Navigon 8110 released

jonandmarkuk · Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 8:52 pm Post subject:

I now have some pictures and vids online

http://jonandmark.smugmug.com/gallery/4899089_Fm6kY#292400029_F7SVD

If anyone wants videos of certain things let me know.

jonandmarkuk · Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 9:30 pm Post subject:

In answer to an earlier question. Street names only show in the standard 2D and 3D modes. The view 3D mode just shows major areas.. i.e town names that your driving past.

DaveMatthews · Regular Visitor Joined: Dec 25, 2004 Posts: 221

jonandmarkuk · Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 10:50 pm Post subject:

There is other options, I only snapped a pic of one option screen but it lists car slow car motorbike lorry and pedestrian and bicycle.

As for the TMC I'll have to try and look, but until something shows on a route I may not see what happens.

I wish the UK would broadcast TMC on more than one station. If it's any interest on the traffic info that was showing the icon next to it said 'Premium TMC'

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mikealder · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 12:25 am Post subject:

Just for the record RDS-TMC within the UK is handled by two companies, iTIS Holdings supply data to TomTom and Navman as well as other manufacturers.
Their competition is from TrafficMaster, so the UK is far from a single source of data.
As for only one Radio station being involved with the transmission of data, there are considerably more, in excess of 100 radio stations transmit the data within the UK, most using different frequencies spanning the FM band - Mike

jonandmarkuk · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 7:06 am Post subject:

EddyDC · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 04, 2007 Posts: 150

Guys,

You have to check the German forums on Navigon. You'll find a link with a coupon code, which gives you 15% reduction. I first thought it would be DE only, but it works on Navigon shop in other languages - in my case Dutch speaking - shop for other countries too.
Alternatives are German shops; which are certainly cheaper than BE. Most of them ship outside DE also.

Eddy

jonandmarkuk · Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 12:12 am Post subject:

DaveMatthews · Regular Visitor Joined: Dec 25, 2004 Posts: 221

Thanks very much for those new pics and vids. Text-to-Speech and Voice Input seem to work very well - the latter being particularly impressive!

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Cheers

Dave

jonandmarkuk · Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 12:17 pm Post subject:

I have to load a few more videos and pics onto the website, but unless I can get WiFi outside in the back yard today it won't be until the sun goes in ;)

Have used the Navigon a fair bit this weekend and I'm really pleased with it.

Tried out the FM transmitter and that works well, however I would only recommend playing MP3 files while navigating on longer journeys down the motorways as it does start to annoy when it keeps lowering the MP3 volume to announce directions.
But like I say if you have miles to go before an instruction then the MP3 playback via FM would work great. I'm tempted to get a larger memory card as you only get a 2Gb SD card however they can take the SD HC cards which go upto 8Mb.

I'm also pleased with the screen brightness as even though it's been really sunny I have been able to see the screen fine (was wearing sunglasses so could have made a difference, but in this bright weather most people would).

The only think I have found is the Lane Assistance seems very sparce.. I'm not sure how complex the junctions have to be before you get the lane info.

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jonandmarkuk · Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 2:22 pm Post subject:

I agree about the mapping detail and the lack of reviews.

However the Navigon 8110's have only just come out and I have read that there is no more stock available until 15th May at the earliest.

Foreign language video demo's have started to appear on Youtube and there is a review on www.nav-user.com but it's all in Dutch Sad

Only thing I noted at the bottom of the review was it appeared to score very highly.
You can post questions on that forum as the mod seems to know English very well.

Have to say not noticed an issues with the software on the unit at all, in fact speed wise I'm very impressed. I believe the USA routing has since been fixed. ?
TMC certainly seems to be working for me, just need to plot a route that has an incident on it Rolling Eyes

They haven't released the 8110 in the USA but they have released the 2100 Max which also features the v7 Navigon software. Maybe the American accents confuse the Voice recognition software too much Laughing

I'm sure we will get some UK reviews soon Cool

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jonandmarkuk · Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 3:15 pm Post subject:

They seem to be fairing well in the USA now.

"CHICAGO, April 23, 2008 — NAVIGON Inc. claimed the number four position in the personal navigation category in Q1 2008 in both unit and dollar volume, according to The NPD Group’s Retail Tracking Service. NAVIGON earned a market share of 7.7 percent, up 4.1 percent compared to Q4 2007. NAVIGON’s unit volume in Q1 2008 was 69 percent of the volume in Q4 2007, which is above the market average and industry expectations."

If I can get a plug in adapter or spend a bit of time in the car playing with routes I'll see if I can get it to warn me about traffic info and see if it offers me a re-route.
I know the same questions were started to be asked over the TMC on the ViaMichelin devices.

Have just tried to get an online translation of the review on Nav-user but some words make little sense Laughing Out Loud

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