[access-uk] Re: Thanks for info on SmartVision
- From: john gallagher <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 10:16:26 +0100
hi vince this is truly truly very interesting and always a wory when for a
totally blind person carrying your devices around with you. where ever we are
we are vunerable and again i am so fortunate to have the means of reading
braille on a very very small device whereever i go. satnav is vital for me in
my life as i tune pianos and go off to chess tournaments. it is very
interesting to hear other people's comments to the way they get around this
difficulty as if i walk about i have grace on my left in harness or generally
now a lot of the time tuning i do get a lift where i can use any satnav in a
car. with either georgie tellorion or the new sendero gps on the iphone the
difficulty when walking about in noisey conditions is to how we receive info
from the phone. when i walk with the dog i either have the phone in a top
jacket pocket connected to the braille device which is strapped over me or if i
am finding say 23 leeds road i have the phone in my right hand listening to ho
w near the destination i am. but i think vince you have brought up a very good
point about using these devices with regards to them maybe being stollen whilst
we walk about. but again tellorion is very very good indeed. their gps i just
leave on with the phone in a jacket pocket so i can hear which road i am coming
up to. hth.
----- Original Message -----
From: Vincent Thacker <vince@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sunday, 11 May 2014 2.24 am
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Thanks for info on SmartVision
>
>
> Have a listen to Steve Nutt's podcasts about the TelOrion. Seems very
> impressive, but there are issues about using it with headphones that concern
> me. Given that I wouldn't want to go through the streets parading 500
> quidsworth of phone, it would have to live somewhere hidden with
> bone-conducting headphones. I deally I'd be able to use a phone with one of
> those headsets that includes a microphone for giving voice commands, but I
> don't know whether this would rule out Tel Orion at the moment.
>
>
> Evidently Mr Nutt is chasing up the headphone sbug, so let's hope it can be
> fixed before long.
>
> Vince.
>
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> Message Received: May 11 2014, 12.40 AM
> From: "Clive Pallett"
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc:
> Subject: [access-uk] Thanks for info on SmartVision
>
> Hello Jackie,
>
> Thank you very much for posting the link for the SmartVision phone. I see it
> is running on android 4.0, which, by the way, is an older version than
> Telorion currently supports.
>
> As for Telorion, my wife Moray and I first saw this demonstrated at the sight
> Matters exhibition run by KAB in folkestone last September. We were
> immediately impressed and Moray bought her Galaxy S4 Mini last month. She has
> some sight, so uses Zoom, the magnification part of Telorion. I have used Vox
> with the keypad with some success, but I need to get used to typing on the
> screen through the holes which is quite different from using a physical
> keypad.
>
> From the short demonstration I heard about the SmartVision phone I am
> wondering if I may find this easier to use than a phone running Telorion.
> Also, the price is £495, a little less than a Telorion phone.
>
> From your comments, Jackie, I take it you are not impressed with the Kapten
> GPS products, and smartvision uses voice recognition as one means to control
> the phone's features. Telorion also has voice recognition but you must be
> connected either through a wireless network or your phone's network to use
> it.
> We have had some fun with Moray's phone with some interesting results.
>
> I will keep my options open for now, but as Moray already has a phone running
> Telorion, I think at the end of the day I will go with that, bearing in mind
> it is frequently updated, all updates are free and there are plans to support
> newer phones and later versions of Android.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Clive Pallett
>
>
>
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