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One of the features of the GPS I enjoyed was the voice navigation. I found myself selecting my home address as the destination when heading home. I thought voice navigation would be a nuisance at first but it was nice to hear a voice directing me home late at night, sort of like my car was talking to me. I actually miss not having that in my other vehicle when I drive. When driving to one of my other editors house the software took me a direction that I had not considered before that turned out to be more efficient. The more I used the mapping software the more dependent I became on its guidance. You can select Points of Interest such as gas stations of your choice, ATM’s, bus stations, etc. This was a cool feature as I could with a glance find a Union 76 station off of the freeway that I would never have know existed. My Mini only gets Union 76 Premium fuel and now I can spot them literally miles away. Same goes for Thai restaurants and every Winery in the area; I was surprised at how many wineries there are in the Seattle Metro area. It turns out Pacific Northwesters not only like our Micro Brews and Coffee but Wine as well.

Lets take a look at some benchmarks to how this device performance against a couple of competitors. 


  

     
    HP iPAQ 2215 (2003, 400Mhz)
    Toshiba e400/405, (2003, 
    PXA261, 300MHz)
    Mitac Mio 168 w/GPS
  

  

    
    
    Spb Benchmark index
    
    1146
    1054
    1112
  

  

    
    CPU index
    
    1784
    1309
    1366
  

  

    
    File 
    system index
    
    1126
    788
    858
  

  

    
    Graphics 
    index
    567
    
    1437
    1359
  

  

    
    
    ActiveSync index
    2155
     
    
    2168
  

  

    
    Platform 
    index
    
    1204
    958
    997
  

  

    
    Write 1 
    MB file (KB/sec)
    
    1257
    935
    944
  

  

    
    Read 1 MB 
    file (MB/sec)
    
    27
    18.5
    20.6
  

  

    
    Copy 1 MB 
    file (KB/sec)
    
    1262
    849
    943
  

  

    
    Write 10 
    KB x 100 files (KB/sec)
    
    905
    619
    639
  

  

    
    Read 10 
    KB x 100 files (MB/sec)
    
    9.78
    6.77
    7.41
  

  

    
    Copy 10 
    KB x 100 files (KB/sec)
    
    799
    526
    537
  

  

    
    Directory 
    list of 2000 files (thousands of files/sec)
    
    19.6
    14
    15.8
  

  

    
    Internal database 
    read (records/sec)
    
    1339
    1063
    1117
  

  

    
    Graphics test: DDB 
    BitBlt (frames/sec)
    52.3
    
    201
    147
  

  

    
    Graphics test: DIB 
    BitBlt (frames/sec)
    
    22.8
    20.3
    17
  

  

    
    Graphics test: 
    GAPI BitBlt (frames/sec)
    60
    169
    
    171
  

  

    
    Pocket Word 
    document open (KB/sec)
    
    100
    48.2
    56.4
  

  

    
    Pocket 
    Internet Explorer HTML load (KB/sec)
    
    7.96
    5.83
    5.55
  

  

    
    Pocket 
    Internet Explorer JPEG load (KB/sec)
    
    208
    166
    177
  

  

    
    File Explorer 
    large folder list (files/sec)
    
    564
    444
    479
  

  

    
    Compress 1 MB 
    file using ZIP (KB/sec)
    
    225
    172
    197
  

  

    
    Decompress 
    1024x768 JPEG file (KB/sec)
    
    606
    456
    460
  

  

    
    Arkaball 
    frames per second (frames/sec)
    51.4
    103
    
    105
  

  

    
    CPU test: 
    Whetstones MFLOPS (Mop/sec)
    
    0.077
    0.057
    0.057
  

  

    
    CPU test: 
    Whetstones MOPS (Mop/sec)
    
    55.4
    41.5
    41.5
  

  

    
    CPU test: 
    Whetstones MWIPS (Mop/sec)
    
    5.02
    3.77
    3.76
  

  

    
    Memory test: 
    copy 1 MB using memcpy (MB/sec)
    
    102
    70.4
    72.4
  

  

    
    ActiveSync: 
    upload 1 MB file (KB/sec)
    201
     
    
    221
  

  

    
    ActiveSync: 
    download 1 MB file (KB/sec)
    
    356
     
    267


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There you have it, beauty and brains in a small package. The Mio 168 outperforms the comparably equipped Toshiba e400 with the same CPU and keeps pace with the faster equipped HP iPAQ 2215 in many tests. Priced at $499 it puts it in the middle of the pack for price and performance but with the innovative edge of having built in GPS.

Pros:
Innovative features
Size
Performance

Cons:
Lack of built in wireless
Included cable not sync-n-charge

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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