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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.

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.

In addition to quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE phone, the X500 features Bluetooth 2.0 and 802.11b/g Wi-Fi wireless connectivity, but no 3G or infra-red. There’s even an FM radio included. A five-way navigation pad and two soft-menu buttons sit below the screen, along with the Call and End buttons. Two more hot keys are located at the top of the unit - one is reserved for E-Ten’s GPS Viewer application and the other launches its M-Desk program manager software. Both buttons can be re-assigned to other apps if required.

E-TEN claims its Glofiish X500 to be the world’s thinnest device to combine the Pocket PC Phone Edition operating system with GPS and Wi-Fi. In the IT world very little maintains a claim of that kind for long, so what matters is how well the Glofiish X500 does its job.

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Posted on August 21st, 2008 by admin
Filed under: GPS News