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Navigon 7200T 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigation with Bluetooth, Text-to-Speech, and Free Traffic Alerts | 
 enlarge | Brand: Navigon
Category: CE
List Price: $499.99
Buy New: $249.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 226
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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| Customer Reviews: Read 15 more reviews...
 Pros Outweigh the Cons December 3, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Much has already been said by other reviewers weighing the pros and cons of this GPS, however I'll point out a few of the ups and downs that I've noticed personally:
PROS:
I haven't had much of a problem with the pronunciation of street and highway names yet. I've actually been very impressed. I guess that I'll just have to wait and see if in any of my longer journeys I run into problems with abbreviated wording like one user mentioned.
I like the ability to select destinations by tapping a point on the map. I'm not sure if the higher-end Garmin's or TomTom's have this feature, but it's pretty nifty.
You can import address books from Outlook and the phone feature includes four "presets" for speed-dial.
The GPS lists POI's at UPCOMING exits on controlled highways by the exit number and exit name.
A subscription to three years of map updates (Navigon calls it "FreshMaps") is REALLY reasonably priced!
Ok, and all of the other clearly advertised features are great for this price and seem to work VERY WELL!
CONS:
There's only ONE text-to-speech voice and no downloadable ones! That's terrible! Thankfully it's not TOO annoying of a voice!!!
You can DISPLAY special characters and lower-case lettering in your phone & address book so long as the information has been synchronized with your phone or with Outlook but you cannot ENTER anything but capital lettering and the symbology that you can enter is sparse to say the least. (There's not even an ampersand or a dash in the symbol choices!) The special characters that you CAN enter seem very illogical.
You can't move the cursor to the RIGHT when editing phonebook entries or speed-dial presets.
I have found the speed limits to be VERY inaccurate or just completely missing in the suburbs of Albany, NY. You would think that when NAVTECH sends out their surveyors that they would make a note of the correct speed limits on the roads. Afterall, the map data is usually VERY accurate, why can't they get the speed right? It would be nice to have the ability to manually change the limits on the device somehow.
There are no data services via a bluetooth-connected device such as weather updates. That is a really nice feature which is included on my TomTom and would have been nice to see on the Navigon.
There are no color customizations or changeable color schemes available.
As another poster mentioned, my 7200T can't tell the difference between night and day. I have to toggle it manually. I would think that updating almanac data based on current geographical position on device such as this would be an easy thing. Navigon needs to get on the ball with this one.
And the WORST CON of ALL: The bluetooth connectivity is VERY problematic! When I turn off my car, power is cut to the 12VDC adapter. This puts the GPS into standby, but after sitting overnight it goes into the complete shut-down mode. Powering back up out of stand-by is fine but when I start it up in the morning for the first time, it will NOT reconnect to my phone. I have to go through the entire bluetooth pairing process again! Of course, it's not as simple as just selecting new connection either! I have to "clear connection data" on the device, make my phone discoverable again, tell the GPS to find a new connection, and then enter the pass key again. If I do NOT go through this whole process again and only select "New Connection" without clearing out the data, the GPS freezes up on the "pairing" screen and I have to completely power it off and back on again. In ADDITION, it takes far too long to actually establish a connection to your device when you tell it to make a call (when your ARE connected). For example, when you tell it to dial a number, the person is sitting there on the line saying "hello? hello?" a couple of times before your GPS realizes that it's connected and allows you to speak!
And the last con? Navigon's website doesn't even have their two NEWEST GPS units on their product list when you try to submit a bug report!
OK, so it would almost seem like there's more bad than good. NOT TRUE. This is a great unit, especially for the $250 weekend-after-Thanksgiving price. It's still worth the $299 that it's going for right now. I don't need to waste your time or space on Amazon to talk about all of the great features that are advertised and what other users have already talked about. The pros clearly outweigh the cons on this one!
 good routing, but real traffic information is useless. December 2, 2008
this mode has much improved in routing, very quick, and acurate calculation compared to previous mode of navigon. voice instruction is very clear. real view is ok, but that good because it is only demo ( imitation, not real road like you see on the rout). voice recognition is not very good if you have english accent. The worst thing is real traffic information ( which was main reason I bought this unit),almost useless. many times I were on very bad traffic rout, but the gps still showed no events in traffic problem. I did not try different gps (like garmin 765 and so on), I dont't know if all gps' real time traffic information is like this. If you purchase this unit for regular routing, it is good for you. but if you purchase this unit for providing you real traffic problem, just forget about it.
 The Upgrade Price Was Worth It December 1, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had the 2200T in my cart and just before purchasing compared it to the price of the 7200T (same Amazon website). The difference was so small I jumped at the 7200T instead for the extra features you can see on the site. I looked at the comparable Garmin Nuvis and it was no comparison. Navigon's innovative features won out. Their unit speed has improved tremendously with these models as well.
Like another reviewer said, I REALLY want to like this GPS November 29, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This GPS has so much potential. It is ridiculously feature-rich and has so many great options. I've had the chance to use it for a few days now on some fairly lengthy trips. And to my advantage it sat side-by-side with a Garmin 760 the entire time. My final consensus was to switch to a Garmin 765T which includes free traffic. But anyhow, here's my review of this unit.
PROS:
-Ridiculously fast recalculations. If you make a wrong turn, literally within 10 feet of making that wrong turn, it has already recognized it and re-routed you. It is just insane that way.
-Routing is pretty good compared to the Garmin. For the most part they were the same routes.
-Tons of features (avoidances, etc...)
-Lane assist was dead-on for me, and was very helpful.
CONS (or things you should know before you buy it):
-Almost packed it back up 5 minutes after opening it because I got the illegal operation screen like 6 times in a row after turning the unit on for the first time. I almost gave up, but on the 6th time it let me in finally.
-My biggest problem with this unit is that it does NOT turn on automatically when you start your car. I know it may sound petty, but I like my GPS on all the time because I check out street names, and keep an eye on the speed limits where they aren't posted. Having to turn on the unit EVERY time I get in the car is a nuisance (dealt with that for a year with a Mio C520; never again).
-Speech recognition kind of sucks. For the NJ Turnpike it kept saying "New Jersey TPKE" (try pronouncing TPKE as a word and that's what it sounds like). It does this numerous times with major roads, including the "Garden State P" (why can't it just say PARKWAY???). The Garmin does a much better job with this.
-As well it does not announce 95% of the exit numbers. It DOES show it on the screen but it is so stinking tiny it's almost impossible to see it (and I have fantastic vision).
-The screen is feature-rich, but almost a little too rich. It's hard to see everything. Fonts are small, icons are small, buttons are small, etc... Just annoying overall. I kept seeing tiny icons pop up but I couldn't tell what the heck they were (gas stations, etc...?).
-Traffic assist is a little more detailed than the Garmin. BUT one huge downside is that it does not tell you how major the delay is (other than color coding the icon). Garmin tells you how many minutes you will be backed up (ie 14 minutes); while the Navigon just tells you there is slow traffic, or stop and go traffic, or whatever. Makes it difficult to determine if you should route around it, or try and go through.
-Automatic traffic rerouting is a joke. We had the GPS set to automatically route around traffic, yet on numerous occasions it took us right into traffic jams that it already knew about. The Garmin kept trying to tell us to get off (which we should have listened to).
-Automatic daylight/nighttime display isn't working right. The time shows correctly but it was night for at least an hour before it switched over. If it is going to be wrong it needs to be wrong the other direction and switch to night display earlier rather than later. Having a blinding white light in your eyes for an hour while you're driving is NOT a good idea. The Garmin's switch was pretty much dead-on with sunset.
-HUGE inconvenience is that you cannot search by name in the POI database. This renders it almost useless, though I have to say Garmin's is pretty well useless also. Numerous times both GPS's wouldn't show major retailers we were looking for and were only a few miles away.
-Windshield mount is kind of obtrusive. Garmin really has the best mount out there as it is small and out of the way. This one is about twice as large which means it takes up twice as much of your windshield space and view of the road.
-Speaker isn't that great. On the top two volume settings it is crackly, like a cheap alarm clock radio. On the third highest setting it is just about the right volume when driving on the highway, so it works out anyway.
So in all, there are a lot of negatives, especially when comparing it to the Garmin units. If you've never owned a Garmin then you probably wouldn't rate it as negatively as I do. In fact I would probably have given it 4 or maybe 5 stars if I wasn't already spoiled by the Garmin GPS units. My advice? Spend the extra $100 and go with the Garmin 765T (or 755T). It's worth the price!
 Stay away from Navigon November 28, 2008
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
I bought the 7200 becuse all the bells and whistles... Navigon is great exept they have built their nav system on a version of windows that is unstable. When the unit comes out of standby, not all of the buttons work or it just locks up and you have to reboot it. $300 junk. I will say if it were a stable system Iwould go back to them. For now the bad OS makes the thing worthless
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