Navigon 2100 Review

The Navigon 2100 GPS is slim, stylish, easy to use, and has features no other GPS navigator has. Navigon 2100 GPS have a brilliant touchscreen display, simple to maneuver menus and accurate coast-to-coast map coverage get you from point A to point B with confidence. Navigating the road ahead is even easier with spoken turn-by-turn directions including street names. Features like Reality View ensure that you’ll never miss your exit again by providing realistic 3D map view of complex intersections. With over one million points-of-interest pre-loaded, restaurants, hotels, gas stations, and more are easy to locate. Accessorize with NAVIGON Lifetime Traffic and ZAGAT Ratings and Review accessories. Includes pre-loaded continental U.S. maps.

The Navigon 2100 is the lowest-priced (and smallest) of Navigon’s line of portable GPS navigators. While it lacks some of the features of it’s bigger siblings, the 7100 and 5100, it packs solid navigation and some unique features into its diminutive frame.

The Navigon 2100 and 5100 have 3.5-inch screens, while the 7100 has a 4.3-inch widescreen. The big difference is that the 5100 and 7100 come with free lifetime traffic data, while with the Navigon 2100 you have to buy an activation code separately. The 5100 and 7100 have a feature called “Lane Assistant” that will suggest which lane you should be driving in, but that’s not such a big deal. Another important difference is that the 7100 also adds bluetooth-capability for hands-free mobile phone integration, which is really handy. If you want that feature, do check out the 7100. This chart may help as well.
Navigon decided not to try to add multimedia features like a photo viewer or MP3 player into its devices, but instead focused on navigation-based features. The Navigon 2100 GPS provides precise turn-by-turn directions, including spoken road names via text-to-speech

Reality view guides you with photo-realistic 3D images of junctions, complete with actual sign text and exit ramp guidance. This makes translating what the navigator is telling you to what you see on the road instantaneous.

Superior Software and Hardware
The features and functions of the Navigon 2100 GPS 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 its extra-large and elegant, high-contrast 3.5-inch, full-color touch-screen display. The 5100 includes 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 chrome housing that weighs only 6.3 ounces, and measures just 4.2 x 3.3 x 0.9 inches (W x H x D). The Navigon 5200 even comes pre-loaded with complete maps of the U.S. and Canada, providing you with superbly accurate, seamless door-to-door directions wherever your vehicular travels might take you.

Note that the Navigon 2100 GPS runs 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.

Navigon 2100 GPS User Said:

I had bought Navigon 7100 first and picked up the Navigon 2100 GPS when it came with the life time free traffic information as a promotion. For a couple of weeks, I debated on which one to keep. In the end I ended up keeping Navigon 2100 and returned the 7100 model. Here are my thoughts/comparisons on both models. Depending on the weightage you assign for each of those criteria, your decision may differ (both are great models).

I primarily decided to keep the Navigon 2100 GPS considering three factors
1) size
2) price
3) life time traffic for free as a promotion with Navigon 2100.

Navigon 2100 is smaller and hence easy to carry with you when you get out of the car (something that I would do if I leave the vehicle in a public area — say shopping mall). I did not feel that it has less real estate for navigation purposes when compared to 7100 that has a 4.3″ screen (It does look nicer to have a bigger screen, but functionality is not lost or crippled with the smaller size).

Other comparisons:
1. Navigon 2100 doesn’t have Bluetooth (I didn’t like that functionality in 7100 anyways)
2. Navigon 2100 seems to be a lot slower in picking up the satellite on startup. It doesn’t pick up the satellite when inside my house, whereas 7100 sitting next to it does pick it.
3. Navigon 2100 only has US map for 48 states (no Canada). 7100 has all of North America (US 48 states + Canada + Hawaii)
4. Navigon 2100 GPS has fewer points of interest (may be helpful to have more once in a while) when compared to 7100
5. Keyboard response of Navigon 2100 is really slow to the point that it gets annoying. This goes on the big negatives column and is a problem with 7100 too, but to a lesser extent.
6. I really liked the stand for 7100. The stand for Navigon 2100 has a smaller reach, so the device will be farther from you when attached to the windshield.

I like the feature where it (both models) shows the road view on complex intersections.
In the end, the price is too high to keep 7100, especially since I got the life time free traffic information on the Navigon 2100 GPS for a cheaper price.

Summary:
I preferred a 3.5 inch flat model as opposed to 4.3 inch models for portability. Free lifetime traffic support was a key for me to pick Navigon brand. Design style was a bonus compared to Garmin (that I have used in the past). Directions computed by the device seems to be fine so far. Overall, a good stylish product with some cool features.

—– By Rajesh Nanoo

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