[gps-talkusers] FW: Preorder Mobile Geo, a GPS solution for mainstream devices,and get a discount!
- From: Kevin Chao <kevinchao89@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 12:56:50 -0700
I think that many of you will be excited to read the announcement from Code
Factory below.
There is an interview that Blind Bargains did with Chris Grabowski,
technical support specialist for Sendero Group. I think that this interview
gives a nice overview of the product and demonstrates how it works, what the
interface is like, and how it may differ from the Sendero GPS or Sense Nav.
Mobile Geo looks to only be in Alpha, so it is still several months out
before being a final release.
Thanks,
Kevin
I would encourage you to visit the Chaos World of Assistive Technology Blog
at:
http://www.chaosat.wordpress.com/
Postings are dealing with the latest and greatest happenings, tips and
tricks and other items of interest.
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Subject: Preorder Mobile Geo, a GPS solution for mainstream devices,and get
a discount!
The world in your pocket: Preorder Mobile Geo now and get a 100-dollar
discount.
Discover Code Factory's powerful, flexible and innovative GPS solution at
the North American Summer conventions
Terrassa (Barcelona), June 30, 2008
Mobile Geo, the first GPS for the blind and visually impaired for mainstream
Windows Mobile Smartphones and PDAS, will be shown at the NFB and ACB
conventions. Scheduled for release in late summer, 2008, Mobile Geo will be
sold at a price of $895. If you are in the USA or Canada, don't miss the
opportunity to get a discount: Preorder before September 1, and get $100 off
the retail price. Moreover, you can get your company, school, agency or
organization to place a request along with the preorder to evaluate a
prerelease demo build in July.
Why is Mobile Geo unique?
* Unlimited Hardware compatibility
Mobile Geo is a software application that can be installed on more than 400
different models of mainstream Windows Mobile devices. Just some of the most
popular include the HTC S710, HTC Fusion and HTC Advantage, the Motorola Q
and Q9 phones, the HP iPAQ 500 and HW6900 series, the AT&T Tilt and Samsung
Blackjack II, the T-Mobile Dash, Wing and Shadow, the PPC-6800 Mogul and
Palm Treo 700WX from Sprint, the XV6800 and SMT-5800 from Verizon, as well
as dozens of devices from Bell, Telus and Rogers Wireless in Canada. You
can buy your smartphone or PDA and Bluetooth-compliant GPS receiver at your
local electronics or telephone store and benefit from the latest
technologies implemented by leading mobile device manufacturers. If you
choose a compatible mobile phone with a built-in GPS receiver, you will have
all of what you need in one device and be free to travel anywhere without
having to carry many hardware components. Explore your world with what you
already carry with you - your phone.
* Powerful and Intuitive
Mobile Geo is simple, convenient and powerful. You can:
- pinpoint your location and, if you wish to be reminded of it in the
future, mark it as a point of interest (POI),
- learn about the POIs and intersections in your immediate vicinity while
exploring that vicinity virtually on the GPS map,
- plan a route between specified points of origin and destination without
having to walk the route first in order to record it and then use it next
time,
- determine the pedestrian or vehicular route between two places, or just
get announcements about your current heading and distance to your
destination as you approach it, and
- get instructions on maneuvers to make as well as information about
waypoints along a route that you are following.
* A truly worthwhile investment
Activated by Code Factory's unique User-Centered Licensing system
(http://www.codefactory.es/UCL), the license to use the product can easily
be transferred from one device to another anytime and at no extra cost. This
allows a Mobile Geo user to upgrade to the latest in mainstream mobile
technology whenever he/she likes, rather than when it is made available by a
specialized vendor, as well, of course, as allowing the replacement of a
broken or stolen device at little or no cost.
* Flexible and practical
Through seamless integration with Code Factory's leading screen readers for
Windows Mobile, you can use Mobile Geo with speech output in different
languages and route speech to a Bluetooth headset, or access it through
input and output on more than 15 different Braille devices. You can perform
commands using just the hardware keys available on the device as well as
direct but simplified access to the Pocket PC touch screen, without need for
extra hardware to make it usable. Further, you can use your mobile device
for reading books, browsing the internet, listening to music, sending and
receiving calls and messages, and for personal information management, while
Mobile Geo runs in the background and provides information about the route
you are following.
Mobile Geo gives you the benefit of an accessible GPS solution and is
compatible with mainstream mobile devices. However, everything has been
designed, from the very beginning, for the specific needs of blind users and
blind pedestrians. Powered by GPS and mapping technology from the
award-winning Sendero Group, Mobile Geo benefits from all the know-how of
Sendero's acclaimed GPS product line, which powers the GPS solutions on many
other devices, including the very popular BrailleNote GPS.
To pre-order Mobile Geo, contact one of the following distributors:
- Sendero Group (USA): +1 530-757-6800, http://www.senderogroup.com
- Vision Cue (USA): +1 888-318-2582, at.info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
http://visioncue.com/MobileSpeak.html
- HandyTech North America (USA): +1 651-636-5184, earle@xxxxxxxxxxxx,
http://www.handytech.us
- A.T. Guys (USA): +1 989-284-7915, support@xxxxxxxxxx,
http:///www.atguys.com
- Adaptive Technology Consulting (USA): +1 978-462-3817,
gyarnall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, http://adaptivetech.net
- RL & Associates, Inc (USA): + 1 (415)512-1180, peterc@xxxxxxx,
http://www.rla.com
- FBC Solutions Foundation for Blind Children (USA): +1 (602)331-1470,
mnelson@xxxxxxxxxxx, http://www.the-fbc.org
- Vision Dynamics (USA): +1 (203) 271-1944, george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
http://visiondynamics.com
- Beyond Sight (USA): +1 303-795-6455, support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
http://beyondsight.com
- Aroga (Canada): +1 (604) 431-7997, sales@xxxxxxxxx, http://www.aroga.com
Please note that this promotion is only available to the North American
market. Stay tuned for other promotions that we will announce soon for other
interested individuals and groups worldwide.
If the company, school, or organization you represent wishes to get a quote
for bulk orders, please write to sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To learn more about Mobile Geo:
* Attend a public demonstration at the NFB convention. On Monday, June 30,
2008, from 1:00 to 2:00 and 4:00 to 5:00 pm, in the Travertine Room, Atrium
Mezzanine, Larry Lewis, President of Flying-Blind, will be demonstrating,
along with representatives from the Sendero Group, Mobile Geo.
* Drop by the booth of Sendero Group at NFB (A71) or ACB (26).
* Visit http://www.codefactory.es/MobileGeo.
About Sendero Group
http://www.senderogroup.com
Sendero Group - the GPS company - is the Developer of the first accessible
GPS and talking map software. GPS products "Powered by Sendero" software
provide access to detailed street and business location information. The
blind traveler can now be a co-pilot, not just a passive passenger in a car.
He or she can keep the taxi driver honest, enjoy hearing about the sites and
businesses being passed and know independently when to get off the bus.
Students can also chart custom routes across campus or hikers can do the
same in the woods.
Sendero staff, most of whom are visually impaired, know from personal and
professional experience that orientation and mobility skills and tools for
blind folks are key to the enjoyment and success in all walks of life.
Sendero is first and foremost "the GPS company" as well as distributing
other innovative adaptive technology.
About Code Factory
http://www.codefactory.es
Code Factory is the leading provider of screen readers, screen magnifiers,
and Braille interfaces for the widest range of mainstream mobile devices.
Our mission is to break down barriers to the accessibility of mobile
technology for the blind and visually impaired. Making accessibility means
not just simple opportunity but also flexibility and affordability!
Our accessible solutions are used in more than 50 countries and 30
languages. Among Code Factory's customers are well known organizations for
the blind such as ONCE, and carriers such as AT&T, Bouygues Telecom, SFR,
and Vodafone. We've also built strong partnerships with mainstream companies
like HP, Microsoft, and Nokia as well as leading AT companies like Baum,
Bookshare.org, HumanWare, Optelec and Sendero.
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