Navigon 40 Easy

Navigon 40 Easy review

The Navigon 40 Easy is Navigon's 'Goldilocks' sat-nav, sitting above the Navigon 20 but below the 70 in the company's pure sat-nav model range. It's available in three guises; Easy, Plus and Premium. This Easy edition lacks the motion sensor, text-to-speech and spoken TMC of the Plus model and does without the Bluetooth hands-free, voice commands, 3D graphics and Live services in the Premium model. The Navigon 40 Easy has the same user interface, mapping data as the smaller Navigon 20 Plus, so make sure you read that review for the full lowdown on those features. It's available to buy now for around £140. The primary reason for buying the Navigon 40 Easy over the Navigon 20 is its larger screen. The unit comes with a healthy-sized 4.3-inch touchscreen display that runs in a 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio. Naturally, this makes the unit slightly easier to read than the Navigon 20 and also a tiny bit easier to use if you've enormous sausage fingers. The Navigon 40 Easy lacks the motion sensing gubbins seen on the Plus model, so you'll have to exert yourself physically and tap the screen to bring up the menu instead of waving a casual hand at it. Sadly, Navigon hasn't taken advantage of the extra screen real estate on offer to tweak the fiddly postcode entry system.