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An excellent GPS Navigation blurtooth, misses a few features
Got this Portable GPS a few days ago. First impressions overall positive. I am upgrading from a navigation tomtom , so comparisons in my mind are inevitable.

The Navigon navigation good:
o - nice packaging, minimalist, not a huge box filled with junk. Good job.
o - Navigon GPS InstantFix works like a charm. Satellite fix was established very quickly, a matter of seconds rather than minutes. No complaints there.
o - Response times to screen input are quick. Previous versions generated complaints of slow response; that’s clearly been fixed. The only delays I noticed were when I updated settings.
o - Nice design, compact, frameless screen. Matte finish on screen and on the case, hides fingerprints well, unlike the previous version which was a fingerprint magnet.
o - Screen is large, bright, and has nice sensitivity to touch, both fingertips and fingernails.
o - Reality View of exists is certainly appreciated.
o - Free Traffic was a major selling feature. Keep in mind here, the traffic radio receiver is built in, but you still need an external antenna. The supplied Mini USB car charger cord doubles as an antenna, but I also found out that any old USB cable with a mini USB plug will work. Would have been nice to have an antenna built into the unit, but I don’t know if that’s possible.
o - Charges via a standard mini USB connector - a huge plus - can plug into a PC or a USB hub, or any mini USB cell phone charger. Very nice.
o - When you plug it into a PC, it becomes a Mass Storage Device, assigned a drive letter, you can just copy files to it if you want. No need for custom software
o - Text-to-speech is very good, accurate and easy to understand.
o - Speed limit display and alerts are good.
o - Speaker sound is plenty loud enough, easy to control from main screen.
o - Bluetooth speakerphone feature was easy to pair with my cell phone, and works flawlessly. It allows me to dial either from the phone and speak through the navigon GPS or dial directly from the GPS when I look up Zagat reviews or any listed POI.
o - Automatic night/day display brightness switching worked great. It switched to night mode just as it started getting dark. I assume it calculates the sundown times based on exactly where you are.

The Navigon bluetoth Now the bad:
o - Box came with no user manual, just a URL of where to find it online. The website says there would be a CD in the box; there isn’t. Either poor QC on packaging, or a poor design choice. Even the cheapo gadgets come with a tiny CD with a PDF manual.
o - first time I turned it on, I got an error message, then the thing crashed and needed a reboot.
o - Fist night it instructed me to go the wrong way up a one way street, even though the map showed it as a one way street. What’s up with that?
o - The current position displayed (GPS coordinates) is useless most of the time, takes up a sizable chunk of screen, and there is no way to get the hell rid of it.
o - The altitude calculation is incorrect. Even with as many as seven satellite signals, it tells me I’m below the sea level. I’m not.
o - there’s no way to switch orientation from horizontal to vertical. Sad. I might like to know more of what’s ahead of me than what’s on the sides.
o - Simulation of route goes at one speed only, no way to speed up or slow down. The TomTom allows you to play simulations at any speed from 10% to 5x speed, other ways too.
o - Map display is mediocre. Not anywhere as nice as Google maps on my phone. You guys could have done much better.
o - screen is really cluttered. No way to get rid of right side bar and bottom bar, which together take up almost half the scree space.
o - information display is limited; Either ETA or time to destination, not both; no current time.
o - browse route only shows text and 2d symbols of turns; not 3d map images, no map.
o - no ability to play either music or video. This is a Windows CE device; it has a micro SD card and a speaker and an audio out. All you would need is a program to play music; yet it is not supplied. At this price, I would expect that little bit of functionality. On long trips, it might be nice to be able to play podcasts or recorded books. Fortunately, there is likely to be a way to hack the device to do that. [...]. It refers to a Mio device, but the same principles apply here. I haven’t done it, but it should be possible.
o - the MicroSD card is impossible to remove without using a tiny screwdriver.

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