[access-uk] Re: Cobolt compass, beware

  • From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 08:31:40 +0100

Hi Andy,

 

I?ve never seen the Cobolt compass, but I do this on my mainstream Android
phone <Smile>.

 

All the best

 

Steve

 

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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
ANDY COLLINS
Sent: 15 July 2012 22:42
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Cobolt compass, beware

 

Hi all -

 

Another waste of dosh! I think I paid about £35 for this, and it's a load of
rubbish. My experience with 

it, found it to be both inaccurate and unpredictable. 

 

Like many things produce for blind people, it is also very ugly, and cheap
looking/feeling.

 

I'm not just banging the old drum of complaint against equipment produced
for the blind. In fact, it saddens me to find yet again the same experience,
of over-priced [but I do understand the niche market equals fewer sales
argument] ugly build, hardly fit for purpose, assistive equipment.

 

  I always try to buy where I can, mainstream equipment, and figure out how
to get the best from it, but sometimes, mainstream can be too
non-accessible, and I am forced to go to the so-called specialists. It truly
gives me no pleasure in bringing to the attention of the list this poor
piece of specialist equipment, but I think we need to keep shouting for
equality in product performance, reliability, and aesthetic appeal. I don't
want big clunky stuff in my pockets, or around my house, just because it can
talk, or give me some other kind of additional feedback. As I have said
before on this list, the PTR1 was the most over-priced, mal-functioning,
hugely ugly piece of junk, I've ever wasted 600 quid on. Sadly, I've wasted
35 on a useless compass, that thinks North is wherever it fancies, on any
given day -

 

Andy

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