Hello David I'm going to top post here as it will be quicker. To answer your last question first: The reason we don't want to go the iPhone route is very simple. We don't want Gordon walking down the street with his iPhone in his hand. That's like an open invitation to muggers, "Come and rob me".
There's another reason as well though. Everybody who requires social services in the UK is entitled to a "Personal Budget" to spend on services or equipment each year. How much you get depends very much upon your social worker's willingness to assist you. Gordon has been told that he will be able to get coverage from them to buy the Trekker Breeze or something like it. Based on what you've said below, I think we'll just forget about the Captain GPS totally and look at getting him the Breeze. The advantages with the Breeze over the iPhone-based solutions are that you can programme a route, including buss stops and other landmarks, and have the Breeze intuitively guide you to your destination. It wouldn't be necessary to fiddle around with virtual keyboards as it would with the iPhone. I'm sure you'll appreciate that these things are not idea for when you're out and about and have a white cane in one hand. There are other advantages too; so unless we find another solution that's better all-round than the Breeze, that's the route I think we'll go, pardon the pun. Lynne On 29 May 2012, at 11:34, David Griffith <[email protected]> wrote: • It was me who had extremely negative experiences of the Captain GPS. The inclusion of the Radio mp3 player for me was nothing but a nuisance. The volume of the radio was so low , I could not hear it but more importantly the absurd voice recognition system would interpret commands you gave it as requests for radio stations and would dump you out of GPS into various obscure radio stations. Very annoying as you had to start the GPS sequence of commands again. The basic problem is that it relies on Voice Recognition and there is no other way of inputting a destination. For me and my family it was hopeless failing to recognise even simple street names like Wood Street. I am not sure if we would have had more success if we had tried to mimic a US or German accent as I believe the device is originally German. I have aslighta slight lisps but have never had difficulty with other voice recognition systems in the past like Dragon and Via Voice. It certainly does not appear able to learn your voice. At the time I was trying to use it the support web site was also inaccessible to a screen reader for important connectivity functions. Out of interest I was considering a purchase of an I-Phone , partly for GPS functionality. Why are you not considering GPS solutions on the I-Phone? I am interested as I do not want to invest money in another solution which does not work. ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
