[access-uk] Re: Cobolt compass, beware

  • From: "ANDY COLLINS" <Andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:11:32 +0100

Hi Steve - I'm still with the N82 [I know I know <smile>] My intention when I 
next go for a phone, was to probably go the IPhone route, but have to say, I 
don't like the size and shape of it so much. Guess I need to find out what the 
differences are between it, and Android models. I'm a bit behind with the 
latest mobile market. Are Androids the manufacturor name, as with Nokia? Or is 
Android the OS produced by Google? -

Andy
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Steve Nutt 
  To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 8:31 AM
  Subject: [access-uk] Re: Cobolt compass, beware


  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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