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17 out of 27 people found this review helpful
1.5 stars
"Fine product - Falsely Advertised"
Pros: Reality view, lane assistance are some excellent features.
Cons: Datasheet from Navigon US website says a 4gb sd card is included but they ship units with 2gb cards!!
Summary: Let me explain the poor rating I have given the 7100. The device as such looks sharp. The screen is very clear and sharp even in sunlight. In Michigan, around Detroit routing has been top notch. I found reality view to be very helpful. Voice guidance is very accurate. When it says turn now I have always found myself just a few feet away from the actual turn. Connection to my bluetooth phone works great. Have not had a single connection problem. People have been unable to guess that I am speaking through navigon.
Well, here comes the part I did not like. Imagine ordering a laptop with 2Gb of ram and you find that they shipped you with 512Mb. This is what Navigon did. On their US website their datasheet for 7100 specifies a 4GB card but they have been shipping 2GB sd cards. The 2GB cards have just 19mb of free space left.
I contacted support through email (from the US Navigon website) - it gets routed to european support and they claim it is not their problem!! (How about routing it to US support??!!)
One of the first things I tried to do was to register my device with Navigon. But to my surprise there was no way to register the 7100. They have a online form for registering their previous model the Pocket LOOX but not the 7100. When I called the US phone tech support - this was news to them!!
In my opinion stay away from this product till they get their support infrastructure straightened out.
(And also I found that text-to-speech does not seem to work for some side streets)
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Since when if you are in a car and some one is directing to a turn, that you turn immediately and on an dime. Do you not put on your turning signals 90 meters ahead of time? Please do not be driving in front of me when you turn, it could turn deadly.
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this is a top notch review. Until the software people in Germany fix the US version it is not a good purchase.
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