MessageActually Trekker and Sendero have always been separate products. Humanware and Sendero only partnered on the products for Braillenote. From: Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 9:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Trekker GPS App Hi Alan,
I am not sure if Humanware would be the right company to talk to. Their Trekker product utilizes Sendero’s technology and as far as I know Sendero is and has been working on a more complete GPS app geared towards the blind for some time. I believe they are funded by Seeing Eye which of course is a good thing because Seeing Eye has the money to back such a project. I used to own a Trekker Maestro about 5 years ago and while I am sure there are people who had good experiences with Humanware, their products and customer service, I was never very impressed and I have a feeling if Humanware was to come up with a GPS app they would try and charge through the nose for it. Remember Orator or whatever it was called? It was the screenreader they developed for Blackberry and even though it only worked on a few devices they were charging $450 which is more than half of the most expensive 64 Gig iPhone without contract. I bet those very likely few people who did buy it probably regretted the decision. It’s really too bad Blackberry didn’t integrate accessibility into the Blackberry 10 platform because the Z10 and Q10 really do sound like very nice phones and the initial feedback I heard has been rather positive. Anyhow, I don’t want to stray into another discussion of accessibility of other platforms and so on, but maybe somebody on the list has heard something new about Sendero’s GPS project for the iPhone and will share it. It would really be nice if they came up with a really comprehensive GPS app this year; if it had similar features to a Trekker or MobilGeo combined with the stability of the iOS platform it would really be worth something. Regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
