By  M. Laytos

As a person who does a lot of driving for my job a GPS was a must. I’ve been through many GPS’s from Tom Tom (One, 720, 920), Garmin (360, 760, 765T), and one or two other brands.

I decided to upgrade my Garmin 760 and my first choice was the 765T. Man, what a let down! It seemed slower at everything my 760 had done and was not worth the upgrade. When I purchased the 765T they had all the Navigon devices there. I wasn’t going to pay $[...] for a GPS (plus the states cut) so I looked at the Navigon 7200T. It was on sale for $[...] and also had a $[...] rebate for a total cost of $[...]. I had seen the device on the net and was familiar with Navigon from what I read but never owned one of their products. So now my dilemma became buy the $[...] garmin 765T or the $249 Navigon 7200T……….

Well I think I did what a lot of people do. I looked at the price of the Navigon and said to myself “There is no way this device can be good as the Garmin”. MAN WAS I WRONG! Like I said, the Garmin 765T was brutal.

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By M. J. Holland

After much research (and after upgrading from the 7200T because the sale price made it hard to pass up!) I am thoroughly pleased with the 8100T. As mentioned, I did EXTENSIVE research, and was originally going to purchase the Garmin 765, which is also a great unit. By feature list, here’s why I opted for the 8100T:

Largest screen available: I had an in-dash unit in my previous car, and I wanted something large and easy to see. 4.8″ really does give you more viewing real estate!

Feature set: with voice address entry (which, once rained in the environment it will be used has worked flawlessly!), Exit guide (see what’s ahead and get there with a screen touch) and the 3D Terrain View, not offered by any competitor, the choice was obvious!

Lifetime Real Traffic: I need traffic that works, not some dumbed-down ad-based version. this has worked like a champ and the option to auto-reroute or manually ask to recalc. is a great feature!

Inexpensive Map Updates: at $79 retail (even less on Amazon!) you get 3 years, 3 YEARS of map updates (up to 1 per quarter!) including POI’s! That’s a fraction of the next competitor! 

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By Bryan

Although I loved the 8100t, I ended up returning it because I paid full retail price for it ($600). Right now Amazon is selling the 7200t for $250 and although I love the new 3D view and large 4.8″ screen, I don’t think it justifies the $350 premium. Everything else between the 7200t and 8100t is the same.

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By S. Ghaemi

I looked into a number of devices of different brands and this one is by far the best one out there. I love the 3D view and the voice entry. The screen is amazing. It is very clear and easy to read and follow, day or night.
I highly recommend it.

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By A. Morales

I’ve had a chance to play with the Navigon 8100T and it seems to be a solid performer. Graphically speaking, it features a graphics accelerator that allows for almost smooth scrolling in 3D mode and even more smooth scrolling in 2D mode. The visuals are very good, especially the 3D Panorama view where you can see surrounding mountains or hills in perspective with 3D shading. In 2D mode, the display is crystal clear with a lot of detail. One of the few gripes that I have is that the fonts chosen aren’t the best and sometimes hard to read. Another is that the POIs aren’t always easy to find if you do not know the exact city their located in. Fortunately, there is a feature called Direct Address which allows you to set up three POI categories for direct lookup without need of knowing the city. Upon choosing one of those direct address POIs, it will return all of that category that it has in its database for the surrounding area. The 8100T features millions more POIs than its 7200T relative (one of the glaring weaknesses of the 7200T), so consequently, there are POIS all over the place on your display if you are zoomed in at maximum. There are 32 categories of POIs each with its own icon, and fortunately you can choose which of these categories you want to appear on your display so that you are not inundated with them. The unit features an autozoom which zooms out the faster you travel and vice versa.

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