Is the Pharos Touchscreen Portable GPS Unit good for people with poor electronic skills?”
Nice Unit… Works as Advertised, January 31, 2008 By Zen Williston (Heavenly Valley, NV United States) – See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME) 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. Not
