Do you like having a plethora of navigation choices, Jefe? You'll love
NAVIGON's offerings unveiled at last week's
IFA, then, a suite of devices that spans from the low end to the high, all featuring pedestrian navigation -- in case you don't already look enough like a tourist. The most affluently wealthy sightseers will be nervously clutching the 8410 or 8450 Live models, both of which offer 5-inch capacitive displays made of honest to gosh glass, Real City3D offering "photo-realistic" navigation, and optional DVB-T reception to catch some Simpsons re-runs when you get lost. On the next step down are the 4.3-inch 6310 and 6350 Live, which lose the glass screen, fancy rendering (though certain landscapes and buildings are still 3D), and digital tuner. Next are the 3.5-inch 2400 and 2410, which sport up to four hours of battery life when wandering untethered around the city, while the 1400 and 1410 models round out the lineup on the low-end. The two Live models, the 8450 and the 6350, offer wireless traffic, weather, and even speed camera updates across 32 nations in Europe; a tidy bundle for those exploring the continent, but at €79.95 ($115) per year you're certainly paying for it. On the hardware side prices start at €129 ($185) for the 1400, then run all the way up to €499 ($715) for the 8450 Live.
posted Sep 7th 2009 11:14AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qYQEkbP4jE
confusing
Not to mention dumb. Physical quality (like a glass screen) should not be tied to gimmicks like a TV tuner. What if we want a large glass screen with only navigation?
Looks like we're not buying a Navigon. Great marketing decision.
Nice "Three Amigos" reference in the first sentence.
The most affluently wealthy???????? as opposed to the poor-wealthy????
omg!!!! IDK!!!!!
CoPilot Live for Android does well enough for me, thanks.
Love navigon, hope they come back usa soon. The iphone navigon app is so much better than tomtoms right now and its a shame people in the usa couldnt support them more instead of just going with overpriced garmin or tomtoms boring map graphics.
loved my 2100 max too up until my car was broken into and it got stolen, but i loved it for the graphics(although it froze up ever now and then)
Interesting you think that. I used navigon daily for a couple weeks but moved to Tom Tom and am much happier now. Interface seems a lot cleaner and easier to navigate. I guess what really bothered me was the stationary frames navigon would put up when nearing a "stay left" or "stay right" prompt.
" I guess what really bothered me was the stationary frames navigon would put up when nearing a "stay left" or "stay right" prompt."
tomtom does the same thing...
your argument is invalid....owned....
I wish we could get these cool 3D navigators for a reasonable price, seeing that adult world come up on my NAVIGON would be killer!
SWEET!!! So will this be like like a augmented reality GTA game? Do I need to provide my own chainsaw?
I never found the chainsaw in gta... ;)
Fingers crossed Navigon comes back to the US. I may cave and buy a 7200T soon if they don't.
Garmin, Tomtom and Mag images look like Playschool color forms in comparison and they are over priced.
Yes, the infantile, cartoonish graphics on GPSs are really, really tired.
I was days away from getting a Navigon GPS when I read they were leaving the North American market.
Their systems are so much better than anything else out there.
Me too, was also buying a 8100 when I heard they were leaving. Sent them an email asking for support and map updates, took them 3 days to reply. Got scared to shove $300/400 on it and got a TomTom 730, mainly because of the constant updated.
Now I regret so much, as at least here in NC, several streets are missing, numbers are always wrong and it never knows when I get to a place, I always need to cancel the route.
Should I dump this cr!p and get a Navigon anyway ?
A while back, they made GPS units for planes that where ultra-realistic. When tested in simulators, they caused accident rates to INCREASE. Why? Because it takes the mind more time to sift through the glitter to find the important information and so you spend more time looking at the GPS than looking out the window. They replaced lifelike ground/sky textures with solid/checkerboard patterns, removed building textures and replaced with solid colored blocks, etc. and accident rates went down again.
Something tells me this GPS is going to cause a lot of accidents.
Why doesn't my Garmin StreetPilot look that good... ;(
I want one...
I can soo see this thing causing a few accidents because people would pay to much attention to it.
Crazy talk man...
It's a sweater!
... So we cant get this in North America. Right?