Here’s a pretty loaded GPS system for just under $200. The Navigon 7200T features free lifetime real-time traffic updates, voice destination entry, built-in Bluetooth speakerphone function that lists your cellphone’s contacts (you can even import contacts from Outlook), and the cool Reality View Pro mode that “displays photo-realistic 3D views with actual road signs and lane guidance for virtually every highway interchange and exit you will encounter.”
There’s also text-to-speech directions and over a million points of interest, including ZAGAT ratings for nearby restaurants. The free traffic data is a nice feature, as some companies charge by the month for similar functionality. This deal’s good today only while they last.
Navigon 7200T 4.3-Inch Portable GPS [Amazon via FatWallet]
Does Navigon pay you guys to push their awful units???
They have the absolute WORST navigating algorithms that route you everywhere but your destination! Sure they look pretty, but all you’re getting is a map.
Try googling navigon+routing+problems
Unfortunately Navigon uses same routing technology as Garmin Nuvi, Navtech. I am ready to replace my Nuvi 680 bc of it constantly “recalculating” to a dumb way, such as taking me off a hiway through a few lights only to put me back on one exit later since as the crow flies it was straighter course (and I have it set for fastest route vs shortest). Dumb dumb dumb. I decided to investigate other options and was looking at Navigon. Try “nuvi+routing+problems” google search and you get to hear others with my experience, only with Garmin Nuvi. I suspect you can replace the google search product name with any competitor and get search results with lots of complaints. I am disappointed that I will not experience a difference with Navigon. Will listen to advice on other competitors.