Navigon's 81xx GPS unit lands on FCC's doorstep

Now, we're not certain whether the 81xx actually arrived in a basket wrapped in old linens, but whatever the case, the FCC was kind enough to take Navigon's forthcoming PND in and put it through the necessary paces. After doing a little 2 + 2, we're going ahead and assuming that this unit is the 3D map-lovin' 8110 that we played around with briefly at CeBIT. As you'd expect from an FCC filing, there's no mention of when this thing will be freed for selling here in the US, but we don't expect it to lag behind the 2100 Max for too awfully long.

[ed @ Apr 24th 2008 11:20AM]

First?

[PEZ @ Apr 24th 2008 11:06PM]

I hope this pig has BT and maybe WiFi or something to make it tasty. It would be nice to be able to get free hotspot access to maybe some POI's. But lets just hope they fixed the damn thing.

[Steven Collier @ May 9th 2008 6:05AM]

The 8110 is now shipping in Europe, I received mine yesterday.

The 3D maps are cool, the text to speach for roadnames is very good.

As expected, the voice recognition is terrible, I clearly don't have the right kind of voice.

[Jonathan @ May 13th 2008 5:10PM]

Have you re done the short training part. I have found the voice recognition really good. Can even find street names I normally have to spell to people.

[chris_ah1 @ May 14th 2008 8:35PM]

Hey all - I found a wonderful gallery of hands-on pics and videos!!!
http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/4899089_Fm6kY#292400029_F7SVD

There is also one here of course: http://www.engadget.com/photos/hands-on-with-navigons-new-8110-and-2100-max-gps-units/

There are also quite a few good vids on youtube too.

:-)