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E-TEN’s glofiish X500 is an accomplished Pocket PC with GPS antenna, Wi-Fi and FM radio among the standout features. It has good battery life and a range of software extras generous enough to make some other Pocket PC vendors blush.

If you are keen to try navigation but not necessarily keen to buy dedicated navigation kit, your other option is to tag route-planning capability onto a smart phone or PDA. The ideal in this situation is to choose kit with GPS already built in. That’ll save you the bother of carrying a separate GPS antenna and it’ll give you true all-in-one navigation.

At ￡429 from Expansys, the glofiish X500 isn’t a pocket-money toy, and you will have to allow for route-planning software on top of that, but it does do just about everything a Pocket PC with built-in navigation could be expected to do.

E-TEN says the glofiish X500 is the world’s thinnest Pocket PC phone, GPS and Wi-Fi device. That may be true, but we wouldn’t suggest you buy on that basis alone — something thinner is sure to come along fairly soon. For the record, the glofiish X500 measures 60mm by 113mm by 16mm and weighs 146g.

The glofiish X500 is an attractive slate grey colour, with buttons ranged around the screen and designed to look slightly ’70’s retro — we rather like it. The buttons glow a mix of blue, green and red when one is pressed, and in the dark they look rather appealing.

Buttons which start the GPS running and link to the Windows Mobile Home screen are above the main display, and beneath it are Call and End buttons and two softkeys. Dragged a few millimetres down from this bottom set of buttons is the navigation key. This is a little more awkward to use than some, but you are likely to spend most of your time prodding at the touchscreen rather than using this key anyway.

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Posted on September 11th, 2008 by admin
Filed under: Gps Navigator