Hands-on with Navigon's new 8110 and 2100 Max GPS units

We're fairly impressed with Navigon's showing at CeBIT, busting out those 4.3-inch 2100 Max PNDs at a $299 pricepoint, and raising the bar for GPS sexy with the 8110. The software for the 2100 Max couldn't be much more frill-free, but we found the 3D maps of the 8110 -- as in, actual 3D terrain -- to be quite impressive. We didn't see any 3D buildings in our demo, but apparently you can download those to flesh out the experience.

Hands-on with Navigon's new 8110 and 2100 Max GPS units

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2008 3:16PM]

Hi, this is great, can you get us some more info on the connections of the 8110 on the active cradle?
can I plug everything (charger, earphones/audio out, etc into the cradle so I can have a go at integrating the whole thing more permanently into me car or am I still left with dangling cables off the main unit?
My main gripe about PND, cannot bear all these cables and crappy mounts, somebody please come up with a better solution in addition to the sipmple and moveable cradles, they are good for a rental car, but for my main car, rubbish.
Smart integration, please, cannot bear another FM transmitter thingy...

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2008 3:58PM]

wow cmon engadget, you guys are such GPS fanboys. it's been, what, 10 articles in the last couple days? so biased!

/sarcasm