Pretty good summary I'd say. The only thing I believe that I understood
differently was the battery life. My understanding was 16 to 20 hours
straight audio playback and about 40 hours of straight synthesized speech
reading.
--Warmest regards,
--Rick Alfaro
--rick.alfaro@xxxxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Bruce Toews
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 2:58 PM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: I wasn't impressed.
I'll try to do Larry justice here.
1. Thinner unit. This is why the unit cannot take standard batteries.
2. On-the-fly speed adjustment something they're working on, one of the
first things they want to implement.
3. Microphone jack.
4. Some type of built-in microphone, right now it looks like a stereo
mike.
5. Used SD cards.
6. Supports more file formats.
7. Recording will have user-definable file attributes.
8. Will support the NLS format at some point.
9. Approximately 40 hours of audio listening on one battery charge 10.
Battery will charge when BP is connected to computer, unit can be operated
while connected to computer.
11. Uses USB 2 for faster transfer
12. Stereo channel-swapping issue resolved.
13. No belt clip on actual unit.
14. Issues with some USB port chipsets hopefully resolved 15. Much more
memory room for enhancements and upgradability.
Bruce
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:32:57 -0500, "Richard Ring"
<richard.ring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
Is there anyone who would be willing to summarize what is new and
different about the new Bookport? I frankly didn't have time to
listen to Main Menu, and I probably won't for a while, I am having
guests for the next ten days.
So, if someone would simply say something about the new features, that
would be wonderful.
From what I've gathered, the unit will be thinner, it will support SD
cards (so easy to lose) and it will have a rechargeable battery. It
will still have Doubletalk, and it will recharge from USB.
I may not even be right about what I've said, but that is what I could
glean from the comments I read on this list.
Does anyone else know anything significant about its new features?
-----Original Message-----
From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of PAMELA RADER
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 1:47 PM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: I wasn't impressed.
We will continue to support the old one or current Book Port until
parts run out. We can't make anymore changes to this one, because
we've reached the limit on what we can do to it and parts are either
being obsoleted or too expensive to obtain and would raise the price.
The reason for the Design Change on the battery is that the new Book
Port will be thinner and regular batteries won't fit into it.
Pamela Rader, TECHNICAL SUPPORT
American Printing House For The Blind
1839 Frankfort Ave.
Louisville, KY 40206
PHONE: 1-800-223-1839, Ext. 307
>>> rustys.lists@xxxxxxxxx 03/14/07 11:25AM >>>
I didn't hear any commentary about how long they would support it,
just that they would. The deal with APH is that they don't do all the
fixes themselves.
When I had to get the USB plug fixed on mine they had to send it back
to Springer I'm guessing. It wasn't cheap either! I think they
replaced the board $125.00 I got the idea that, though there are
changes, there are many things about the bookport which will be the
same. Lary mentioned that the footprint is the same size, same keypad.
Same speech chip. they're choosing a special battery because, Lary
said, it works best with bookport. It seems like they may be using
some of the same internal architecture. I don't know that to be the
case, but it seems like they're sooping up the old BP with things
which can be taken advantage of in the future.As I understand it,
they've run out of internal memory for firmware on BP 1. That seems
like something which they're working on. It seems like SD is being
used because CF is getting more expensive.
So, it seems like they're taking a good thing and just making it
better, not redesigning it from the ground up.
Rusty
On 3/14/07, Robert Acosta <boacosta@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> But how long will APH support Bookport 1? I understood that they
would do
> so as long as they had the parts. Am I correct here?
> Robert Acosta
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: lana
> To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 3:51 AM
> Subject: [bookport] Re: I wasn't impressed.
>
>
> I'm not so down. Am disapointed they won't have overdrive at
first. Will
> wait till they do; otherwise it's too much like what I already have.
> Consolation for Suzanne.
> I'm staying openminded on the batteries. The speach isn't a big
issue. I
> may still prefer external speakers, but it will be nice not to have
to mess
> with headphones when I want to check something quick.
> I was a lot more impressed with the icon braille than I had
expected.
> Let's all wait till the real thing comes out and some of the bugs
are
> worked out before becoming supercritics.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Phil Parr
> To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 3:20 AM
> Subject: [bookport] I wasn't impressed.
>
>
> Well, I listened to main minue last night on a c b radio and
> I
was
> singularly disappointed. We will still have that same old speech
program
> and, really not much more. Yes a stereo mike and the ability to
change the
> recording settings but, I herd nothing about a line in jack.
> The charging set up will be different but I really don't see
that as
> an improvement. With book port one you can get some rechargeable
double ayes
> and just change them when you need to. With the new one you half to
by a
> proprietary battery from the printing house or leave your computer
> on
while
> the unit charges. Yes one can plug it in to an a c outlet but, if
your in an
> airport that is out of the question.
> Did I get the wrong impression or is the new one upgradeable
just
> like the old one or what.
> Think I will just limp along with my old one and wait for
> book
port
> three.
>
> Phil Parr.
>
>
>
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