[access-uk] Re: trekker breeze walk podcast

  • From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:12:10 +0100

Hi John,

Yep, twice the price of Wayfinder, and it has less than half the
functionality.  Interesting.

All the best

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
john coley
Sent: Friday 18 July 2008 19:05
To: accessUK
Subject: [access-uk] trekker breeze walk podcast

Hi everybody, I'm awaiting with interest peoples' comments now we've had 
opportunity to hear the Trekker Breeze. Judging by the comments of those on 
the walk they were less than impressed with its performance. It only 
announced one road junction, and that was it. Noannouncements of surrounding

features, pubs, theatres, etc, as Humanware claim in their blerb it will 
announce. The only ttwo things that were announced were a trash bin and the 
sight village gates, both of which had been manually entered as landmarks.
  A lady asked the question if she was going to the hospital by taxi and 
then walking back would the trekker breeze take her home. The guy from 
Humanware said it would, but the taxi would have to take the exact route 
she'd walk.
  In another part of the podcast someone asked about announcements of 
surrounding features, and one of the items consisted of a snatch of 
conversation between walkers, which the unit said was 400 feet from a road 
junction.
  Over the whole walk there were very few announcements. I take it the 
Humanware rep was sighted. The best test of it would have been for the walk 
to have been done with the blind party, without the sighted guy, just using 
the trekker breeze.
  Given how little it would seem to be able to do without being told I think

the price is excessive.
                    John.

 


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