I emailed Humanware who said they have no plans to make a Trekker app. Too bad, I had the Trekker / Maestro P D A and thought the Trekker was great! I especially liked that I could make a route and browse it virtually. I used the Trekker to "walk" neighborhoods when I moved across the country. I found a perfect location where there is transportation, quick marts, ATMs, eateries etc.
Chuck On Feb 13, 10:40 pm, "Andy Baracco" <[email protected]> wrote: > MessageActually Trekker and Sendero have always been separate products. > Humanware and Sendero only partnered on the products for Braillenote. > From: Sieghard Weitzel > Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 9:24 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Trekker GPS App > Hi Alan, > > I am not sure if Humanware would be the right company to talk to. Their > Trekker product utilizes Sendero’s technology and as far as I know Sendero is > and has been working on a more complete GPS app geared towards the blind for > some time. I believe they are funded by Seeing Eye which of course is a good > thing because Seeing Eye has the money to back such a project. > > I used to own a Trekker Maestro about 5 years ago and while I am sure there > are people who had good experiences with Humanware, their products and > customer service, I was never very impressed and I have a feeling if > Humanware was to come up with a GPS app they would try and charge through the > nose for it. > > Remember Orator or whatever it was called? It was the screenreader they > developed for Blackberry and even though it only worked on a few devices they > were charging $450 which is more than half of the most expensive 64 Gig > iPhone without contract. I bet those very likely few people who did buy it > probably regretted the decision. > > It’s really too bad Blackberry didn’t integrate accessibility into the > Blackberry 10 platform because the Z10 and Q10 really do sound like very nice > phones and the initial feedback I heard has been rather positive. > > Anyhow, I don’t want to stray into another discussion of accessibility of > other platforms and so on, but maybe somebody on the list has heard something > new about Sendero’s GPS project for the iPhone and will share it. It would > really be nice if they came up with a really comprehensive GPS app this year; > if it had similar features to a Trekker or MobilGeo combined with the > stability of the iOS platform it would really be worth something. > > Regards, > > Sieghard > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, > visithttp://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visithttps://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
