Last year when I had my Nokia 7610, I tried out the Wayfinder GPS. Even though some Blind people maybe swear by it to me it was no use unless of course it was me with my pacing when walking with it and my first time using GPS. Next year I am thinking of going for a system which may be more user friendly for the Blind but don't know which one to go for, Braillenote GPS or Trekker. With Braillenote GPS, I have the advantage of at least knowing part of the system with me already using the Braillenote and of course with that I only need the GPS as an accessory to it. I also feel I can type fairly quickly on the Perkins style keyboard. However my Braillenote is the 32 cell display so it is less portable than Trekker and looking at the Trekker user guide it appears the Battery in the PDA can be changed easily unlike maybe with the Braillenote but apart from a slight look at one that I know someone has got one I have not actually had my hands on the Trekker PDA My father thinks I should perhaps go for the Trekker as I would have two pieces of equipment, one for backup if the other broke down so I could continue to organise my life etc ie keep appointments but I am not fully convinced as I have read how slow Trekker might be when entering data for a route and he did seem to think I seemed to struggle with entering text in my 7610 mobile phone. Also there is the problems of not knowing the layout and possibly paying out a lot more which could be used to just upgrade a system which I already have by just adding the GPS reciever to the Braillenote. What would anyone suggest? How could I go about getting a demo of both before I decide? Would the person demonstrating the systems to me have to for example tempoarily install the GPS software on my Braillenote tempoarily when demoing it to me?
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