[gps-talkusers] Re: BrailleNote products, USB and Bluetooth

Wow, When I heard about USB 2.0, I red as much as I could find about USB ports. Unfortunately I don't have a lot of background, but most of what I could find said a lot about the standardization. So I assumed that drivers were not as much of an issue as they are. Gerry
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael May" <mikemay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 8:27 AM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] BrailleNote products, USB and Bluetooth


The new mPower does have standard laptop USB. The PK has the typical PDA style slave USB, which does not power a device. This is quite common for PDAs for the sighted as well.

One problem with USB is that it is not universal as the name implies. One has to have a driver for almost every device.

This is one of the nice benefits of a Bluetooth interface. No drivers have to be installed. Although it isn't perfect yet, we will see software improvements. For example, my new Nokia 6682 phone supports up to 5 Bluetooth devices at once whereas the previous 6600 like most Bluetooth devices only supported one connection at a time. This bodes well for use of multiple devices like Bluetooth GPS, headsets and keyboards all at the same time.

Mike


At 06:29 AM 10/28/2005, you wrote: 
    Hello everyone,

I don't know if anyone here knows, but the more I read about the Braille note I wonder why they have non standard USB ports, and could there be a software solution? Gerry 




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