[gps-talkusers] Re: Another suggestion for future upgrades
- From: "Martin, Terry" <voila@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 16:59:05 -0400
Greetings All:
I haven't submitted any requests to this list, I just monitor it. However,
I'd like to say that your ideas are exciting. This is a great exchange of
ideas. Keep up the great work. I would like very much to get into GPS. I
was selling Sendero's system for a while until I started changing the focus
of my company. I'd like to get back into it again in hopes of carrying
around a smaller system. When I was selling it, I was carrying around a
10-pound notebook, a Metrobook. When the BrailleNote came out with GPS on
it, that was getting closer to what I wanted to carry around. Ideally, I'd
love to have a standard, off-the-shelf accessible PDA with a fold-up
external keyboard from Targus. I'd like to have Sendero's GPS system on it
and be fully accessible with speech. The PDA and fold up keyboard could fit
in a sports coat pocket.
Mike, have you thought about putting your system on a commercial PDA and
making it very price competitive? I'm thinking that a good PDA is around
$250 to $300. The cost of an external keyboard the last time I looked (a
while ago) was around $99. Then the cost of the GPS software and hardware.
I'm not sure what that is, but maybe you could get the system priced around
$900 to $1100.
Whoever came up with the idea about linking the GPS to the different city
bus systems is a cool idea, really cool. Thumbs up on that one. Take care
and keep the exchange going. Have a nice rest of the weekend.
________________________________________________
Terry A. Martin
VOILA Technology, Inc. -- President
54 Castle Road
Rochester, NY 14623
Phone: (585) 321-1451 *** NEW AREA CODE IS 585 ***
FAX: (585) 321-1451
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Email: voila@xxxxxxxxx
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Peggy Kern" <kernsac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 4:26 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Another suggestion for future upgrades
> Another thing I'd like to see in future upgrades of the BrailleNote GPS
> would be the ability to key in a search in our user.poi editing, so that
we
> could move directly to a specific POI to rename it or delete it or
> whatever. Sometimes I'll no longer need a POI, or I'll notice an error in
> what I keyed that I didn't notice at first. By then, I might have added
> several POI's since then, so it's a pain to go through all the POI's until
> I find it, just to edit it. Some kind of search where I could key in the
> POI name and be taken directly to it would be wonderful.
>
> Hmmm, also what about two types of user.poi files: one for personal POI's
> that are only meaningful to us (friends' houses, landmarks, etc), and the
> other for POI's we might want to share with others in the monthly
> update? Then there could be separate commands for saving to the
> personal.poi or the shared.poi files. If we've made additions to our
> shared.poi file during a given month, we could send that as an attachment
> to Sendero, then delete that entry once we've installed the monthly
> user.poi file for the following month. And maybe there could be a way to
> move or copy a POI from one file to the other, in case we accidentally
save
> it to the wrong file or something? Just some brainstorming on ways we
> could get more POI sharing going on. I know I'd be willing to share some
> of my POI's if it didn't involve jumping through editing hoops to only
give
> POI's of interest to others and not locations of private homes of
> friends. <grin>
>
> Peggy
>
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