Rating: Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5
Summary: I purchased it for the mount! Nice unit!
Comment: Just kidding I got it for the navigation capabilities; however, the windshield mount looks like it was modeled after the alien spacecraft from the blockbuster War of the Worlds movie- so cool!

I've been a GPS user since 2000 when I first rented a car with a GPS system. Since then I've used various GPS software and hardware on Window CE devices and most recently on an AT&T 8525 PDA phone. I switched to a dedicated GPS since trying to run GPS navigation software on a phone gets complicated when calls start coming in.

Quality- Built well, thin, probably couldn't hold up to drops or abuse but overall it's a nice unit. Did I mention the mount? Absolutely beautiful design/concept. It securely holds the 5100 very well

GPS Reception- Folks have complained that this unit takes a long time to acquire satellites. I haven't experienced this. Typically time to acquire 5 to 7 satellites is approx 30 seconds to 1:30. Please in mind that acquiring satellites can be hampered by building (sky scrapers), cloudy days, positioning of the unit on the window (i.e. GPS units need clear visibility of the sky to receive good reception), heavy rain/snow and time of day/rotation of the earth. Overall no complaints; it performs very well.

Interface- For me the interface was very close to one version of software I had a while back on a Windows CE PDA. It does take time to learn the interface so don't think of this as an ATM or self-checkout lane at the store. Read the manual. Overall it works and I can find POIs or enter in addresses with ease. Doesn't seem sluggish to me. Only downfall is that I cannot sync my outlook contacts to it. Several settings are available in this unit for customization.

Screen- A tad bit washed out but not bad. You can still see the POIs, streets, etc. when driving. For the cost it's reasonable. You can adjust the screen brightness. There is a night time mode.

Navigation- The "Optimal" routing setting works best for me. It calculates routes driver would typically take. I've tested this and it works very well. Re-calculating routes works very quickly for me. Calculating a long drive, such as from Portland, OR to Dallas, TX does take some time to calculate but given the distance covered, I'm happy it can do it!

Text to Speech/Volume- The voice quality is good. A female's voice is used. She prompts me well in advance of the street name and direction. The volume when maxxed out is adequate but it's not going to over power your car radio or beat the howling wind @ 55 mph. Typically when I'm going some place I don't know I roll the windows up and turn down the radio. I pay attention.

Versatility- being able to swap between cars is ideal.

Traffic Reception- Stellar! This unit prompts me with traffic condition warnings. There is no subscription for this service as it taps into the local radio stations that broadcast this service.

I was really concerned about the negative reviews on this unit, but overall I'm satisfied and my friends consider me the "return king." Looking forward to many drives and not getting lost.

Cheers,
Brian

Customer Rating: Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5
Summary: Navigon 5100
Comment: It is as advertized. Biggest plus--the web site is a big plus to help assist in understanding how it works--also got a FREE map update. Biggest negative--it takes about 2 minutes to sync up with the GPS satellites when first turning it on. Looking forward to using it on some long trips coming up.

Customer Rating: Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5
Summary: Fabulous GPS for the price!
Comment: I love this GPS! It is simple to use; the commands are clear and simple to follow. It is able to redircet you, if you take a wrong turn, in seconds. I love the lifetime traffic updates, they are quick and accurate!


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