A new extension package for TALKS that offers the visually impaired full navigation capabilities on their handset.

Based on the well-known Navigator software from Wayfinder, this package powered by TALKS enables visually impaired to become more mobile by providing them better access to their surroundings. Optimized for mobile phones, it was developed with the help of a reference group of visually impaired.

NEW! Wayfinder Access powered by Nuance TALKS&ZOOMS Version 2.0 has just been released, and offers a lot of improvements. Among these, you find:

• New Vicinity Feed view, that shows your surroundings, even without calculating a route
• Details for POI's allow you to get info like opening hours or phone numbers; call a restaurant to reserve a table...
• Details for crossings inform you about its intersections, their names and directions
• Optional clockwise orientation based upon your current direction
• Better "Where am I?" function
• Hot keys to quickly access the important views of this application
• More improvements and bug fixes

You can find a manual for the new release at http://access.mywayfinder.com. You can download this release by pointing your PC's browser or the Nokia web browser to http://access.getwf.com.

• With the new 'vicinity view' users will be able to know what they have around them. They will know what favorites, points of interests (POIs) and crossings are close to them and in which direction they are heading. The information is listed in the order of proximity.
• Access to millions of POIs - Wayfinder Access helps you find and select locations from a database of millions of points of interest. These include hotels, banks, restaurants, theatres, bars, shops, nightlife, hospitals and much more. Once the POI is selected, door-to-door route guidance is generated.
• Wayfinder Access also introduces a "where am I" function, a highly requested feature. By Simple pressing the pen button, Wayfinder Access will read to you your current location, with the name of the street name you are on.
• Wayfinder's award winning and cutting edge Navigator is tightly integrated with Nuance's screen reader TALKS. This means that all meaningful navigation information is read back to the user as specified by the TALKS settings.
• Map coverage - All Wayfinder Navigator subscriptions include unlimited updates of our first-class TeleAtlas maps. Wayfinder and TeleAtlas provide full or partial map coverage in the following countries: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany, Lichtenstein, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Slovakia, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Spain, Portugal, UK, Ireland, Canada, USA.
• Languages - A total of 15 languages are currently supported: Czech, Danish, English, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Slovenian, Turkish.

• A Bluetooth GPS receiver.
• A mobile phone using Series 60 2nd or 3rd Edition platform.
• Talks version 3.1 or above.
• Data subscription (GPRS, EDGE or 3G/UMTS) from your mobile operator/wireless carrier.