Harmon Kardon Guide & Play GPS-500 Review

CNet has a review up of the Harmon Kardon Guide Play GPS-500, the GPS unit from the makers of high end audio equipment. Overall they rate this wide-ish screen product “Very Good”, which is generous for them. The unit combines navigation and audio/video playback with a pretty long list of compatible file types. The unit uses a Centrality Atlas II GPS chip and they report that the unit took a long time to acquire satellites both from a cold state (10 minutes), and a warm state (longer than competing products).
The Harmon Kardon Guide & Play GPS-500 does a reasonable job of playing audio and movies, but the limited speaker capabilities of a handheld unit impair things. When using headphones the unit does well.
Overall, the unit appears to have a nice set of features and is nicely designed. It uses TeleAtlas maps as its mapset. Overall, in this review and other feedback I have heard on the unit, its interface design is a bit above average for GPS units from electronics companies.
Read the entire review at CNet
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Posted by Scott Martin at July 17, 2007 6:40 AM