[access-uk] Cobolt compass, beware

  • From: "ANDY COLLINS" <Andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 22:41:34 +0100

Hi all -

Another waste of dosh! I think I paid about £35 for this, and it's a load of 
rubbish. My experience with 
it, found it to be both inaccurate and unpredictable. 

Like many things produce for blind people, it is also very ugly, and cheap 
looking/feeling.

I'm not just banging the old drum of complaint against equipment produced for 
the blind. In fact, it saddens me to find yet again the same experience, of 
over-priced [but I do understand the niche market equals fewer sales argument] 
ugly build, hardly fit for purpose, assistive equipment.

  I always try to buy where I can, mainstream equipment, and figure out how to 
get the best from it, but sometimes, mainstream can be too non-accessible, and 
I am forced to go to the so-called specialists. It truly gives me no pleasure 
in bringing to the attention of the list this poor piece of specialist 
equipment, but I think we need to keep shouting for equality in product 
performance, reliability, and aesthetic appeal. I don't want big clunky stuff 
in my pockets, or around my house, just because it can talk, or give me some 
other kind of additional feedback. As I have said before on this list, the PTR1 
was the most over-priced, mal-functioning, hugely ugly piece of junk, I've ever 
wasted 600 quid on. Sadly, I've wasted 35 on a useless compass, that thinks 
North is wherever it fancies, on any given day -

Andy

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