[blazie-support] Re: the braille plus
- From: "Chase Crispin" <chase.crispin@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <blazie-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:42:18 -0500
Hi. Sorry for this late post. Your post went to gmail Spam, so I just got
it. Look in your message below. If added answers. HTH!
Chase Crispin
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-----Original Message-----
From: blazie-support-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blazie-support-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Lamar Upshaw
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 10:17 PM
To: blazie-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blazie-support] the braille plus
This sounds like a very fascinating machine, and a bit more affordible with
out killing me; at least not a permanent death anyway. lol.
Yah! If I'm understanding all the messages correctly, the GSM and GPS
features
will be coming next year. They are supposed to, but it could come a little
bit earlier, or a little bit later depending on how things go. Does this
also include wifi and bluetooth?
Wifi and Blue tooth are already built in. also, how many cells does the
braille plus have, and can it be used as a
braille display for a windows xp computer, a windows mobile pocket pc, a
symbian second and third edition smart phone, and/or a windows mobile smart
phone?
The Braille Plus is unlike the Braille Lite. It doesn't have a display
built in at this tie, however it will. So, it will have a USB and blue
tooth display. You will be able to use it with other devices that have
support for that display. Does it have slots to add things such as SD and
CF cards?
It has a Mimi SD card slot, a microphone jack, a headphone jack, and a mini
headphone jack. The unit is so small, it wouldn't have room for a CF card
slot! You can by card readers for about $10, and put what ever type of card
in that. With All Respect,
Upshaw, Lamar T
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chase Crispin" <chase.crispin@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <blazie-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 10:24 AM
Subject: [blazie-support] Re: getting a braille lite 18 and braille lite2000
repaired
> Hi,
> The Braille Plus causts $1395, which is cheaper than the pacmate. No, the
> Braille Plus runs on Linux, but you don't have to know the command line.
> LevelStar and APH have added there own interface, that gives you
> instructions on how to do things, and it all is menu driven. Before I
> knew
> the Icon and Braille Plus ran Linux, I thought I was running a super fast
> version of windows Mobile. Another advantage is that with the Braille
> Plus,
> all of the programs that are loaded on it are made for it. With the
> pacmate, there are those built-in games and the picture viewer which don't
> work with JAWS at all, and Freedom Scientific has to leave them on there,
> because that is Microsoft's law. Yes, the cell phone will be a GSM
> protocol
> phone. If you really want to decide on a Pacmate or a Icon/Braille Plus,
> do
> you want to carry something around that is bigger than your Braille Lite,
> or
> something the size of your hand? I really like both devices, so I can't
> tell you which would be better for you-the Pacmate or Icon/Braille Plus
> though I use the Braille Plus so much, that it is rare for me to have my
> computer on. I don't own a pacmate, but have used one several times over
> the last few years.
>
>
>
> 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 Lamar Upshaw
> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 12:05 PM
> To: blazie-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [blazie-support] Re: getting a braille lite 18 and braille
> lite2000 repared
>
>
> 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 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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