Well, right now, the problem is cost. I can't afford to buy the expensive equipment, being i'm a single parent dad of 3 children. *smile* Even as a home maker, I have so much use for a braille notetaker/portable device: for everything from keeping track of my kids' doctor appointments, and special events and activities, to entertainment such as reading books from web braille. But, state agencies all say that raising my children is not a viable occupation, therefore i'm not permitted to have adaptive equipment until i am in school with a full load and my kids are all in the child care system for roughly 14 hours a day. lol *smile*
About how much does the braille plus cost? is it based on the windows mobile operating system like the pac-mate? Is the cel modual for GSM sim cards for T-mobile and AT&T wireless?
With All Respect, Upshaw, Lamar T----- Original Message ----- From: "chase crispin" <chase.crispin@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <blazie-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, January 02, 1970 12:32 PMSubject: [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/techIf you have more questions about the product, you should subscribe to the Icon Discuss list, by sending
a blank email to: icon-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxAnd 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 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 -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.486 / Virus Database: 269.17.13/1210 - Release Date: 1/5/2008 11:46 AM