Pharos Traveler GPS 525 FlexiSkin The Soft Low Profile Case Coral Pink
April 2, 2009 by Gadget Girl
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Pharos Traveler GPS 525 FlexiSkin The Soft Low Profile Case Coral Pink
Enhanced with new SmoothTexture! SmoothTexture makes the FlexiSkin feel softer to the touch and reduces surface dust.BoxWave’s FlexiSkin is a new soft case that gives you complete usability of your Pharos Traveler GPS 525 while it’s protected! It comes in your choice of five colors: Frosted Clear, Future Blue, Coral Pink, Aluminum Grey, and Smoke Grey. This lets you customize the color of your device!FlexiSkin is durable, soft to the touch, and can stretch and flex to help cushion your Pharos Traveler GPS 525 from bumps and hard knocks. Usable and protective, FlexiSkin the new protective case for your Pharos Traveler GPS 525!
Pharos 150 Drive 3 5 Inch Touchscreen TTS Portable GPS Unit Pink
January 30, 2009 by Gadget Girl
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Pharos 150 Drive 3 5 Inch Touchscreen TTS Portable GPS Unit Pink
The Pharos Drive GPS 150 makes it easy to keep your eyes on the road when looking for a specific address with voice prompts and turn-by-turn spoken instructions that include name of the street or highway (Text-to-Speech technology). The large 3.5″ color touch screen LCD clearly displays the preloaded U.S. street level maps and navigation routing.preferences in mind.
User Ratings and Reviews
2 Stars It’s NO Garmin
While this GPS works fine, it is NO GARMIN!
I realize that I paid quite a bit less for this, but it is not NEARLY as user friendly as the Garmin is.
I gave this to my partner for her birthday. She struggled to use it, as it doesn’t obey all commands, is difficult to navigate thru the screens, etc.
I received a Garmin GPS for Christmas.
WOW! Mine puts hers to shame…and me too…as I gave it for a gift.
5 Stars More than expected
This unit is packed with features. Many more than a different brand I bought earlier this year. The cost is amazing for the features. I have learned that GPS’s are not perfect, this one takes a few minutes to get started, but they all have a few quirks. So far it has been reliable and accurate. Recommended.
5 Stars Good Value Priced GPS
I received the Pharos Drive GPS 150 as a gift, and figured out what a deal my friend got on it. For the cost of lower-quality or obsolete models floating around, the Pharos 150 is a fairly good GPS unit featuring Destinator v7 software and Q4 2006 maps and points of interest. Destinator has a fairly simple learning curve, that most people will figure out after a half hour of playing with it, and a few trial trips. It’s quick and simple to program in custom locations, and the turn-by-turn navigation is pretty good. The interface is easier with a stylus (one is included with the unit), though it’s definitely possible to use with fingertips.
Like most GPS units, you’ll have to use your own common sense when choosing the best route for you, but the Pharos GPS 150 does a great job of getting you in the general vicinity of an address or waypoint. It offers good 2D & 3D maps for manual navigation, and is indispensable when darkness, distance or bad weather make reading roadsigns difficult. The voice-to-text is fairly good, giving clear turn-by-turn instructions with advanced warning. It’s also quick to recalculate routes, when you make a change, miss a turn or hit a detour. I’ve gotten adequate signals in some dense woods or heavy fog, that would have rendered my older hand-held consumer Garmin units inoperable.
It lacks real-time traffic and construction information, it won’t accept coordinates (geocaching is out), and the default maps and points of interest are from late 2006 – but all the other features definitely make it an overall good value. Although I could load other GPS software (which voids the warranty), it was laborious to continuously circumvent the ROM that rewrites any changes to the autoexec. But, I genuinely like Destinator, after becoming familiar with it. The Pharos Drive GPS 150 is comparable to GPS units that cost a bit more. The lower cost makes you feel a more at-ease, leaving it in your glovebox or a bag. I’m definitely satisfied with using the Pharos 150 for street navigation, and appreciate the low cost.
4 Stars Pleasantly surprised: good GPS for little $$$
After a year’s use, I’m still pleased with the Pharos 150 GPS.
I mount it in various cars with a matching pair of 3″ long self-adhesive Velcro strips stuck to the bottom edge. This GPS receives the satellite signal well enough to work dependably when positioned below the top of the dash and in front of the transparent instrument cluster or atop the steering column a few inches toward the driver from the instrument cluster… easy to see when driving and less obvious to potential thieves in parking lots.
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Maps have been reasonably accurate; it seldom gives me erroneous directions. Easy to use.
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For night driving, I turn the brightness down to 10% (annoying to do each time because it resets to 100% when turned off/on and it takes several separate button pushes.) It’d be better to simply have a neutral density (grey) transparent plastic filter to attach at night with Velco to the display: that’d be faster, have better light-reduction, and be easier to use.
Amazon is selling a great product at this price point!
4 Stars Good for money
I have this GPS since 2 months, and quite satisfied with it. The only concern is it does not show up the battery life. and dont show up the option to exclude the toll root.
its good for money $90.
