I am probably looking at a Braille Plus. Does the Braille Plus miss anything that would be useful on the Icon? Thanks.
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To: <blazie-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 11:12 AMSubject: [blazie-support] Re: getting a braille lite 18 and braille lite2000 repaired
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 CrispinAdministrator and moderator of the Blind Mobile Tech (BMT) blog, and soon tobe 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 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 AMSubject: [blazie-support] Re: getting a braille lite 18 and braille lite2000repairedWow! 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 reparedThe pacmate really is great, but in a day or 2, the Icon will have supportfor books fromaudible, and the National Library Service. The Icon is half the size of aBraille 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 BraillePlus, sold by the American Printing House for the Blind. It is absolutelyidentical 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 reparedYou 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 lite18 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 -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. 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