Pharos 150 3.5-Inch Widescreen Portable Drive GPS Navigator with Text-To-Speech (Black) | 
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| Brand: Pharos
Category: CE
List Price: $149.99
Buy New: $99.00
You Save: $50.99 (34%)
New (28) Used (2) from $90.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  55 reviews
Sales Rank: 2704
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Native Resolution: 320 x 240
Display Size: 3.5
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 3.9 x 1 x 3.3
MPN: PDR150
Model: PDR150
UPC: 818948002525
EAN: 0818948002525
ASIN: B000XX4M26
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Large 3.5" 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 maps; NAVTEQ ON BOARD | | • | Built-in ultra sensitive 20-channel SiRFStarII GPS for fast and accurate positioning |
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Product Description
Getting lost is easy. Pharos helps make finding your way even easier. Using intuitive text-to-speech technology, the Pharos Drive GPS 150 makes it easy to keep your eyes on the road when looking for a specific address. It will help you find you way with voice prompts and turn-by-turn spoken instructions that include name of the street or highway. The large 3.5" color touch screen LCD clearly displays the preloaded U.S. street level maps and navigation routing.
"From the Manufacturer (June 19, 2008)"
Designed for portability, the Pharos Drive GPS 150 offers just the right balance of power, portability and price for newcomers to GPS receivers. Measuring less than an inch thin and under 4 inches wide, the compact Drive GPS 150 is great for driving with the included car mount and it can be easily slipped into a purse, briefcase, or backpack for usage while on foot. 
The Pharos Drive GPS 150 in black. |
The Drive GPS 150 features a 3.5-inch color screen, quick route calculation, and turn-by-turn directions with voice prompts. It comes with everything needed to use the unit, including both car and AC power cords and a 1 GB Secure Digital (SD) memory card that's pre-loaded with street level maps of the United States. This model comes in black, but it's also available in pink and blue.The Drive GPS 150's intuitive navigation software offers text-to-speech functionality that guides you with turn-by-turn, voice-prompted directions. If you miss a turn along the route, the Drive GPS 150 automatically recalculates a route and gets you back on track, pronouncing the names of the streets along the way. If you're on foot, the Drive GPS 150 provides a pedestrian mode that plots routes with pedestrian options and preferences in mind. 
The Drive GPS measures less than 1 inch thin and weighs 6.4 ounces (black model shown). | 
The 3.5-inch color LCD clearly indicates your route. |
The highly sensitive, 20-channel SiRFStarIII GPS receiver provides a rapid time-to-first-fix positioning and can acquire a signal even in urban canyons and under dense foliage. It's matched with a 32-bit CPU processor for quick recalculation of your route should you get off the original course. The 3.5-inch color touchscreen LCD has a 320 x 240-pixel resolution and a color depth of 16.7 million colors for a clear display of the preloaded U.S. street level maps and navigation routing. You can choose to see a two-dimensional or three-dimensional map adjusted specifically for day time or night time conditions. When you begin a selected journey, the Drive GPS 150 provides an overview of your complete route, the total driving distance to your destination, the estimated travel time, and the complete destination address. If you don't have a street address, you can simply navigate to a point on the map by manipulating the touchscreen and selecting it as your destination--the Drive GPS 150 will then calculate your route. The Drive GPS 150 also comes with a Points of Interest (POI) list that collects thousands of interesting or useful places organized by easy-to-find categories, from shopping centers to restaurants to gas stations. And many of the categories have subcategories to help narrow the choices--for example, under gas stations you'll find names of particular brands. Other features include: - Save favorite addresses and points of interest to the Address Book
- Your most recent 64 locations are saved in the Recent Places menu for easy access
- Specify certain types of roads that you want to exclude from route calculations
- Internal speaker with 3.5mm stereo earphone jack
- Mini USB connector
- 1200 mAh rechargeable lithium-polymer batter with 5 to 7 hours of continuous operation; 4-hour recharging tiem
- Dimensions: 3.94 x 3.31 x 0.95 inches (WxHxD)
- Weight: 6.4 ounces
What's in the Box
Pharos 150 GPS device, 1 GB SD memory card, USB cable, car mount, car charger, AC adapter, travel bag, printed quick-start guide, CD with manual
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| Customer Reviews: Read 50 more reviews...
 Loaded with features but failing miserably in a few areas January 8, 2009
I have used this product now for sometime and this is my feeling
Advantages:
1. Audio is very clear
2. 2D and 3D maps
3. Touch screen is very sensitive
4. Pen available to use(Very Handy)
5. Night Vision is good
6. Text to speech
7. Memory capacity is good and hence prompt response
8. Customizing Alerts on turns and speed limits
Disadvantages:(Very Painful)
1. It is very difficult to find the exit in freeways while traveling at high speeds. If there are 4 bifurcations on the freeway, in the GPS it shows all the 4 exits and confuses me which one i have to take in that instant.
2. Believe me i missed the exits very badly and had to go round and round while driving through freeways to new places.
3 It doesnt ask for Zipcode
It's NO Garmin January 6, 2009
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.
 More than expected January 1, 2009
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.
Good Value Priced GPS December 27, 2008
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.
Pleasantly surprised: good GPS for little $$$ November 25, 2008
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!
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