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Pharos Drive GPS 150: Perfect For Our Budget Conscious, Feminine Side

by Justin

The pink Pharos Drive GPS 150 is the perfect GPS navigator for the girliest of the girly-girls.Â Featuring a 3.5-inch color LCD touchscreen, a pedestrian mode that plots pedestrian routes with options only accessible by foot, a 32-bit processor, 20-channel SiRFStarII receiver, text-to-speech, and finally NAVTEQ US maps and millions of POIs.Â Not bad for a GPS unit perfect for the budget conscious consumer, costing only $200.Â Oh and for those of you who aren’t particularly thrilled by a pink PND mounted to your dashboard, the Pharos Drive GPS 150 also comes in black and blue.

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April 11, 2008 No Comments

Pharos Drive GPS 250: High-End Navigation For A Low-End Price

by Justin

The Pharos Drive GPS 250 is a high-end GPS system for a low-end price. At only $299, you’ll be hard pressed to find a personal navigator at a similar price with such an extensive list of features. The Pharos Drive GPS 250 features:

480×272 pixel 4.3-inch widescreen display
Windows CE 4.2 OS
266-MHz Freescale MX21 processor with 8MB of ROM and 64MB of SDRAM
Navteq maps of the US and Canada with one million POIs preloaded on a 1 MB SD card
an easy-to-use interface and main menu with all functionality coming from three options: Go, Map, and Settings
2D north, 2D track up, or 3D track up map views
1,200-mAh lithium-polymer battery, good for 5.7 hours
text-to-speech

Testing resulted in an impressive speed rating for the Pharos Drive GPS 250, calculating and mapping a 12 mile trip through Brooklyn, NY in 12 seconds and a 640 mile trip from New York to Ohio in 21 seconds. Route recalculation after a missed turn was also fairly quick.

The Pharos Drive GPS 250 is a marked improvement over previous Pharos GPS models, but the company’s navigators still don’t feature Bluetooth, media playback, or real-time traffic updates. The Pharos Drive GPS 250 is available now at Amazon.

Via PCMag

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March 19, 2008 No Comments

Pharos Starts Pre-CES Buzz With Trips & Pics Announcement

by Justin

GPS functionality on your digital camera…wow! Pharos decided to start some pre-CES buzz yesterday by announcing Trips & Pics, a geo-logger that actually brings GPS to your digital camera. Trips & Pics include a Pharos iGPS-500 receiver and a pocket-size battery unit that’ll record details such as time, location, speed, and heading and allows you to define how often the receiver logs information, from every second to every 5 minutes. This data is then exportable to your PC where you can view your trip route on apps such as Goople Maps. Pharos Trips & Pics will be available later this month for $89.95.