Navigon 2100 max 4 3 Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Text to Speech Lifetime Traffic and 2 Years of FreshMaps Special Bundle

March 20, 2009 by DigiBliss

Manufacturer’s Description–May 3, 2008
This special bundle includes traffic (for the lifetime of the device) and FreshMaps. 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. Spoken driving direction in real street names via text-to-speech capability let you keep your eyes on the road. Exclusive Reality View provides extra 3D guidance when you need it most. Lane Assistant alerts you to oncoming lane changes. DirectHelp helps you find emergency and roadside services—and helps them find you. Includes NAVIGON FreshMaps for up to 8 regular, trusted map updates over two years. Other accessories include ZAGAT® Ratings and Reviews.

Navigon has long been a major provider of navigation software to automotive manufacturers for in-dash gps navigation devices, but only last year did they introduce portable navigation devices under their own name (learn more about Navigon). What they offer up, however, demonstrates immediately that this is a company that knows navigation inside and out. Navigon focuses features that directly empower navigation and on sleek form factors.

Key Features

Reality View: 3D images of highway interchanges with actual road sign text so you’ll never miss your exit again. (Learn more)
Lane Assistant:. Icons alert you to the optimal lane to be in.(Learn more)
Widescreen: See the big picture with a stunning, easy-to-read, 4.3-inch widescreen format.
Spoken Directions with Text-to-Speech: keep your eyes on the road with spoken turn-by-turn directions and real street names.
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

Navigon offers some unique services that are easy to add to your Navigator with a simple activation code.

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 (included free on the 5100 and 7100 models).

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Superior 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.

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

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 (Requires Purchase of Activation Code)

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 2100 max GPS Navigator
SD card preloaded with software and maps of the continental US
Rechargeable 1150 mAH lithium ion battery (rated for up to 4.5 hours)
Car Charger
Car Mount
Quickstart Guide
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.

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.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars I LOVE my Navigon
I love my Navigon. My friends all have the Tom Tom but I wanted something a bit more - but without too many bells and whistles. I just wanted to get where I needed to be without going broke.

It is extremely easy to use-the maps are amazingly accurate-and the screen size is wonderful. I use it daily!!!

I did a decent amount of research before making my decision and I asked people for their advice that own a GPS. Surprisingly, the Tom Tom owners loved their product - that is, until they saw my Navigon and they realized what they were missing. My Navigon totally trumps their Tom Toms.

Would I recommend this product? You bet I would.

5 Stars great navigon
this is a great product. just becareful on country roads it tends to stick to main roads so this may be a longer route in some cases. but overall i love it!!!!!

4 Stars My wife loves it
Gave one each to my wife and daughter for Christmas. The wife says its the greatest - knows left from right, etc.

And she is now free to roam the country.

4 Stars Great value
Very easy to use. Great value with traffic feature. I do wish you could manually type in Point of Interest. The device catagorizes Points of Interest which makes you have to work within those confines. I also have a Garmin Nuvi which allows me to just type in the name of the place that I’m looking for. It then gives me all of the locations of that place that are near my current location starting with the closest. Otherwise, it’s a very intuitive device.

3 Stars Sorry I had to return it!
This was my first GPS. Liked the look, the weight, the graphics, the voice, the price was good, and it was from my favorite source, Amazon. I should have seen that something was wrong, with the unit. First I would type in address and name, it would give me the same name and a different address?. First I thought, “must be me”, it didn’t do this with every entry. But was a real pain to delete an item, took 3 steps and 3 screens. The next problem was the “Take me home ” feature, It seem to want to enter a different address. Finally it accepted the address, or so I thought, I listed about 10 destinations in Calif. and Nevada. We went to the River Palm in Laughlin, NV, every thing went fine till we were 2 or 3 miles from the hotel, my lady saids “Why is it taking this route?” , “I don’t know? never been here before”, my lady who had been before, told me this is the long way in. Well long story short we got there with about 15 minutes of extra driving. Now it’s time to leave, I touch screen the “Take me home” feature. About 1/2 hour later it seems were headed to las Vegas, Turn the car around, and GPS is asking me to make a U turn at the next exit. stop, turn the unit off, wait couple minutes, turn it back on, but the “take me home ” feature doesn’t show the destination it is using, I have to enter the home address. Four days later I give it a second chance. But it has it’s own ideas how to get to where I want. I don’t follow it’s instruction, it corrects itself about 15 minutes later, all seems well, till we get to our location, then it wants to go to a different address, then the one I entered. That is why I return the unit for a refund. I see reviews that say how great this GPS is, maybe I got one that was assembled on New Years eve.

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