[gps-talkusers] Re: extra, extra, read all about it!

  • From: "ricky prevatte" <rprevatte@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:58:15 -0500

Mine would I thought.  I can listen to songs and I think text with it
asleep.

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Hi Alex. The only reason I'd see a need to lock it is if your phone was in 
your pocket and it was automatically announcing things-- like the Braille 
note does... But isn't there a way to have it run while it's locked? Can't 
you use read-to-go when the IPhone is locked?
Hope and beignet
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Hall" <mehgcap@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 10:13 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: extra, extra, read all about it!


> Yes, locking the screen would be a problem, but how often does that
> actually happen - if you're using the phone to navigate, why would you
> lock it? I don't have an iPhone, I have an iPod, so I am honestly
> curious about this one.
>
> For maps, you could download right on the phone I would imagine, which
> seems like a good option to me - just download overnight while you are
> on wifi and there you go. Alternatively, you could just connect to
> google or some other service and use their data. This, of course, has
> the advantage of being more up to date, but requires a connection
> (though loss of a connection also means loss of gps positioning, if I
> understand things right, so losing one nullifies the other anyway). I
> don't know, but these are interesting things to think about.
>
> On 2/22/12, Mike Arrigo <n0oxy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Unless I'm missing something, for this to work on the iphone, the app 
>> will
>> need to rely on voiceover to provide the information which means the 
>> screen
>> can't be locked, or the app will need to provide its own tts engine which

>> of
>> course must be licensed. This is because, for what reason I'm not sure,
>> Apple does not provide an api for third party apps to use the voices that
>> are already included on the phone, it would certainly make things more
>> efficient if they did. Android would not have this restriction. As far as
>> maps, for IOS, the app would need to provide a way to download the maps 
>> for
>> each area, similar to the way navigon does this. On Android, this is also

>> an
>> option, although maps could also be downloaded and copied directly to the
>> memory card. That is one major thing I do not like about IOS, you can't
>> connect it to your computer and have it just show up as a drive where you
>> can copy files straight away.
>> On Feb 22, 2012, at 10:17 AM, Howard Kaufman wrote:
>>
>>> I am waiting to choose a phone, based on what Sendero does.  The biggest
>>> thing is, that sendero still gives automati information with out having 
>>> to
>>> interact with the phone.  GPS means travelling, cane in one hand, ears 
>>> on
>>> the environment and mind on processing the information it receives. 
>>> That
>>> means to be useful as a mobility aid, gps has to automatically tell you
>>> the information you will need before you need it.  That would make voice
>>> control with in the operating platform of the phone in to a useful
>>> feature. Unfortunately, microsoft is very late to this party.
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