Pharos Trips and Pics Photo Linked Portable GPS Unit

Make and log any journey! Pharos Trips and Pics captures your location and time automatically at any interval you set. Time your training runs. Record your child's athletic event. Show that great bicycle trip with times and photos. Save the memories from a great vacation. Send the files to friends and family so they can see your photos and where and when you took the pictures. Add text to share even more information. Display your trips with photos on Google Earth or Microsoft Streets & Trips Pharos Trips and Pics automatically compensates for any difference between your camera¿s time and true GPS time, so the information is precise. Depending on the rate you set, the Pharos GPS logger can store from 1 to 45 days of times and locations. The rechargeable battery will run the unit for 24 hours. An AC charger is included in the package. Tech Support Hotline: 1-888-PHAROS-8

Pharos Trips and Pics Photo Linked Portable GPS Unit Features

¿ Sophisticated trips statistics.
Trips & Pics Express allows a non-tech savvy user to accomplish many tasks in one click, from connecting the receiver, getting the log data from it, generating trips, to launching and viewing the result in Google Earth.
Results can be presented in both Google Earth and Microsoft Streets & Trips
Record trips and geotag photos, works with any digital camera

Price: $78.49

User Reviews about Pharos Trips and Pics Photo Linked Portable GPS Unit

Pros:
* Very accurate GPS receiver.
* "Trips and Pics" software is very flexible when used in "Classic mode".
* Data can be exported into GPX format, which can then be used to set in combination with open-source GeoSetter to geotag both RAW, DNG, and JPEG photos according to metadata.
* Easy export to Google Earth is very cool.
* Very simple operation (only an on / off switch on device).
* Easy to use for novices and flexible enough for power users.

Cons
* Small amount of memory, probably no more than 8 MB, which limits the devices recording potential when away from PC to dump data. Memory is cheap nowadays. It feels like could have included 32x more memory (256 MB) for $1 more.
* Battery docks are expensive when bought directly from Pharos, so don't plan on being away from a charger if you plan to use it for 24+ hours unless you want to pony up the cash.
* Built-in JPEG geotagging support is lame. It ignores any timestamp metadata and instead just syncs up with the file create date. Took me a while to figure that out. Might work fine for novice users, but annoyed me. Use GeoSetter instead.
* Doesn't come with drivers for Vista x64. Annoying. Took me 30 minutes to find drivers.

I feel like this little device got overlooked in the market. I got one for Christmas this year, and it's easily the best gift I've received in a while. It's so much fun to take it with me when I travel or go out to take pics. It's very well priced too in my opinion. My gripes aren't really show stoppers for me, so overall, I highly recommend it. -- Easily my favorite Christmas gift in quite some time