Despite of the fact that the competition on the personal navigation devices' market is a very tough one, Navigon has come up with a pretty interesting set of products over the past few years, enjoying a sufficient level of success to keep the company afloat and providing just enough funding for new and improved products. And that's exactly what we'll talk about as follows, namely the company's Navigon 2100 max, released back in the first half of 2008, which offers users a rather OK set of navigation features at a very affordable price tag.



The display is one of the most important selling points of any PND, and for this reason the Navigon 2100 max has been equipped with a 4.3-inch touchscreen display, on which the user can clearly see the navigation maps or the points of interest, in either 2D or 3D modes.



However, the truly impressive features provided by the Navigon 2100 max are the ones related to the navigation process itself. Thus, for example the device allows users to navigate complicated intersections fast and easy with photo-realistic 3D images, actual road signs and lane assistance.



Additionally, the PND provides turn-by-turn spoken directions, as well as a very useful lane assistant that provides simple to view lane guidance so users can safely make a turn. Moreover, the portable navigation devices also offers a speed assistant function, which displays the speeds and can warn you if you go over the limit.



As most other products of this type, the 2100 max supports route planning, includes a predictive text feature (for easier input of the desired address) and ever sports a logbook, which records the traveled routes in the PND's memory.



From the point of view of the included hardware, the NAVIGON 2100 max does offer a few surprises, but nothing really major. The only rather unusual choice is the one related to the GPS chipset (Nemerix NX 3), because otherwise the PND features a rather standard configuration, including here a Samsung 400MHz processor, 512 MB RAM/64 MB Flash ROM (used for running the Microsoft Windows CE 5.0 operating system) and an SD card slot for loading additional maps. The whole device is powered by an 1200 mAh Li-Ion power pack, which provides a functioning life of around 3 hours.



Best of all, the Navigon 2100 max has an estimated retail price of just around 300 US dollars, which means that soon enough we'll probably be able to find for a lot less at various retailers.