[gps-talkusers] Re: a brave new world

OFF TOPIC I know!

Can somebody please write me off topic about cell phones? Does Nokia really 
make a phone accessable to a totally blind person? I also heard that Verizon 
makes a cell phone that is accessable. I am confused so I need some help 
PLEASE!!!

Donald
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Myers" <dkmyers28@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 5:37 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] a brave new world


>
> Hello, Gerry,
> I think I am going to stick with my original figures here, with the 
> Maestro
> PDA at one thousand one hundred and ninety five dollars, the Trekker for 
> one
> thousand five hundred and ninety nine dollars, and the GPS maps for two
> hundred fifty dollars per state, as plainly advertised on the Visuaide 
> site.
> Perhaps you could tell us what they say when you offer them twenty three
> dollars and ninety five cents.  However, my tender ears should not hear
> things like that.  The cheapest GPS receiver I have been able to find 
> costs
> about ninety dollars.  The Trekker maps are a little pricey because I can
> buy a single CD from Garmin that covers all states and costs about one
> hundred sixty dollars.  However, that Garmin map set may not work with
> whatever screen reading software is on the Maestro.  Doesn't it run the 
> TALX
> software screen reading package?  The last I heard, which was a couple 
> years
> ago, TALX was about three hundred dollars when installed in the Nokia 9290
> cellphone and computer combined.  The 9290 is about the best thing since
> sliced bread for VI people, but I don't know if a braille display can be
> connected to it.  Those Nokia people are pretty fast, so I would not be
> surprised if they were developing a full GPS package for blind and
> deaf-blind.
>
> Regards
>
> Dick Myers

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