At $299.99 (list), the Pharos Drive GPS 250 is quite a bargain, especially since it hardly seems like an entry-level model. This inexpensive device comes with many of the features found in premium, higher-priced personal navigators, such a large, 4.3-inch screen, a sensitive, top-notch satellite receiver, and text-to-speech functionality. Still, as you might expect, the GPS 250 isn’t completely without limitations: You get only a small POI database and support for just a few spoken languages.
The GPS 250 comes equipped with a widescreen 4.3-inch, 480-by-272-pixel display and runs navigation software on top of Windows CE 4.2. The device, built around a 266-MHz Freescale MX21 processor, is equipped with 8MB of ROM and 64MB of SDRAM. Powered by a 1,200-mAh lithium-polymer battery that’s good for about 5 to 7 hours of operation, the GPS 250 measures 3.3 by 4.8 by 1 inches (HWD) and weighs 7.4 ounces. At an inch thick, the 250 isn’t exactly svelte; the thinnest units on the market, like the Garmin nüvi 760 and the Mio DigiWalker C520, are a full quarter inch thinner.
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