[bookport] Re: bookport needs a speaker:

  • From: Chris Hill <hillco@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 11:18:13 -0500

This isn't a laptop.  It is a reading device.  My laptop's speakers
are crap too, I wouldn't want to listen to them for long.  Wireless
doesn't make it easier to read books, and braille, forget it; it'd
cost three grand with that and weigh three times as much at least.


On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 11:54:09 -0400, you wrote:

>not a standoff but a conflict.  Many people have not bought them  
>because they don't support braille, they don't support wireless, they  
>don't have onboard storage and they don't have a speaker.  Why does  
>pac mate have a speaker if it's so unimportant not to have one?  How  
>about braille note, braille sense and even laptops?  Oh, you guys who  
>think a speaker is necessary can just go pound peas.  So What if the  
>device talks.  This brings up another matter.  It'd be really cool if  
>we could use the bp as a synth for our computers.  Yes, with a  
>speaker in it.
>
>-- 
>Jonnie Apple Seed
>With his:
>Hands-On Technolog(eye)s
>
>
>On Sep 5, 2005, at 11:30 AM, Walt Smith wrote:
>
>It's also a customer request to not add a speaker and that's a standoff.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "David Poehlman" <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 11:20 AM
>Subject: [bookport] Re: bookport needs a speaker:
>
>
>It could be small and still sound good.  IIt could be on the back of
>the unit.  It might make the unit a bit larger depending on design,
>but it would be hugely worth it and this is no opinion.  It may well
>be a bad idea, but it is a customer request.


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