Navigon may have dubbed its 8100T navigator “uber-premium” when it was released back at the beginning of November, but the New York Times’ David Pogue may have destroyed the devices reputation forever. Get this:
Man, was I excited to review the Navigon 8100T.
Imagine: a GPS unit for your car that takes spoken input (instead of your having to tap out destinations one letter at a time) AND one that has an amazing 3-D view of the world, supplied by NASA satellite imagery, rather than some boring flat map. And free traffic reporting for life, not some annoying subscription.
At $600, it had to be one of the coolest GPS units I’d ever read about.
Sounds good so far. But then Pogue gets not one, but two Navigon 8100T’s that don’t even turn on! Oh, but it gets worse. The unit’s speech recognition is slower than manual destination entry, the 3D map viewing was flawed to say the least…and that was it for Pogue. He didn’t even bother to finish reviewing the unit. I’ll let you read his article to get the specific details, but what we have written here pretty well sums it up. I haven’t tried it myself, but if you trust David Pogue, don’t buy the Navigon 8100T. It could have been a one off fluke, but I doubt it.
Prove me wrong though Navigon, send a 8100T my way.
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