Pharos Drive GPS 150 Automobile Navigator

Pharos Drive 150

Strengths: Nice bright screen, quick satellite lock, quick route re-calculation, decent accuracy.

Weakness: Cradle does not have direct power hookup, brightness setting resets back to 100% after power up.

The screen is nice and bright, satellite usually locks on within a minute. Re-routing is very quick, and accuracy is decent so far. The TTS is a nice feature especially at this price range. User interface is not bad. Overall a great value for the price I paid. The only negatives I've found so far are 1) The cradle does not have a direct power hookup (you'll have to put the unit into the cradle...

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Great GPS with affordable price

Strengths: Text-to-speech feature; quick re-route; low price

Weakness: no Canadian map available out of the box

I bought this device for $99 after $50 rebate from Fry's and tested it for a week, especially with a 355-mile round trip. I had been using PDA running Tomtom with bluetooth GPS before I got this device. My experience is that this is a nice GPS, everything is comparable with PDA version of Tomtom plus text-to-speech feature that usually comes with more expansive GPS devices. The only thing missing...

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Pharos PDR150 - Works as expected - Hackable!

Strengths: - Destinator v7 - clean interface - good options - quick to pick up GPS on cold start (took ~15 seconds while sitting indoors about 8 feet from window) - works as expected - TTS - HACKABLE!

Weakness: - no battery meter in Destinator v7 - not sure if I'll get the advertised 5-6 hours battery

Price paid: $83, after rebates/taxes/shipping (paypal 20% + manufacturer) MSRP: $200 Included in box: - GPS unit, 3.5" screen (with 1GB unlabelled SD card) - carrying case (pretty good quality) - home/wall charger - car charger - USB cable (charge with computer) - window mount (_much_ better than the pdr135 mount I have) - cd manual - warranty card - quick start poster Software: - Windows CE .NET...

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Pharos GPS

Strengths: light, fast, long battery life, TTS, value for money

Weakness: navigation s/w, cheap easy-scratchable plastic, mount

I bought this GPS as a gift to my in-law. Well, in my viewpoint, the main drawback is s/w. Routing is strange, maps are not up-to-date, and number of POI is not impressive. Some people reported installing better version of s/w like iGO, but you'll need to remove SD card, which is sealed by warranty label. While I don’t like its user interface, my wife and mother-in-law found somehow like it. So...

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Pharos Drive GPS 150 GPS

Strengths: TTS

Weakness: Slow to aquire signal

Once this GPS gets a signal (which takes mine at least 2 minutes when booting up), it works really well. The Maps and directions are accurate. I've used it all over town where I know the best routes to go, and the GPS usually picks the same route. The text to speech works great.

Awesome GPS at low price

Strengths: Low Price Text to speech slim design

Weakness: not found yet

5-stars as one of the best in this price range, since it does what it's supposed to do,Its Text to speech feature is very good at this price range...Now i'm feeling confident in going at any new place.

Good GPS for a cheap price!!

Strengths: Has all features compared to expensive GPS Navigators

Weakness: Text-to-Speech is not as it sounds and cannot take the SD card out w/0 voiding the warranty.

This GPS system is great when compared to the high-end models from Garmin and TomTom. The Text-to-Speech is good but it does not pronunce the 'Exit' names off the highway. This is sort of confusing to me. Also, I cannot take SD card out w/o voiding the warranty. I purchased this at Fry's for $99(after rebate)..its a bargain and can't complain for what it does. The software is not intuitive and...

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Pharos GPS 150

Strengths: Very Portable, very accurate!

Weakness: smaller screen, might be hard to see for people with bad eyesight.

For the price, this is a very good gps system. I would highly recommend it to other people. My co-worker is going to purchass the same product. My mother-in-law has the Garmin and she paid over twice the price. This system is of equal operation.

Pharos Drive 150 GPS (PDR150)

Strengths: - Compact, light - Text-to-speech street name announcements - Includes car/AC/USB adaptors, windshield mount kit, case, stylus - Long battery life - Configurable map screen

Weakness: - Volume must be almost full before street announcements are audible in car - When compared side-by-side with comparable Garmin unit, the Pharos had slight update delay when making turns

This GPS unit does quite well, even outside mid-to-large citys' limits. First used at inlaws who live outside Weatherford, TX, and it could navigate the smaller roads around their home. When used side-by-side a similar Garmin unit, both operated about the same except the Garmin had quicker screen refreshes when taking turns (windy roads or turning onto another street). Slight negative was...

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pharos 150 review

Strengths: small good routing clear directions

Weakness: not so loud voice controls not always intuitive

very nice small unit that does its job well. Comes with nice travel case, as well as car, wall, and computer charger cables. Bought this as a gift, and it was very well received. Tried it several days now and it always was very accurate with getting you where you need to go.