It would seem that there's a new DAISY player in town from the Plextalk
folks called the Linio Pocket. The Plextalk Linio came out several years
ago and took advantage of the DAISY online protocol, which allows users
to directly download books from services like BARD and Bookshare. Most
of the newer players can do this, such as the next-gen Victor Stream and
the new Blaze products from Hims. The newly announced Linio Pocket has
this capability. It also has 12 gb of internal RAM, although not all of
that is accessible to the user. It comes with a 4 GB SD card, has direct
downloading capabilities, and includes reminders and I believe an alarm
clock. A Capela speech voices are included, although the announcement
didn't say which voices you get or if more are available. Pricing was
not announced and the Plextalk Web site included a rather badly
translated FAQ which I'll bet was originally written in Japanese. Since
Freedom Scientific distributes the older Plextalk Pocket I'm wondering
if they will be carrying the new Linio Pocket as well; their Web site,
so far, doesn't mention the new player. Since the older Plextalk Pocket
has the ability to wirelessly download podcasts and can connect to
Internet radio stations I hoped we might see book downloading
capabilities come to that device but this is probably not likely. As I
find out more I'll let you know.
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