We didn’t really review a Navigon navi before. We more or less know the software of the company form Panasonic Strada or the Samsung i550, i560 couple. I think we can agree that the software in these devices wasn’t a groundbreaking success. Of course we shouldn’t base on this, as these navis had a modified version. Still, it could have been good anyway.

The man in the street couldn’t hear much about the company in the region, and this has its reasons: they didn’t consider the region interesting enough to take it seriously, besides being simply present here. This is no unique phenomenon, as at last year’s CeBIT the representatives of TeleAtlas have summed up what the directions are: Wsetern Europe, than the countries where Western Europeans like to got for a holiday, and than the rest. Hungary, for example, is from the latter group, and it’s a great stroke of luck that there’s an iGO, or the country would be in the same situation as Russia: their map consists of Moscow and St. Petersburg, and the road connecting the two cities.

From the international site of the company we get to know that it has been established in 1991 and they distribute navigation systems since 1996. They are developing for Pocket PCs since 2000, while TMC support came in 2002. In 2006 they bought Navteq and with this they’ve started a serious expansion. The Chicago-based company has more than 400 employees today and they are a well-known supplier of solutions on the marker. 7100 is from the upper third of their range of models and has some serious features. Let’s see what these features are good for.