Navigon 7200T 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigation with Bluetooth, Text-to-Speech, and Free Traffic Alerts | 
| Brand: Navigon
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 145
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Native Resolution: 480 x 272
Display Size: 4.3
Includes MP3 Player: 0
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 2.9 x 0.7 x 4.5
MPN: 10000340
Model: 10000340
UPC: 812619010024
EAN: 0812619010024
ASIN: B001EJN9OA
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| Features:
| • | Advanced Text-to-Speech Voice Guidance. Turn-by-turn directions with street names. | | • | Bluetooth Hands-Free with Contacts. Stay focused on the road ahead. | | • | NAVIGON Sync. Imports your Outlook contacts for easy access to addresses. | | • | Auto Day/Night Mode. Adjusts your screen for better daytime or nighttime viewing. | | • | Free Real-Time Traffic Updates. Coverage across 80 cities for the life of your product. |
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Product Description
Consider the NAVIGON 7200T as a guide to your world - how to get from one point to another in comfort and what you might find when you get there. The Navigon 7200t uses GPS and other technologies to keep you ahead of traffic and obstacles throughout your journey. Routine program updates re-route you around traffic congestion with color-coded incident icons, traffic flow data, and more. Only NAVIGON makes traffic work out of the box for the life of the product, no subscription, no additional hardware, no strings attached. Voice Destination Entry lets you specify a street address by saying it out loud. Landmark View 3D displays North America's best-known buildings in richly textured 3D. Reality View Pro and Lane Assistant Pro combine to provide 3D images, actual road sign text, and lane guidance to make sure you never miss another turn again. With DirectHelp, push a button and get instant directions and phone numbers to emergency and roadside services. Powered by NAVIGON's next generation software, the 7200T is fast and easy to use. An elegant 4.3" flat panel Touchscreen makes this device a true beauty. Bluetooth provides easy one touch calling and access to your cell phone contact list. NAVIGON's Exit Guide lets you search upcoming exits for restaurants, gas stations, hotels, and more with one click, gets you where you want to go. Auto Day/Night Mode SiRF InstantFix II GPS Receiver Centrality Titan I 600 MHz processor 4.3 flat panel Touchscreen with 16 - 9 aspect ratio SiRF GRF3i+ GPS chip plus InstantFix II Micro SD card slot, USB 2.0 port 64 MB RAM/2 GB MLC flash Integrated traffic receiver and antenna Non-removable 1500 mAh lithium ion battery Microsoft Windows CE 5.0 Dimensions - 4.6 x 3.2 x 0.75 Weight - 6.5 ounces
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Great GPS with boatload of features and free traffic October 22, 2008
Groundsquirrel (Texas)
35 out of 38 found this review helpful
After owning a Garmin Nuvi 660 for around 2 years, I got tired of not having updated maps (even after purchasing Garmin updates) where alot of the areas already developed over a year ago STILL weren't there -- especially the DFW area. While traffic was nice, I didnt think I should have to pay extra when the unit originally cost over $400. Enter the Navigon 7200T. This GPS fixes most of the previous version's issues (auto night/day, more accurate directions, etc) plus it has built in Zagats and great Voice recognition SW. The Zagats is ultra cool for folks like me that do alot of business travel and know restaurants only by name. One of my colleagues will say "Lets meet at Noodle Wave" and all I have to do is type the name in my Navi and Bam! I have the address, location, phone number and directions in my car. Truly awesome. Also, I like the ability to plan out my route beforehand so i can verify the directions with google or mapquest. I dont miss not having videos, mp3s on my GPS since thats what my ipod is for. So for me, the keys for a Navi are accurate and updated maps, free traffic and the ability to search places by name (not just address), the 7200T is really it.
Benefits:
Small form factor in a 4.3" screen. Bright and Reality View is a +
Free lifetime Traffic
Updated maps (more accurate than Garmin's) with 12 updates for 3 years.
Built in Zagats and restaurants, POIs, Gas stations with the ability to search by business name.
US and Canada maps.
Low price (compared to similar GPS' with same features), $50 rebate and lower overall lifecycle cost.
Improvements:
Font a bit small and may be difficult to read for some folks.
Voice not as clear as Garmin, bit more static.
Conclusion -- WAYYYY better than my Garmin Nuvi 660 and has the features I care about. Do yourself a favor and upgrade to the 7200. Its amazing.
An excellent GPS, misses a few features October 30, 2008
Ilya Tsymbal (Somerville, MA USA)
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
Got this GPS a few days ago. First impressions overall positive. I am upgrading from a TomTom PDA, so comparisons in my mind are inevitable.
The good:
o - nice packaging, minimalist, not a huge box filled with junk. Good job.
o - 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 GPS unit 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.
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.
 The best Value for your money October 23, 2008
Ahmed Fazly (MN, USA)
17 out of 19 found this review helpful
I was a previous owner of a Garmin 750. I must confess the features that I really admired in the 750 were its ease of use and its multimedia capability. However, the lack of bluetooth capability (useful in states where answering your cell phone while driving is illegal) and the lack of free traffic updates (which required an optional reciever and subscription) were a turnoff and did cause some inconvenience. Then I discovered the sheer joy of the Navigon 7200T. It's the best GPS you've never heard of. The free lifetime traffic updates, optional freshmaps service-which provides 12 map updates over 3 years for less than what Garmin would charge for one update, the Zagat ratings, logically arranged POIs were just what I was looking for. The cons were the lack of Mp3 playing capability and the lack of an FM transmitter. However, I do carry my ipod around quite a bit and i already have an FM transmitter for my ipod. So, I could easily forgive Navigon for this minor infraction. I highly recommend this product over any similarly priced item from any competitor.
 Wish I had the eyes I did 20 years ago November 4, 2008
egale
14 out of 17 found this review helpful
I have owned Garmins and Tomtoms. This gps looked very promising. It displays all the info Tomtom displays but Garmin doesn't plus it has a nice bright screen like Garmin, not TT. I was hoping for the best of both.
The good is that the 7200T routes well, no problems there. The lane assist works well although Garmin and Tomtom's implementation is a little better I think. Whereas Navigon displays the static reality few for a long time. Garmin and TT pop it up for a few seconds then go back to showing the lane assist diagram.
The Navigon is very wordy with its verbal instructions which is good. But with all the words, it doesn't speak 90% of the highway exit numbers. It rattles off the town and road, etc, etc but no exit number. What it does do though is display the exit number on the screen. This is ok if you have the eagle eyes. The fonts on the 7200T are tiny. It takes my old eyes 5 - 10 seconds to focus on the screen's small print after driving. It doesn't sound like alot but taking your eyes off the road for that long is dangerous. Don't know why they don't include exit number in the instructions.
The 7200T also displays street names. Unfortunately, every road that is not part of your route is displayed as a pencil line and each road is displayed with its street name in micro font size. Forget about being able to read them.
Another short coming is the 7200T's POI database. It is very small and is missing most national retailers, gyms, health clubs, doctors, dentists and who knows what else. Its POI search is also horribly broken. You have 3 choices. NEARBY - gives you POIs within a very small radius, too small. The next choice is CITY. Unfortunately, you have to know the exact city. Most other brands search NEAR CITY but not this. If the POI you are looking for is actually one town over, you will never find it. If you are in unfamiliar territory and don't know the adjoining citys to search individually, you are out of luck. The third choice is STATE. Most POI categories are not included in STATE so this choice is totally worthless.
On top of this all, the screen sensitivity is not great and the buttons are small. You will have to enter and address multiple times as you tapped the wrong letter or have to tap the same letter multiple times because it didn't pick it up.
So to summarize, it routes well but the screen fonts are so little its dangerous to look at while driving and the whole POI thing is terrible. Maybe a firmware fix will improve font size and change exit number verbal instructions. Maybe new maps will increase POI database size and add good search functionality. Until then, this is just another gps with lots of potential.
I REALLY wanted to like this November 3, 2008
Tim (Atlanta, GA)
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
I really wanted to like this, it has all of the features that are missing on the Garmon NUVI, lane assist, reality view, speed limits and best of all speech recognition. However, the touch screen sensitivity is really miserable, it often wouldn't respond at all, or after repeated taps, it would sometimes just go into standby. The menu navigation is also a tad clumsy, but the worst shortcoming for me was the tiny and not very well contrasted teeny tiny font. Lots of nice functionality, but, for me with the touch screen insensitivity & font size and menu navigation it would really have been a hazard to drive with, oh and yes I had my glasses on.
I gave it 3 stars on its functionality - if you've got 20 15 vision go for it.
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