The Pharos Drive GPS 250 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 4.3" color Touchscreen LCD clearly displays the preloaded U.S. and Canada Street Level Maps. Additional memory storage capable using SD memory card slot. Displays direction and distance of the next turn and final destination Pinpoints your destinations on right or left hand side Entire US and Canadian maps with NAVTEQ on board Millions of POIs (Points of Interest); search nearby, near destination, hotel, restaurant, gas station or Movie Theater Find your destination by address, intersection, or Points of Interest Freescale.

[..] If Pharos offered a better website with updates available for this unit, I would give it 5 stars. The slightly computerized voice does not know how to pronounce many street names so they sound strange. Screen is beautiful and mapping seems more accurate than my Garmin I-3. (But the Garmin has a much better voice). I have used GPS units of various types for about 15 years and this is the best so far for the price. You can test a route before you set out, in real time, to see how accurate it is... nice feature. Adding addresses to the address book is cumbersome and after many hours of playing with the unit, I still have not figured out how to save addresses easily. That is really the only big negative, but considering all the features and accuracy of routing, it is a keeper. It has Navteq maps and they tend to be quite accurate. [..] -- customer review

MX21 266MHz 32bit microprocessor CPU SDRAM 64MB, 8 Flash ROM Internal Memory SiRFstarIII ultra sensitive 20-channel GPS receiver 1575.42 MHz GPS Frequency Acquisition - 8 seconds Hot Start, 38 seconds Warm Start, and 45 seconds Cold Start Velocity - 0.1 meters/second Resolution - 480 x 272, 16.7 million colors Internal speaker 1W with 3.5mm stereo earphone jack Continuous operation time 5-7 hours, Charging time 3-4 hours Rechargeable Li-Polymer Battery 1200mAh Interface - 1 SD/MMC socket and 1 Mini USB connector Power Source - Mini USB connector DC 5.0V/500mAh Operating System - Windows CE. net 4.2 Dimensions - Width 4.80 x Height 3.31 x Depth 0.95 Weight - 0.45 pounds

Features:

• Large 4.3" TFT LCD with 16.7 million colors
• Fast route calculation by 32-bit CPU processor
• Text-To-Speech; turn-by-turn directions with voice prompts announcing the street name
• Entire US and Canadian maps; NAVTEQ ON BOARD Millions of POI's; search nearby, near destination, or in a city
• Built-in ultra sensitive 20-channel SiRFStarII GPS for fast and accurate positioning

Price: $189.00

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