Navigon 7100 - queer fish

7100 is the eminence grise of the navis, it runs on a 400 MHz Samsung CPU, in the company of 256 MB of Flash-ROM and 64 MB of RAM. This is the official data, but other sites mention 64-64 MB of each. Taking everything into account the result of hardware optimization is medium. Don’t take me wrong, speed is okay, but I wouldn’t call the machine a speeding maniac.

The navi has a SirfStar III antenna, which finds GPS signal relatively quick and keeps the connection alive even in downtown. Navigon’s map consists mostly of grey and orange colors, I found it quite desolate. Since TMC is only in its testing period in Budapest, I went off to the Austrian capital, in order to check the feature. Well, the Austrian map is much, much better than the Hungarian on, the navi reads the number of roads to be followed, but it doesn’t know street names. There is a band assistant, that worked great.

The POI database test had an interesting result. As I don’t know many places in Vienna, and I didn’t want to go to the usual ones, I tried to look up the holy shrine of all shopaholics, Shopping City Süd. My search had no results; the database doesn’t know such a place, either in Vienna, or in Mödling. It’s a plus, however, that it enlisted hundreds of wineries (thus it received a highly recommended award from our managing director, Parci). I started looking for a nice roadblock or traffic jam. Well, we can do this easily in Budapest; it’s enough to start the car’s engine. I had to wander about the streets of the Austrian capital for a while, but an accident “came handy”, the navi told me: “due to traffic information, the route is being replanned”. There has almost been another accident, I could hardly see from my tears…