[Electronics-talk] GPS Similar to Original Trekker?

Thu May 9 15:03:14 UTC 2013

Hi Danielle,

I am a HumanWare dealer in Wisconsin and I am also totally blind and 
sell and use the Trekker Breeze from HumanWare everyday!

I sel it fo ronly $599.00 and free UPS ground shipipng and no sales 
tax, where HumanWare chargews $699.00.

I include the new Trekker Breeze running the latest maps 3.3 and 
firmware 2.01 and give you free tech support 7 days a week by phone 
or email or skype.

You also receive from my company the entire U.S. maps 3.3 on one DVD 
disk along with documentation and the Trekker Map manager software 
that goes on your windows computer to install or remove maps from the 
SD card that is in the Trekker Breeze.

The Trekker Breeze does just what you want announcing every 
intersection as you approachh it, telling you the names of the 
streets, what type of intersection, 3 way, 4 way, 5 way or so, you 
can look up commercial points of interest and have it guide you to 
that place by walking or driving. It works just like a Nuvi that 
sighted folks use, same maps, and same synthesized voice, but the 
differences are 8.5 hours of battery life, no lcd screen, very 
accurate, and the Trekker Breeze was made from the bottom up for the 
blind traveler, not a adaptived device for the blind like the gps 
device leader dog is selling, the Captan plus.

You can't get lost with the Trekker Breeze unless your batery goes 
dead, 8.5 battery life, or you drop and damage it or lose it.

I have had mine since december 2008, have just changed the battery 
out for a new battery last year, have droped it in the snow and rain 
and it still works just fine!

I have used it on the metro in Chicago last month, it worked just 
fine, used it in many big cities around the U.S.  last summer used it 
in Los Angeles from the LAX airport to  our hotel, announcingn every 
street we crossed in the cab, how many miles we traveled from the 
airport to the hotel, and how fas the cab driver was going.

  I use it to fine near by hotels, restaurants, banks and ATM'S, and 
many other commercial points of interest.

The best thing about having the Trekker Breeze all updates are free 
and so are the maps, HumanWare have never charged for firmware 
updates or new maps, unlike the SenderoGroup's gps program which now 
was reduced to $995.00 and stil you must purchase a PDA like a 
VoiceNote Apex or HIMS VoiceSense at least around $2,000 more and 
have to have a external GPS bluetooth receiver too, to keep charged 
and handy to find the satellites, unlike the Trekker Breeze where 
everything is built in one 7 ounce device and has a carrying case, 
belt clip and shoulder strap.

It also comes with a wired external very small speaker that you plug 
in to the ear phone jack, and attach it to your  collar of your shirt 
or coat or strap of the Trekker Breeze and has a very loud volume, 
which many of my blind-hearing impaired customers love it, because of 
its great volume, which when traveling along a busy street is nice to 
be able to turn the volume up so you can hear what the Trekker Breeze 
is saying.

There are audio mp3 files on my web page that will let you hear what 
it sounds like and go through some of its great features.

My contact information is at the bottom of this email, if you wish to 
contact me.

Regards,
Roger Behm

At 07:28 AM 5/9/2013, Tracy Carcione wrote:
>Hi Danielle.
>What a great cab driver!
>The Trekker Breeze is sold by Humanware, humanware.com.
>Tracy
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Danielle Antoine" 
><singingmywayin at gmail.com>
>To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
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>Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 9:20 PM
>Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] GPS Similar to Original Trekker?
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>
>>I was curious about the trekker breeze because where I live it's kinda
>>rural and I don't get out and walk many places because I don't know
>>the streets and what's there. My folks are not into walking nor
>>describing suroundings and such.
>>
>>When I moved to baton rouge, where I used to live, Mr. Frye a cab
>>driver I met used to tell me the streets and which way they ran as we
>>went by...that is how I really learned my way around the city since at
>>that time my kids were toddlers and I wasn't doing much walking and
>>using public transportation with them in tow. However, once i did I
>>had a very good idea of my surroundings and could direct other drivers
>>quite well. Many thanks to Fred frye!
>>
>>Danielle
>>
>>On 5/8/13, David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com> wrote:
>>>APH has a PC-based talking maps application which may do what you
>>>want.  It or some version thereof may be sold by Sendero too.
>>>
>>>Dave
>>>
>>>At 03:02 PM 5/8/2013, you wrote:
>>>>Hi Everyone,
>>>>I had an origional Trekker with the Dell PDA, and sadly it no longer
>>>>works properly. I loved using it to learn new places because it
>>>>would allow you to browse streets one block at a time, by pressing
>>>>the navigational keys left right up or down. This gave me a really
>>>>good picture in my mind of all of the intersections along a given
>>>>street, and where streets were in relation to each other. I know
>>>>there is a Trekker Breeze now, but that does not allow you to browse
>>>>virtually like I am describing. I have an iPhone now, but none of
>>>>the GPS apps I know of allow me to browse streets by block like the
>>>>Trekker did. With the flat screen it seems you have to drag your
>>>>finger along the street to navigate it, and it is very difficult to
>>>>keep my finger on the street using the flat screen. I am looking for
>>>>a GPS option that will allow me to explore streets from one
>>>>intersection to the next, by pressing some sort of button, or
>>>>perhaps making some sort of swipe gesture, to advance along the
>>>>street. Does anyone know of such a GPS program? It can be an iPhone
>>>>app or some stand alone GPS system.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks for any help you can provide,
>>>>Sarah
>>>
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