Not only is it interesting, but I wonder what you are using as the modifier key for your N82.
Regards, Don Oracle Don Mauck | Accessibility Evangelist Oracle Corporate Architecture Group 7700 Technology Way Denver CO 80237 Phone (303) 334-4184 Email [email protected] Green Oracle Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment -----Original Message----- From: Darren Harris [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 11:41 AM To: Michael McGhee; Robert Riddle; [email protected] Subject: RE: gps Hi, Now that's very interesting, I think you're about the first person to say that it actually works properly for a blind person. Please tell me more as I'm quite interested to hear about this. -----Original Message----- From: Michael McGhee [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 04 February 2009 18:34 To: 'Darren Harris'; 'Robert Riddle'; [email protected] Subject: RE: gps If by GPS we are talking about a navigation tool, then I use Nokia Maps which comes as standard with the Nokia N82 mobile phone. I run this with Mobile Speak, and havn't had a problem yet. You can set the navigation by address, post code or landmark, and it can be set for car journeys or walking journeys, which is useful. The software comes as a free trial, but you can then buy time at either 1, 5, 7 days, 1 month or 1 year, and it is billed to your phone. Very accessible, and very easy to use. -----Original Message----- From: Darren Harris [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 04 February 2009 05:20 To: 'Robert Riddle'; [email protected] Subject: RE: gps Hi, That's why I would have suggested access to you. I'll give you a breakdown in costs. My partner, bought me a nokia 82, for £300, they are cheaper than that now, talks, for £150, access for £259 and the gps unit that I now have for £45. now if you already have talks and a cellphone to run it on, then all you need is to spend £259 for the programme and how ever much you want to spend on a gps unit. So yes it's way way cheaper than the alternatives out there. I completely agree withy you that the price for a gps that would work for us is rather expensive and no I wouldn't justify that cost. Oh before you wonder why I got an n82, it wasn't because that's the only phone it worked with, it was because of keyboard preference. It's nicely spaced out. The buttons. hth -----Original Message----- From: Robert Riddle [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 04 February 2009 01:46 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: gps There's the question of exactly when could a blind person make use of a GPS application which runs on a laptop? I would use it while riding around in a car; and so riding in taxis or buses might be a use, other than that, you'd have to wear a backpack with the laptop (with an earphone presumably), and you still have the problem of how to control the program. Maybe voice recognition and a headset is the answer there, but there are so many good GPS options that are small, it's hard to think of a reason why this would be useful. 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