[access-uk] Re: Pure radios
- From: "Mandy Palmer" <amanda.palmer@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:54:38 -0000
Hi there, agree with that totally. I also bought myself a sonus for
Christmas and am very happy with it but like you it would be nice to keep up
with the technology that sighted people can do, so it would be nice to have
the play back feature and it certainly is a good idea to tell Pure how good
we think the product is. I just have one small beef. Is there any way of
turning the speech on the handle off without interfering with any of the
other speech facilities. I find it very sensitive and find that it tells
you the time or the alarm setting with barely a touch and it is a bit
annoying sometimes. My husband has sorted it out a bit by putting tape
around the handle to stop it being so sensitive to touch, but if there is a
way of turning it off, that would be great.
Mandy
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of Ian Macrae
Sent: 04 January 2006 11:34
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Pure radios
Here here, Adrian, and write and tell them how good it is too. For once a
commercial company has made a genuine response to a demand from a section of
the market and personally I think they should get all the encouragement we
can give them for having done so. After all, we're rightly quick enough to
tell them when they get it wrong.
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 04 January 2006 11:29
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Pure radios
I bought myself a sonus for christmas and am extremely inpressed so much so
I'll more than likely buy another for downstairs later in the year. I found
it online for £95 including delivery so you can get it for less than the
£120RRP which RNIB charge without having to register with tapesense. I got
mine within 48 hours of ordering. I'd urge anyone considering getting a DAB
radio to go for the Sonus to proove to Pure that there is a demand and then
they might eventually be able to commercially justify extending the ivox
technology in to other models.
Adrian Higginbotham
Accessibility and inclusion adviser
British Educational Communications and Technology Agency - BECTA
Tel: Direct dial 024 7679 7333 - Internal extension #2287
Email: Adrian.Higginbotham@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.becta.org.uk/
BECTA, Millburn Hill Road, Science Park, Coventry, CV4 7JJ -----Original
Message-----
From: Ian Macrae [mailto:ian.macrae@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 04 January 2006 09:16
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Pure radios
Hi Graham,
The latest news from Pure is disappointing. They have no plans to extend
the iVox speech into other of their products because, they say, it's
performance in terms of sales has been, in their terms disappointing. This
is sad, not least because the most recent addition to their catalogue is a
personal DAB/FM receiver with much the same functionality as The Bug kitchen
model. So you can rewind, pause and record DAB to an SD card. But it's
display is extremely VI unfriendly and it relies more heavily than other
models on menus.
Having said this, in my experience across the board, once you've mastered
the principle of DAB sets, it's pretty easy to apply it.
Cheers now.
Ian
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Graham smith
Sent: 03 January 2006 22:16
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Pure radios
Hi
I have a talking pure radio. Very nice radio)
I now wish to purchase another but with the FM tuner built in. As far as I
can see pure do not make a talking one with this option.
Do any of you use a non talking FM one and is it fairly easy to use with no
sight.
Regards
Graham
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