Now that was well said Mike. It is why I do business threw your outfit. You hit the nail on the head with the phone and GPS thing. My voicenote meets my requirements but my N82 is just as emportant and my laptop and desktop as well. Every thing has it's place. If used properly the difference is profound in the blind user's productive life. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael May" <mikemay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2010 10:45 PM Subject: [gps-talkusers] so many options, lots of questions
First, a couple comments on recent posts and then my general observations.The battery life on the iPhone really is much less than an N86 or HTC phone,mostly because so many cool things can be going on at once. Because the iPhone can be running 3G or WiFi to play music, play a baseball game or to listen to NPR, it is streaming way more than I ever did on the N86. Add to that using a Bluetooth headset and running GPS, and the iPhone is reallygetting a work out. I am looking for a secondary battery like Raul has and Iknow there are battery packs built into cases like the Juice Pack. The iPhone is already on the large size so adding a case with battery makes it even bigger. As with all this technology, there are always trade offs.For me, learning the iPhone is like going to the gym. It is a bit expensivebut it is important to one's health to work out regularly. Being sedentary or stagnent with one's technology isn't healthy even though it is quite painful at time to push oneself. I don't think it is realistic to find one technology that does everything all the time. One's circumstances change. I think it is more realistic to have one small portable device for phone calls and quick information andcommunication on the go and another device for writing documents and longer communications. Most families have one car for commuting and running aroundtown and another, like a van to carry all the kids and stuff or to use on longer trips. You can't realisticly have a vehicle that is both small and large at the same time. I hate to see people sacrifice productivity when it comes to reading and writing in order to have the super small device that does it all. Larger keyboards, Braille displays and more real estate in general add toproductivity. When I am giving a speech, I really don't want to be listeningto my notes on a netbook computer through an earphone. I don't want acomputer with an external Braille display. I want my elegant BrailleNote PKor Braille Sense OnHand at my fingertips so nobody in the audience will hardly notice.The same thing when I am walking down the road. I want that Braille displayfor location information. I want a light device that allows me to quicklytype many search strings, while walking and talking at the same time. I mayeven have my phone in one ear and my GPS in the other. I don't really carewhat the operating system is or whether it is proprietary or not. Who cares if it is up stream, down stream or main stream as long as it gets you whereand when you want to go. Bottom line, I want to read and respond to scores of emails, read documents, answer phone calls and navigate independently.The reason Sendero has GPS on 6 platforms is precisely because there is notone size that fits all users or all situations. The beauty of adaptive technology today verses 10 years ago is the fact that we have options.People keep talking about the demise of the specialized PDA for the blind or the emergance of Android over the iPhone. I am a fan of figuring out what Iwant to accomplish and finding technology to help me rather thanprognosticating about future trends and worrying about philosophical issues of operating systems. Let's make the most of the technology we already have,improve upon it and add options, not subtract them. Mike Michael May, CEO Sendero Group Developers of accessible GPS and distributors of technology for the blind Voice, 530-757-6800 MikeMay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.senderogroup.com http://www.AccessibleGPS.com http://www.CrashingThrough.com 429 F Street, Suite 4 Davis, CA 95616To change your email settings (unsubscribe, digest only, or vacation mode):http://senderogroup.com/social_media/email.htmAdditionally, to unsubscribe send an email to gps-talkusers-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject.
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