A BP with smaller keys might be okay, but I do wonder about the elderly or
multi-handicapped user's ability to manipulate something that would
enable a
design of the size you mention here--a cigarette pack. While I don't know
this to have been the case when the original device was designed, the
present keypad certainly looks as if this section of the potential market
was considered. I know from experience and observation that many elderly
users just can't cope very well with buttons the size most of us find
usable. Since NLS, from what I gather, isn't planning to produce a truly
portable player when they move to digital Talking Books, I can imagine
APH
wanting to fill this gap, provided they can work with NLS to get the
necessary permissions and work out the technology, so these folks would
absolutely have to be taken into account in any design considerations.
I think that on balance, I also like the idea of moving to SD cards from
CompactFlash, particularly if industry forecasts indicate that even
higher-capacity SD cards may be forthcoming in the future and if NLS
decides
to move in that direction. Right now, 4 gig is the largest available size
and if APH succeeds in removing all card size limitations, I can see that
some folks may very well want to buy even larger-capacity cards. My sole
concern about using SD cards is their relative fragility when compared to
CompactFlash--I just see them as being too easy to damage or lose.
CompactFlash is certainly going to continue to be around for a long, long
time, given the number of devices that are dependent on them, but using
SD
would certainly aid in designing a smaller player.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Tanner" <david-tanner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 8:20 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: New Bookport ideas
It's size is about half to two thirds an inch thick, about 2 inches wide,
and about 5 inches high. I am guessing it would need to be a bit larger
than this unit in order to have decent size keys, but it would be nice if
the BP could be a bit smaller; say the size of a cigarette pack.
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