Hi folks,
I just received three of my six gps 2.0 kits last saturday.
I also bought the magellan sportrak reciever to see for myself if it is a
great improvement over the magelllan 310 receiver.
Well, first of all it was worth the wait!
I tried it in a car on the interstate and it really was accurate.
We arrived in Madison Wisconsin and was looking for the 1900 block of East
Washington ave. for our designation.
My driver wasn't sure where we were, since like most cities the addresses
are not easy to see when you are driving in heavy traffic and four or more
lanes of traffic.
I kept hitting thhe dot one or letter a to hear my location in street
address and street and it was real fast and very accurate, we did find our
locaiton greatly do to the gps 2.0 braillenote.
I also have played with the virtual mode last night and did six routes,
four waling in my city of Janesville, 60,000 population and it was very good.
Also I did two driving routes which I will be taking friday and it looks
very good too.
You people have to remember that these maps god or bad points are not the
fault of PDI, but the fault of the map designers yahoo or who ever did the
work.
I have used Yahoo maps off the internet by my sighted drivers for years not
only in Wisconsin but driving twice to Florida and throughout Florida,
which for those who don't know is over 1,500 miles one way.
Yes, we sometimes got strange driving directions, which almost aways got us
to our designation, but sometimes it didn't seem the fastest of the most
direct, but it still got us there.
The same goes for the maps the braillenote is using.
for example I created a virtual route to my brother's house in Janesville,
which was just over 2.1 miles using the key command letter r and then
letter T, to tell me the total distance of walking route.
It took me not the most direct route, but when I looked at it as a driving
route or walking routte, it took me a more residential and less busy with
traffic and safer route to walk.
Other routes I created in Janesvile walking to other friends homes, it took
me the more direct way, since there was an interstate to go under and
limited streets to get me there.
I plan on doing heavy testing of the two magellan receivers both in
Wisconsin and in Florida over the next month, since I will be using a car,
my feet, and flying to Florida.
I am interested in how it works in the airplane, since I had done it before
with my Atlas Speaks years ago.
So people remember, we never had this technology before at our finger tips
in such a portable of a device like we have with the braillenote, so look
at what it does and what power of knowledge it now gives us, instead of
finding out every little error or minor defects!
I am positive PDI will improve on it, just like they have done on the
braillenoe family of note takers, and I am saying this as an individual
lwho has spent over $24,000.00 of my own money, just because I believe in
this technology and how it has so greatly improved my personal life style!
Yes, I amm also a dealer of PDI, but also of Freedom Scientific, and FS
doesn't even come close to the BrailleNote in features and power that I see
in the PDI products
I have a very strong philosophy that I will not support or sell a product
for the blind, if I feel it is over priced or junk!
I have been using and selling the BrailleNotes for over three years and
don't regret it one bit!
So people we have waited very long it getting gps 2.0, don't kill it before
you really give it a good test and see what it can do for you.
two last items, I loved the ability to do a fine search for a particular
point of interest, by typeing part of the name and pressing enter, to
listen or read on the braille display didn't find in one mile search look
at 2 miles, and keep going until it did fine the point of interst,
sometimes with in the first mile or in other cases finding it after 80
mmiles of searching while driving on the interstate going 70 miles an hour.
Wow!
Remember you must spell correctly and hope the people who put the
information did also!
Secondly, being able to attach my cell phone to the braillenote and
search the web or check and send email while driving on I95, going 75 miles
an hour, in Florida last year was awesome!
Roger Behm
Adaptive Information Systems
We Make Technology accessable to the Vision Impaired and Reading Disabled
Roger A. Behm, President
1611 Clover Lane
Janesville WI 53545-1388
Voice: (608) 758-0933
Fax: (608) 758-7898
Toll free: (800/877/ 792-4768
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