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Manufacturer's Description--September 15, 2007:
With free lifetime traffic, Zagat Ratings, 3-D 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. lt’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. 0therwise, 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:. lcons 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 0f lnterest: 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-0ns

• 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 lll GPS chip, 64 MBs of both RAM and R0M 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.

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Free Lifetime Traffic

The NAVlG0N 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 NAVlG0N 5100 and works out of the box.

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Reality View

Reality View™ provides 3D images and actual road sign text when approaching complex interchanges — so you’ll never miss your exit again.

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Lane Assist

No more wondering what lane you need to be in to stay on course. Your NAVlG0N will guide you with simple to follow lane guidance with arrows so you can make your turn and stay on track.

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Zagat Ratings

Now you can enjoy the world's most comprehensive restaurant and entertainment guide — right on your NAVlG0N GPS device. With ZAGAT's trusted Ratings and Reviews, you will know exactly where to stay and play during your travels and, with NAVlG0N'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.

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What's in the Box

• NAVlG0N 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)
• lntegrated 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 R0M 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.

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The Navigon Family of Portable Navigators

	Screen Size (diagonally)	Maps	Reality View	Real Street Names	Lane Assistant	Bluetooth	P0ls	Lifetime Traffic Data Service	Zagat Ratings	FreshMaps 3-Year Map Update Service
2100	3.5 inches	continental U.S.					1.3 million	Requires Activation	Requires Activation	Requires Activation
2120	3.5 inches	U.S and Canada					1.3 million	Requires Activation	Requires Activation	Requires Activation
2100 Max	4.3 inches	continental U.S.					1.3 million	Requires Activation	Requires Activation	Requires Activation
5100	3.5 inches	U.S and Canada					millions	lncluded	lncluded	Requires Activation
7100	4.3 inches	U.S and Canada					millions	lncluded	lncluded	Requires Activation

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NAVlG0N 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, lL Cincinnati, 0H Cleveland, 0H Colorado Springs, C0 Columbia, SC Columbus, 0H Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX Denver-Boulder, C0 Des Moines, lA Detroit, Ml 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 lndianapolis, lN Jacksonville, FL Kansas City, M0 Las Vegas, NV Lexington, KY Los Angeles, CA Louisville, KY Manchester, NH Madison, Wl Memphis, TN Miami-Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood, FL Middlesex-Somerset-Union, NJ Milwaukee-Racine, Wl Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN Nashville, TN Nassau-Suffolk, NY

New 0rleans, LA New York, NY Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News, VA 0maha, NE 0rlando, FL Philadelphia, PA Phoenix, AZ Pittsburgh, PA Portland, 0R Portsmouth, NH Providence-Warwick-Pawtucket, Rl Raleigh-Durham, NC Richmond, VA Riverside-San Bernardino, CA Rochester, NY Sacramento, CA Salt Lake City-0gden-Provo, UT San Antonio, TX San Diego, CA San Francisco, CA San Jose, CA Sarasota, FL

Seattle-Tacoma, WA Springfield, MA St. Louis, M0 Syracuse, NY Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL Toledo, 0H Tucson, AZ Tulsa, 0K Washington, DC West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, FL Worcester, MA Canada Toronto, 0N Montreal, QC 0ttawa, 0N

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About Navigon

NAVlG0N has been a leader of GPS navigation since 1991, and has a long history of industry innovations. NAVlG0N 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.

NAVlG0N 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 NAVlG0N's award-winning MobileNavigator(MN) software delivers reliable information on millions of destinations in an intuitive, easy to use format. NAVlG0N is a valued partner to the automotive industry, and in 2006 strengthened its category competency by acquiring NAVTEQ's navigation software business.

NAVlG0N is a privately-held software company based in Hamburg, Germany, with NAVlG0N USA headquarters in Chicago, lL.

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Testimonials

Average Buyer Rating:

Buyer's feedback: - * Poor LA Freeway Traffic Info, OK otherwise ...
I got this gps primarily for the live traffic coverage for driving in the Los Angeles area. Before buying it, I tried to ascertain whether or not it covered non-freeways, but was unable to. Well, I needed to upgrade, and the year-end price was decent, so I gave it a try.

The good: in areas where there are no traffic or mapping issues, it was a nice navigation info source while driving. One especially nice feature when routing is that when there is a turn, after it announces the upcoming turn, it prompts you to turn right before you should do so ("Turn right .... now"). That is handy when driving in unfamiliar territory and there are multiple choices. And after reading the manual, I found it mostly easy to use, once I got used to its idiosyncracies.

The bad:

- LA Traffic Coverage is freeway only, so when you are driving one of the essential routes that is not freeway (like the pacific coast highway), generally there is no traffic data. Where there have been trafffic incidents that hit the news, I have turned this on to see what it says. Generally nothing is reported unless it is very major, and then it has trouble getting the location right because it only seems to be able to give freeway locations. For example, when there was the Chatsworth train crash, it reported the nearby freeway closed, even though it was the affected surface streets which were closed. When there was a crash that closed part of Canyon Blvd, it reported that the PCH was closed nearby, which is very different (and it actually showed a traffic alert on the PCH, which it doesn't seem to normally do). NOTE: this is a fault of the traffic service, not the navigon itself.

- It seems to preferably route on highways, even if they are clogged, and initially had trouble rerouting when I took better routes. It kept wanting me to go farther and farther out of my way to get back to where I had originally diverged from its planned route, even when I rejoined the planned route farther along. However, subsequent times taking my preferred route, this problem did not happen.

- When you zoom and pan and get the screen just how you like it, and then resume routing, it goes back to close zoom when you leave the pan and zoom mode. This is hard when you are looking at the whole freeway system to decide how you are going to get from A to B and you want to keep observing it. That should be fixable in firmware.

- Restaurant coverage is not good in remote locations. This is not surprising, but driving around northern California in the small coastal towns, it would have only about 1/3 or 1/4 of the major restaurants listed,

Except for the poor live traffic coverage (which is what I got it for), it is useful and I am comfortable using it. But because of that, and other improvements are happening so fast in the gps world, I can only rate it 3 stars.

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Buyer's feedback: - great item !
very good item works great . got me in and out of buffalo with no problems (having never been there before), very easy to use .the best feature is that the unit tells you what lane you need to be in for the approaching interchange this was very helpful on several occasions. would and have recomended several times.

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Buyer's feedback: - * A very usable GPS ...
I bought this for our daughter, who is in graduate school in a large city and an internship that requires her to travel to facilities scattered over a 50 mile radius. I chose this because it was the only GPS in this price range that offered a visual depiction of interchanges so that she could see which one to take. It has worked very well for her. The only drawback we have found is that it does not 'like' her shortcuts in areas that she knows well, such as our home neighborhood. I think this is a general problem with GPS in general, because my husband's GPS 'objects' to his shortcuts too. If only they could learn alternative routes!

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Buyer's feedback: - Navigon 5100
You will not find a better GPS for the price... trust me I tried. The Reality View is a priceless option when you are in congested areas that give you little time to react and/or try to figure out exactly what exit to take. The FREE traffic updates also worked very nice on my last trip to Long Island. I've also used the Zaget survey feature to locate restaurants... again it worked very well. Accuracy on local roads as well as long distance trips have proven to be very accurate.

There are some problems with this GPS; the two biggest ones are the lack Home Depot, Lowes & other "Big Box" stores... there is every restaurant, gas station & parking places you could ever ask for. I hope they update the POI's & for this reason I wasn't too worried that some were missing. I would also like to see a higher peak volume for noisy vehicles. These two shortcomings are overshadowed by the countless other features. I would recommend this GPS to anyone. BTW I have used other brands (Garmin being my other top rated) but if you compare features you will find that you need to pay al least twice as much!

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Buyer's feedback: - * Great GPS but boot time is too long. ...
This is my 3rd gps and this gps has many great feature that I enjoy over my old gps systems. But this gps runs off windows mobile 6.0CE and it takes forever to start. You have to hold the power button for more than 10 seconds to get it to show start up... but once the system is up and running it works like a charm. I live in a big city and the auto free traffic updates are a blessing. I don't know how many times it has saved me from running into construction and traffic delays. It route fast and is very accurate on distance and speed. If I could just take the things that I like from all 3 gps systmes and add them to this one it would be perfect. Untill then I will enjoy this gps to it's fullest.