[bookport] Re: bookport needs a speaker:
- From: "Lynnette" <superlynne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 12:05:14 -0400
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Lynnette
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Ring" <ring.richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 11:49 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: bookport needs a speaker:
> The Bookport functions as it was intended. A TV without a screen
> doesn't because expected functionality is missing. If some one were
> generous enough
> To purchase a Bookport for me as a gift, I don't imagine that the first
> thing I would do is to go to that person and say, "But where's the
> speaker on this piece of junk?"
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Poehlman
> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 10:28 AM
> To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bookport] Re: bookport needs a speaker:
>
>
> Ok, the price on the site is rong then? iut was listed as 49x or
> something like that. I could go and check but you know better than
> I. Again I say, this is acustomer request so just take it for what
> it is worth from someone who's been around blindness products for a
> long time. Yes, people who get them if they buy them know what they
> are getting in advance, but many are given as gifts to people who
> have never heard of them and they should be correctly built. I will
> not buy one because it does not have a speaker and it does not allow
> me to store stuff in it and unless the stereo bug is fixed. I also
> do not like the speech or the spacing of the buttons.
>
> Let this be what it is, not an attack or intended critisism but would
> have been customer observations. Yes, you can adapt but the price
> means you should not have to. Suppose I got a tv for 7 hundred
> dollars and was told it dien't come with a screen?
>
> --
> Jonnie Apple Seed
> With his:
> Hands-On Technolog(eye)s
>
>
> On Sep 5, 2005, at 9:39 AM, Walt Smith wrote:
>
> Not if it would alter the unit's size. This subject has been debated to
> death and beyond on this list and there's no solid consensus, but as
> far as
> I'm concerned, anything that would tend to increase the unit's size or
> weight is completely unacceptable. People who purchase it know in
> advance
> what they're getting and not getting and if you can find a Walkman
> that does
> one per cent of what the Book Port does, you're welcome to it.
> Besides, you
> should at least get the price right--it's $400, not $500.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Poehlman" <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 9:00 AM
> Subject: [bookport] bookport needs a speaker:
>
>
> When I examined a book port for several weeks beginning around
> memorial day, I was most put off by the fact that I had to augment
> the unit with something else before even beginning to use it. Yes,
> it's lovely, but no walk man that I know of costs 500 dollars. I
> know that the IPod and its kin require augmentation too, but we are
> talking about a classic need here and that is one of being able to
> hear the audio and for 500 dollars, you'd think we'd get something
> with a speaker in it.
>
> Further on the discussion of what should be in the book port, I was
> disapointed that I could not just load something into the book port
> without yet another augmentation which granted like headphones was
> supplied but unnerving nonetheless especially if you need better
> headphones or an external speaker or a bigger card. I was fully
> informed and it was no surprise but the reality was a bit different
> from the knowing in advance. Were a speaker emplanted into the bp we
> could have error tones and other tonal indications augmenting our
> experience.
>
> I'd love to hear the wisdom behind the current design other than
> perhaps better bat life and a more compact design?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Jonnie Apple Seed
> With his:
> Hands-On Technolog(eye)s
>
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