[blazie-support] Re: getting a braille lite 18 and braille lite2000 repaired
- From: "Chase Crispin" <chase.crispin@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <blazie-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:12:46 -0500
I looked, and only the Icon/Braille Plus, and the VR Stream! I was just
curious if you are getting an Icon or a Braille Plus.
Chase Crispin
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-----Original Message-----
From: blazie-support-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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louis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 1:09 PM
To: blazie-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blazie-support] Re: getting a braille lite 18 and braille
lite2000 repaired
Yeah, I saw that at CSUN! Very cool and they are coming out with a program
for the Icon and Braille Plus that will allow you to listen to descriptive
videos! I wonder if they have that for Windows Mobile? HTH.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chase Crispin" <chase.crispin@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <blazie-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 11:05 AM
Subject: [blazie-support] Re: getting a braille lite 18 and braille lite2000
repaired
> Wow! The pacmate has a phone card! Did you hear that the Icon and
> Braille
> Plus are going to start shipping with a 40 GB hard drive for the same
> price?
>
>
>
> Chase Crispin
> Administrator and moderator of the Blind Mobile Tech (BMT) blog, and soon
> to
> be website!
> Blog:
> http://blindmobiletech.blogspot.com/
> APH training video feed:
> http://www.youtube.com/Braille+/
> e-mail:
> chase.crispin@xxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blazie-support-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:blazie-support-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
> louis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 12:58 PM
> To: blazie-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [blazie-support] Re: getting a braille lite 18 and braille
> lite2000 repared
>
>
> Hi. PAC Mate has these things except builtin WiFi and bluetooth but if
> they
> were to build those in the price for it would go weigh up, and it is
> cheaper
> and easier to just buy another card if your WiFi or Bluetooth card breaks
> than to be without your PAC Mate like you would the Icon. And I do agree,
> FS
> really needs to lower the starting prices for the PAC Mate considerably.
> Also there is an FM radio CF card that works really well with the PAC
> Mate,
> and a CF card for accessing GSM cell phone networks with your PAC mate so
> you can text, make incoming and outgoing phone calls, and it works 100%
> with
> the JAWS 6.0 in the PAC Mate. The only thing I wish we had is a bigger HD
> like the Icon but CF cards are getting a lot cheaper, and there are CF to
> SD
> adapters you can buy so you can use SD cards as well. Also with the PAC
> Mate
> if you are a JAWS user, you don't have to ever purchase JAWS again. Your
> PM
> can act like a wireless Dongo so JAWS is always a full version, plus you
> can
> control your entire system directly from your PAC Mate! The big plus
> regarding the Icon is for me just the bigger internal storage space, and
> that it is also open-source! HTH.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "chase crispin" <chase.crispin@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <blazie-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, January 02, 1970 12:32 PM
> Subject: [blazie-support] Re: getting a braille lite 18 and braille
> lite2000
> repared
>
>
> The pacmate really is great, but in a day or 2, the Icon will have support
> for books from
> audible, and the National Library Service. The Icon is half the size of a
> Braille
> Lite, and about 1/3 thinner. Also, Blue Tooth and USB display support is
> coming
> soon. If you don't want to have to braille with your thumbs or text, you
> should look into a Braille
> Plus, sold by the American Printing House for the Blind. It is absolutely
> identical
> to the Icon, but it has a Braille Keyboard on it. Levelstar and APH
> collaborate,
> so both companies are helping with the development. I am typing this
> email
> on the Braille
> Plus. Another advantage of the Icon and Braille Plus over the Pacmate is
> that they
> are cheaper, and with the Icon or Braille Plus, the Wireless and the Blue
> Tooth are built
> in. There will be docking stations soon, RFB&d support soon, and a cell
> phone
> mojewel also. If you are interested, you should visit the Levelstar
> website
> at:
> www.levelstar.com
> Or the APH page at:
> www.aph.org/tech
> If you have more questions about the product, you should subscribe to the
> Icon Discuss list, by sending
> a blank email to:
> icon-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> And put the word subscribe in the subject line. There is also the Tech
> list
> for development
> questions, a beta list, and a announcement list. If you want the
> subscriptions for those
> lists, let me know.
> HTH,
> Chase On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 22:20:37 -0700, wrote:
>
>
>>Hi. I don't mind the PAC Mate. However you might also want to look into
>>getting an Icon from Level Star. I like the fact that the PAC Mate has a
>>
>>Braille Display, and both the PAC Mate and Icon let you install
>>off-the-shelf apps so you can freely run whatever you want. HTH.
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <raul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>To: <blazie-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 11:19 AM
>>Subject: [blazie-support] Re: getting a braille lite 18 and braille lite
>>
>>2000 repared
>>
>>
>>>You can get the battery fixed from any local Batteries Plus as those are
>>>
>>>standard batteries. As for the advance bar, I don't know what to tell
>>>you.
>>>
>>>A friend of mine recently tried asking Freedom what the charge was to
>>>look
>>>at his BLT 40 which has some managed cells on it and they informed him
>>>he
>>>was better off with a so-called PACMate which is mostly crap in my
>>>opinion, plus they would charge him $250 just to look at it, plus $50
>>>per
>>>cell. Quite obviously they will do the work, at the cost of today's
>>>prices
>>>despite it being an older device.
>>>
>>>Go figure.
>>>
>>>Lamar Upshaw wrote:
>>>>Hi. I heard that freedom scientific no longer supports the braille lite
>>>>
>>>>18 or 2000. Are there any companies that still repare them? I am
>>>>looking
>>>>to get the battery replaced in mine, and get the advance bar fixed,
>>>>because it keeps collapsing. I've had to get that repared twice with
>>>>freedom scientific before, but for what ever reason, my advance bar
>>>>always does that. I have a light touch, so I know it's not because i'm
>>>>too hard on it. lol.
>>>>I also have a friend who's still using a braille lite, and she also
>>>>needs
>>>>repares, but we both heard it's not done any more. Can someone shed
>>>>some
>>>>light on this for us?
>>>>
>>>>With All Respect,
>>>>Upshaw, Lamar T
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>Raul A. Gallegos .. http://www.asmodean.net
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>
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