[access-uk] Re: Cobolt compass, beware

  • From: "Peter Beasley" <pjbeasley23@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:32:20 +0100

androyd is the operating system. 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Vince Thacker 
  To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 3:30 PM
  Subject: [access-uk] Re: Cobolt compass, beware


  Andy, Android, as I understand it, started off as its own company, but is now 
part of Google.

  Vince.
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: ANDY COLLINS 
    To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 3:11 PM
    Subject: [access-uk] Re: Cobolt compass, beware


    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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