Sounds good. I'm currently using the Trekker Breeze from Humanware, but it's been discontinued, and although Humanware say they're continuing to support it, I don't think they will as it's already difficult to buy the accessories, they just keep saying try in a week or so. So when my battery dies, it'll be useless as I think the battery is unique to the device. So I'll be looking at getting an app like this.
Does the walker pro have a free roaming mode where you can just walk along a route and it will automatically tell you what street you're on? For instance even if you haven't chosen any particular route, the trekker breeze announces intersections and stuff as you approach them. Like it will say four way intersection with Johnson Street crossing Smith Street, then as you turn on to Smith Street it announces you are on Smith Street.
I find it useful to have streets announced automatically. I need to have both hands free because I use a cane and a little sensor device called a miniguide which is brilliant for helping to avoid obstacles without having to actually hit everything with the cane.

That's a shame to hear about the Trekker Breeze being discontinued, but at seven or eight hundred dollars I probably shouldn't be surprised. Especially when there are some very good and very reasonably priced GPS apps for the blind available for both mobile platforms.

The trekker breeze is a flawed device for sure, and given its price it's no surprise it's been a flop, but I've been using it for 3 years, and still do every day. If you get to know its quirks, it's not that bad. The umbrella thing  was probably due to heavy cloud cover. I have it in my coat pocket or under my shirt all the time and it works the same as it does out in the open, so an umbrella shouldn't interfere with it, but thick clouds can cause problems occasionally. It has trouble finding a satellite when you're indoors, especially when turning it on for the first time after it's been off for many hours. It gets much better if it's been switched on and found a satellite in the last few hours. And it occasionally loses the plot while in a vehicle. You certainly couldn't rely on it to guide you 100% of the time.
I'd say it's worst flaw, is that if it loses the satellite while moving at speed in a car or even on a bicycle, it has a real problem reconnecting while you're on the move,. You really need to be still for it to get it's act together. On rare occasions, it can even go completely dead, and won't work at all unless you either leave it switched off for a short while, or remove the battery for a few seconds. These are the things I find least acceptable.
If you were travelling around by bus a lot, and constantly going places where you needed a GPS to tell you where you were, I wouldn't recommend it at all, but for just walking around your neighbourhood, visiting family and local shops, it gives you that bit of info about intersections and stuff, and I find this makes life a little easier. I also like using it in the car and on the tandem bike to tell me where I am, but this is the environment where it's least reliable, and I wouldn't like to have to depend on it, but it still works more often than not.

That sounds pretty bad. It mustn't have had a very good map installed for your region. The maps are good for Britain. When I first got it the only street it said street with no name for was a side street with no houses on it. Updating to the latest map fixed that. I've travelled for tens of miles around my area, and even plotted a route from one end of England to the other and the maps were very good. It only says street with no name when I'm on a footpath, alleyway, or streets that have no need of a post code. Having entire intersections unknown sounds like the map was very poor for your region for whatever reason.

Hi.
Yeah, I thought the same that the maps are quite poor here in Germany, because some unnamed streets were big highways xD.
Greetings Moritz.

This APP should be available in Germany, there is a link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta … twalkerpro
And of course, the manual that shows what you can expect from this:
http://www.dotwalker.wz.cz/dotwalker_en.html