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Saturday, June 18, 2011
Navigon 7200T 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigation with Bluetooth, Text-to-Speech, and Free Traffic Alerts (Electronics)
Navigon 7200T 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigation with Bluetooth, Text-to-Speech, and Free Traffic Alerts (Electronics)
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!
Navigon 7200T 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigation with Bluetooth, Text-to-Speech, and Free Traffic Alerts (Electronics)
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