Pharos Drive GPS 250 is inexpensive with its $299.99 price tag. This entry level GPS device has features that are found in much higher priced personal navigators in the market. It has a 4.3-inch screen, a sensitive, top-notch satellite receiver, and text-to-speech functionality. Though with it, you will get an outdated database and support for a few spoken languages. Its database contains 1 million points of interest from the US, including Hawaii and Alaska, and Canada. This is fewer compared to other GPS navigators. Its main menu is simple with only three icons. When you choose the Go icon, you can then input your destination and it will direct you to the quickest route towards it. Although the 250 doesn’t have media players and a Bluetooth phone interface, it tells you the street names, something that other navigators can’t do. The reviewer recommends the Pharos Drive GPS 250 for those who are looking for a cheap, simple GPS navigator.

Priced at $299, the Pharos Drive GPS 250 can be considered as a budget priced GPS unit. It does give you features rarely found on GPS units of that price range: a 4.3-inch screen and street name pronunciation. The bad part? The reviewer said that even with that screen space, it is poorly used by the unit. Also, with only 1.2 million POIs, it pales against other units with the same price range. Though it does not have extras such as Bluetooth, a media player, and live traffic, it does give you the nifty ability to set what roads to avoid. When it comes to the actual navigation, the reviewer wasn’t thrilled: from the not-so-responsive touch screen to the slow route calculations. Directions given aren’t always accurate either, and rerouting will commence seconds later. The reviewer stated that rerouting times were on par with other units. If you are looking for a midrange GPS unit with a large screen to boot, then the Drive GPS 250 may just be for you.