Description



Pharos 600e GPS phone is impressive in this regard. Its fashionable design and sleek form factor are at home in your purse or pocket, but its ability to tell you where the next restaurant is makes putting it on your dashboard a requirement for any trip. Combining navigation, entertainment and office productivity tools into a single, portable device, the Pharos presents the Pharos 600e GPS Phone. The Pharos GPS Phone 600e comes equipped with a large color touchscreen which can quickly translate into a full QWERTY keyboard. Other key features include a 2 mega pixel camera, Windows Mobile 5.0, quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, WiFi 802.11b/g, tri-band FM radio, and a voice recorder.

Features

The Pharos GPS Phone 600e runs Window Mobile 5 Pocket PC Phone Edition. The 600e also supports Microsoft's Direct Push technology for wireless synchronization with Microsoft Exchange and your Outlook e-mail, calendar, contacts, and tasks. In addition to the standard PIM tools, Pharos throws in a handy utility called Spb Menu that does a better job of presenting and organizing the device's apps. Other goodies include a calculator, a voice recorder, a download agent, a program manager, two games (Bubble Breaker and Solitaire), and an FM radio.

The 600e is a quad band GSM world phone with an address book that's only limited by the available memory (the SIM card holds an additional 250 contacts). As with most Windows Mobile smart phones, there's room in each entry for multiple numbers, e-mail, IM, and physical addresses, notes, birthdays, and more. For caller ID purposes, you can assign a photo, a group ID, or one of eight ringtones. The 600e also has a speakerphone, a vibrate mode, voice commands, a SIM toolkit, and a utility called EZDial for easier contact search and dialing.

Wireless options on the 600e include Bluetooth 2.0 and Wi-Fi (802.11b/g), and the onboard wireless managers help you get connected to Bluetooth devices or the Web. The phone supports a number of Bluetooth profiles, including wireless headsets, Bluetooth stereo headsets, hands-free kits, dial-up networking, file transfer, and vCard exchange. As far as Wi-Fi, the device was able to find and connect to our test access point, and we were able to easily get on the Web within minutes. The 600e is equipped with a GPS radio, its functions are limited without the inclusion of navigation software. Pharos does include a copy of Microsoft Streets & Trips 2005, so you can transfer maps from your PC to the smart phone. However, it will not give you real-time driving directions. The 600e is equipped with a 400MHz processor and has 128MB ROM/64MB SDRAM with about 40MB of user-accessible storage and 28MB for running programs.

Specifications

This Pocket PC is equipped much like other Wi-Fi enabled Windows Mobile smart phones, but with GPS capabilities added. Quad-band (850/900/1800/1900) GPRS, EDGE, Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC Edition, 2 mega pixel digital camera (1200x1600 pixels) with GPS location stamping capability, 802.11b/g, Lithium-Ion Polymer swappable battery, Bluetooth 2.0 with enhanced data rate (EDR), SiRF Star III GPS receiver with Ostia navigation software, FM Radio (when using included wired headset).

Conclusion

The Pharos GPS Phone 600e is an advanced, expensive, touch-screen phone running a pared down version of a popular OS..