[talks-uk] Re: RNIB Bashing!
- From: "Alex Stone" <alex.stone@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:20:01 -0000
Mind you, Cobolt are just as guilty of creating watches with roosters!
Cheers
Alex
-----Original Message-----
From: talks-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:talks-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Barbara Wilson
Sent: 14 November 2008 09:15
To: talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [talks-uk] Re: RNIB Bashing!
Ah but Matt, what would they do with all their roosters then? I wonder if
they breed them internally or if they buy them in as and when required?
Barbara
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Brown" <matthew_brown@xxxxxxx>
To: <talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 11:33 PM
Subject: [talks-uk] Re: RNIB Bashing!
>I just can't understand why RNIB and various other commercial companies
>haven't cottoned on to the idea that not all blind people are
>stereo-typical dark glasses, white stick and nasty tacky plastic rooster
>touting talking watch kind of people! None of the talking watches available
>are particularly sexy to look at lets face it, especially not compared to
>watches for fully sighted people, not even the metal ones.
>
> I've seen some incredibly sexy rectangular face watches for fully sighteds
> that just look like they're a continuation of the wrist strap, and
> something like that would be really nice with a voice.
>
> I know someone is bound to say that the components required to make a
> watch talk are too bulky for such a design, but that's utter nonsense! The
> components can be made to fit a much smaller housing than the talking
> watch housings currently available.
>
> Matt
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Darren Harris" <darren_g_harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 5:09 PM
> Subject: [talks-uk] Re: RNIB Bashing!
>
>
> Oh you mean that stupid excuse for a mobile phone, that is so
> rediculously expensive, so revolutionary that you can't even text
> properly on it? I looked at one and all I wanted to do when I saw it was
> to put my foot through it. What a peace of junk of I ever did see one!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: talks-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:talks-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eleanor Burke
> Sent: 13 November 2008 17:06
> To: talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [talks-uk] Re: RNIB Bashing!
>
>
> OMG yes I had forgotten about those.
>
> Eleanor
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Barbara Wilson" <barkingbabs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 5:00 PM
> Subject: [talks-uk] Re: RNIB Bashing!
>
>
>> Hmm, that rooster really gets on my nerves. Still, guess it's not
>> quite as
>> bad as the farmyard animals on their mobile phone!
>>
>> Barbara
>>
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Neil Barnfather - TalkNav" <talks@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 4:50 PM
>> Subject: [talks-uk] RNIB Bashing!
>>
>>
>> Barbra,
>>
>> More to the point why do they insist on making the Alarms and clock
>> announcements so dam noisy! We're blind not deaf after all!
>>
>>
>>
>> Neil Barnfather
>> WFA List Administrator
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: talks-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:talks-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> On Behalf Of Barbara Wilson
>> Sent: 13 November 2008 12:53
>> To: talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [talks-uk] Re: moving talks
>>
>> Probably playing with all those clocks they make. Someone asked me
>> recently,
>>
>> why do RNIB feel the need to put a clock on ever damn product they
>> produce?
>>
>> Barbara
>>
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 12:22 PM
>> Subject: [talks-uk] Re: moving talks
>>
>>
>>> What are they doing is what I want to know. If you want to speak to
>>> Hi-Tech and have a demonstration of something that has to be on a
>>> Thursday
>>
>>> here in London. What are they doing the other 4 days because they
>>> they
>>> do
>>
>>> not always return my calls or if I ask them to e-mail me they do not.
>
>>> I think they just sit in an office!!!!
>>>
>>> Eleanor
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Darren Harris" <darren_g_harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 12:16 PM
>>> Subject: [talks-uk] Re: moving talks
>>>
>>>
>>> What the rnib? They're a bunch of prats who really haven't got a clue
>
>>> at the end of the day.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>> To: talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [talks-uk] Re: moving talks
>>>
>>>
>>> I should get used to them being around though.
>>>
>>> They are taking over everything it seems.
>>>
>>> Still, another list another discussion I guess!
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: talks-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> [mailto:talks-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>>> On Behalf Of Eleanor Burke
>>> Sent: 13 November 2008 11:47
>>> To: talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [talks-uk] Re: moving talks
>>>
>>> Well I have always seen (for want of a better word) the RNIB as the
>>> Auricle but now I am changing my mind.
>>>
>>> Eleanor
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Barbara Wilson" <barkingbabs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 11:24 AM
>>> Subject: [talks-uk] Re: moving talks
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi Eleanor
>>>>
>>>> Don't ever be surprised that the RNIB know very little!
>>>>
>>>> Barbara
>>>>
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>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: <talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:19 AM
>>>> Subject: [talks-uk] Re: moving talks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Neil
>>>>> Thank you for that. I am a bit fed up at present, want to buy the
>>>>> Wayfinder, got one price from RNIB, another at Sight Village from
>>>>> the
>>>
>>>>> Company and another from Computer Room Services. Now I am not
>>>>> complaining about any of these Agents for the product but the
>>> cheapest
>>>>> price came at Sight Village here in London and they did not say it
>>> was
>>>>> for the day only. I thought I had time to go away and think about
>>>>> it.
>>>
>>>>> Now I am not going to purchase it.
>>>>>
>>>>> In fact it was only when I asked Steve or someone on the Access
>>>>> list a question about upgrading Talks that a person at RNIB who had
>
>>>>> told me
>>> I
>>>>> could not upgrade then said it was news to her that I could upgrade
>>> from
>>>>> Vodafone Talks to Premium Talks on another phone for £50.00. That
>>> from
>>>>> RNIB Hi-Tech!
>>>>>
>>>>> Eleanor
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Neil Barnfather - TalkNav" <talks@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> To: <talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:03 AM
>>>>> Subject: [talks-uk] Re: moving talks
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Eleanor,
>>>>>
>>>>> That's correct, whilst Talks continues to work, minus the ability
>>>>> to move the license again, WFA can only function on one handset at
>>>>> a time.
>>>>>
>>>>> But they don't charge to move from phone to phone.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Neil Barnfather
>>>>> WFA List Administrator
>>>>> Talks Users Host
>>>>>
>>>>> Don't forget TalkNav which is a Nuance accessibility and Wayfinder
>>>>> Access software dealer and distributor, for all your product needs
>>>>> with instant product activation and an online store supporting
>>>>> British Sterling, US Dollars and Euros.
>>>>>
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>>>>> +44 161 277 7997
>>>>> service@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: talks-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>> [mailto:talks-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>>>>> On Behalf Of Eleanor Burke
>>>>> Sent: 13 November 2008 10:01
>>>>> To: talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>> Subject: [talks-uk] Re: moving talks
>>>>>
>>>>> No deactivation of Talks there Scot from what Steve said. He
>>>>> explained that
>>>>>
>>>>> very well about upgrading from phone A to B and B to C. Have a
>>>>> look at his
>>>>> reply there again. Steve has told me though that Wayfinder would
>>>>> deactivate
>>>>>
>>>>> from one phone to another if put on a second phone.
>>>>>
>>>>> Eleanor
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Scott C" <castledine10@xxxxxxx>
>>>>> To: "Talks List Talks List" <talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:47 AM
>>>>> Subject: [talks-uk] Re: moving talks
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks mate. So wen moving from B to C does talks stay on B or
>>>>>> deactivate?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks Scott.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: Steve Nutt - Email Address: steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent On:
>>>>>> 13/11/2008 09:38 Sent To: talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Email Address:
>>>>>> talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>> Subject: [talks-uk] Re: moving talks
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Scott,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As many times as you like, but you can only use one phone per
>>>>>> upgrade. In
>>>>>> other words, you buy Phone A, you then use Phone A to upgrade to
>>> Phone
>>>>>> B.
>>>>>> You can still use Phone B to upgrade to Phone C, but you can't use
>>> Phone
>>>
>>>>>> A
>>>>>> to upgrade to Phone C. So in other words, if you sell on Phone A,
>
>>>>>> the new
>>>>>> customer can't use it for an upgrade, if you have done so.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All the best
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Steve
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: talks-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>> [mailto:talks-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>>>>>> On Behalf Of Scott C
>>>>>> Sent: Thursday 13 November 2008 09:37
>>>>>> To: Talks List Talks List
>>>>>> Subject: [talks-uk] moving talks
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi folks. How many times can talks be moved from one phone to
>>>>>> another?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I know it's £50 to move it over from one to another, but how many
>>>>>> times can I?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks Scott.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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