Navigon 2100 - talk-a-lot

The subject of our current review has a Samsung 2440 CPU, ticking at 400 MHz, just like many other navis nowadays. Windows CE 5.0 is also a good old friend and the 64 MB ROM/RAM is nothing new either; we have a classic hardware, we could say. The SIRF Star III receiver inside the gadget establishes connection in a couple of minutes. I have estimated an average of 1-2 meters precision – Navigon’s software is not so sincere in this matter than iGO. I had no problems with reception, but this time I couldn’t test TMC, as during the testing period I haven’t been travelling abroad, but I suppose it has the same features as the one in the bigger brother.

I have extremely mixed feelings regarding the updated map. To tell the truth if I don’t know, I wouldn’t even have observed. To be even more sincere I didn’t even observe this way either. At the external section of the Szentendrei street, near Cora, there is an overpass that has been constructed more than half a year ago and it’s not on the map, but this wouldn’t have been such a great problem. The most frightening thing happened when I was headed to Nyíregyháza. At Polgár the software has firmly told me to exit the highway (not knowing about the roundabout that has been constructed there), than it has told me to return to the highway. To the same place. Although there is an outlet center at that place, but I didn’t want to go there. But this hasn’t been its only trick. At Pilisvörösvár it told me the following: “Turn right. Turn left.” But there has been nowhere to turn to. Funny, isn’t it?

The software’s usability didn’t change a bit. They have omitted the QWERTY keyboard again, in Budapest it forces me to choose from districts when it doesn’t even know where I want to go. When defining a detour it is quite difficult to add an intermediary target. If we define a target after power-on then it offers us to show a demo since there is no connection yet, but then it won’t tell us that meanwhile it has connected to the satellites, so it might even show the demo for hours instead of navigation.