Almost Perfect

In October, 2009, I drove 7200 km across Germany, France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Austria, solo, using Navigon to guide my travels. I cannot say enough good about Navigon. It worked almost flawlessly and made the navigation part of the trip simple.
Navigon always found the satellite signal and seldom dropped it—even when going through most tunnels in the mountains. The program never ‘crashed’ and always picked up the route after stops to fuel, etc.
Shopping locations, major points of interest, hotels, and restaurants were found easily using the POI feature. Navigon works with the Contacts app, so I could book a hotel ahead on the Internet, copy the address to Contacts, and have Navigon set a route to that address in Contacts. For side trips, I simply turned off the sound and went wherever I felt like going. Navigon recalculated a new route to the original destination. When I had completed the side trip, I turned the sound back on, and went from there. I even used Navigon for walking trips in town and out in the countryside. I tried out most of the features for route--scenic, quickest, avoid tolls, etc.—and the route choices all seemed to fit.
The iPod interface works really well, with suppression of the music and a louder presentation of the directions with impending route changes.
Speed limit display was almost always correct and the audio warning for speeding worked beautifully.

About the only thing I can fault Navigon on is that the maps are out of date in some places—particularly north of Madrid in Spain where there is a lot of new road development. But this is probably true for all GPS navigation programs.

I’m very satisfied with Navigon.

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