Navigon 5100 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator

Navigon 5100 

3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator

Navigon 5100 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator overview :

The Navigon 5100 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with free lifetime traffic, Zagat Ratings, 3-D images of highway interchanges, Lane Assist, and text-to-speech, the Navigon 5100 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator 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 Navigon 5100 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator 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 Navigon 5100 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator packs in a lot of useful features into its sleek frame.

-  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.

Free Lifetime Traffic

The Navigon 5100 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator 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 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator and works out of the box.

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

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.

Navigon 5100 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator detail :

-  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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Navigon 7100 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator

Navigon 7100 

4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator

Navigon 7100 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator overview :

Packed with Features

The Navigon 7100 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator, When you stop ogling the outside and really start using the Navigon 7100 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator  what you notice is that Navigon has decided to avoid media support and instead has focused on navigation-based features. This means the Navigon 7100 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator is packed, offering an array of features that are, at the time of this writing, unmatched at this price point. It provides you with turn-by-turn directions, including actual road names via text-to-speech. It includes built-in Bluetooth technology that enables hands-free mobile phone integration, which not only increases driver safety, but is fast becoming a necessity as states pass laws against talking on a cell phone hand set while driving. It warns you when you are exceeding the speed limit. It offers 2D and 3D map views with incredibly precise road visualizations (more on that below). Its Navteq data contains millions Points of Interest (POIs) such as restaurants, hotels, golf courses, gas stations, banks, etc.

Reality View and Lane Assistant

The Navigon 7100 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator has two features that are a great help in negotiating unfamiliar or complicated road systems. Lane Assistant recommends the best lane for you to be in relative to the proposed route, so you won't find yourself trying to move over three lanes when the freeway splits.

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.

Free Traffic for Life

This is a biggie. The Navigon 7100 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator comes is the first GPS device to offer subscription-free, real-time traffic information via the integrated traffic receiver with no additional fees or setup for the life of the product. Be advised on traffic flow and incidents, as well as the best alternate routes. The traffic info starts working as soon as you get the Navigon 7100 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator out of the box. 

Zagat Ratings and Branded Icons for POIs

All of Navigon's gps navigators offer Zagat ratings and reviews for their POIs, so while this device may not get you a beer, it can tell you where to find the best one. Branded icons displayed on your map make it easier to navigate to a familiar location of your choice.

Superior Software and Hardware

The features and functions of the Navigon 7100 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator 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 4.3-inch, full-color touch-screen display with an easy-to-read 16:9 aspect ratio for an exceptional view of the road. The Navigon 7100 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator 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 piano black housing that weighs only seven ounces, and measures just 5.1 x 3.5 x 0.9 inches (W x H x D). The Navigon 7100 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator 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 7100 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator 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 Navigon 7100 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator not only uses SD cards, but also comes with a 2 GB SD card in the package.

Navigon 7100 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator detail :

-  Precise turn-by-turn directions, including spoken road names via text-to-speech

-  Lane assistant recommends the best lane for you to be in relative to the proposed route

-  Photo-realistic 3D images of junctions, complete with actual sign text and exit ramp guidance

-  Free real-time traffic information via the integrated traffic receiver

-  High-contrast, wide-format 4.3-inch, full-color touch-screen display; unit measures 5.1 x 3.5 x

   0.9 inches (W x H x D)

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