[gps-talkusers] Re: the best of all worlds
- From: "gerry leary" <lgerry3@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 05:56:01 -0700
Hello Mike,
Actually we can have our cake and eat it too. The trekker is about three
ounces lighter. Secondly if we look at the market place for sighted folks,
they have GPS with PDA that is smaller then the PDA for the trekker. It has
the receiver and antenna built in. Now what if we looked at something like
that and worked on making the system accessible instead of reinventing it.
I don't know how easy this would be to do, but there is a company in England
working on making Windows CE accessible. In the beginning we were the first
to have such a GPS system, but now that the sighted world has taken the lead
maybe we the community of the blind could look at the whole thing
differently. Gerry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael May" <MikeMay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "GPS-talkusers-freelists.org" <GPS-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 10:04 AM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] the best of all worlds
> Regarding recent comments about the best of Trekker and BrailleNote in one
> system. I have to say that the one-pound BrailleNote PK with a Bluetooth
> GPS receiver weighing a couple ounces is amazingly small and the lack of
> wires is wonderful. I dare say Trekker weighs more than that altogether.
>
> Now to the issue of price. If as many blind people or their funding
> agencies bought GPS as purchased a screen reader, the price could probably
> be cut in half. The blindness market is small and GPS purchases are a
> small
> portion of an already small market. In order to have a low priced GPS, it
> will have to be an off-the-shelf mass market product. In that case, you
> will have a low price but reduced functionality and support. We just need
> to be realistic that there are trade offs between price and functionality.
> We can't have our cake and eat it too.
>
> We are hopeful that with more users out there and more education of rehab
> folks and O&M instructors, the blindness
>
> GPS market will grow so we can continue to bring you more and more
> features and maybe even lower prices.
>
> Several of us from Sendero monitor this list and we take your suggestions
> very seriously. Sendero just past its 5 year anniversary and we are very
> grateful for your customer loyalty. We have come a long way in that time
> and we look forward to more major strides over the next five years.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> Michael G. May
>
>
> CEO Sendero Group
>
> Developers and distributors of BrailleNote GPS
> Distributing BrailleNote, VoiceNote, Miniguide, The Tissot Silen-T tactile
> watch, Talks cell phone software and the ID Mate, bar code reader
>
> MikeMay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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