You're kidding me right? $500-$600 on an Iphone and then $350 for a stream? Get out'a here.
Why would I want braille on my phone? Well because for one thing, I have it and use it, and don't want to retire my $6000 braille display just to own an iphone and look cool. It's faster for some things. It's private. it's quiet. It's nice for reading ebooks in braille. I have it now and like it. Why would I give it up? Is ATNT navigater limitted to one company? What will sprint users do or users like me in Canada who don't use ATNT? Can your gps give you complete info at the push of a button, upcoming streets, points of interest, custome POI's, busstops in locations that support the feature? Can you make a rout directly from your contact manager? Can you call a poi directly from the gps to get more information? My Windows mobile device does all this, I get nearly tripple the battery life out of it. I can connect a 64 channel receiver for woss quality even in overcast or erban canyon, and I can do a lot more but I don't use all the features. Do you need to pay extra for data and gps on this system you're using? I pay nothing. As far as OCR goes, it would come in handy for little things. I can't imagine snapping a book with it, but if it were fast and high quality enough I might. The thing is, I know people do want their phone to be a daisy reader and an OCR device because they tell me so all the time. When I'm picking out equipment for people, I get them what they need to be independent and productive. For some people that means the IPhone, but not for everybody by a long shot. No braille yet, personally for me that's a deal breaker. Not for most of my clients it isn't though, for them it may be the GPS, or the OCR, or they may just want a very cool and highly functional phone. In that case, the IPhone meets the need and off we go. Of course it's got to support CDMA before it will compete with windows mobile here in Canada. Rogers has made many many enemies here with it's nondesclosure, heavy fees and bad contracts. Best, erik burggraaf A+ certified technician and user support consultant. Phone: 888-255-5194 Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com On 2009-12-23, at 10:26 AM, Matt Roberts wrote: > > On Dec 23, 2009, at 9:01 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: > >> Do we have braille support on the IPhone then? >> >> How about a daisy book reader? >> >> Is there a good OCR package yet? >> >> What are people using for gps on it these days? > > Why do we need a Daisy reader on the iPhone. If you want that, buy a Victor > Stream. We don't need braille support either! If I want OCR, I'll use my > computer. The only OCR on a phone is the one that runs on Symbian. Why > would you want it anyway? > The iPhone has a built-in GPS receiver, so no external one is needed. > For GPS I use AT&T Navigator, and it works quite well. > I get a day to a day and a half out of my battery. > > > Matt Roberts n9gmr...@gmail.com > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
