Navigon 2100 - talk-a-lot

2100 can navigate. Period. There are no other features inside. That’s the very reason why it’s annoying that it’s not designed properly. There are some stupid vocal recordings too. For example all distances are defined like: “After 300 meters turn right”. The speeding alarm is just a simple “Attention!” Just as if I’d be hearing my mother from the back seat. It won’t tell me what to pay attention to, but at least it scares the hell out of me. At the destination: “You will reach your goal in 200 meters”. It doesn’t know the notion of “keep left/right”, it always uses the verb “turn”. Even more if we’re driving on a street which turns into one-way backwards after a point, then the navi thinks (and navigates – “at the end of the street turn right”) that we’re already at the end of the street. Although we’re not, we just have a no entry board. To put it short, there are serious language issues.

And that’s not all. In downtown it will get on our nerves in 5 minutes as it tells us in which direction to go at 300 and 130 meters before the turn and just before it too. This practically means that it’s talking continuously. An even more, it starts every sentence politely, with “Please’, thus making its speech even longer. If we have a passenger then there’s no chance of talking with each other, we won’t understand a word from the radio, we’ll only hear the navi talking continuously. I have sworn on the first occasion that at the end of the test I will jump on it, burn it and then saw it in to. Twice. Of course it’s a test device so I didn’t kill it, but I had the intention. It completely upset me.

Sounds of course can be heard clearly, there can be no complaints about this. On the whole Navigon 2100 is neither good-looking, nor really smart, but at least it gets on our nerves either with what it says, or with where it navigates. And it’s even expensive: I think that near €210 EUR is too much for the Europe-map edition, for such a price we can get navis with iGO that have similar features or even more. If we’d have an “Unrecommended” award, then I’d surely give it to this gadget.