[bookport] Re: Opinion Needed

  • From: "Marlaina Lieberg" <marlaina@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 14:03:26 -0800

Hi Sandy.  Well, personally i might, but generally, I don't think we'd be
asked to do that.  i think they are asking for future hardware releases I
suspect.

Marlaina
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sandy Licht" <slicht@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 2:01 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Opinion Needed


> How would going to springs effect those of us who have Bookports now?  We
> aren't going to want to send our Bookports in to have the clips replaced
> with springs, surely.At 03:29 PM 2/5/2005, you wrote:
> >There is a tactile indicator on the floor of the battery compartment now.
> >My concern about it is that it is very small, and I think perhaps for the
> >person with decreased sensitivity, difficult to use.  I really hope APH
goes
> >to springs, for this seems to be the easiest for everybody to use without
> >concern about the ability to either remember which way the battery should
> >go, or the ability to have enough sensation in the fingertips.  I just
think
> >the spring is a much more universally easy to use method.
> >
> >
> >Marlaina Lieberg
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Scott Howell" <n3byy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 4:48 AM
> >Subject: [bookport] Re: Opinion Needed
> >
> >
> > > Larry,
> > >
> > > Not sure if ths is of any value. I haven't had a spring break, but I
> > > imagine it can happen and they do seem a little more touchy perhaps,
but
> > > as far as the clips, what about this idea. Either
> > > 1. use a concave surface for the positive or negative contact
> > > or
> > > 2. perhaps a tactile indicator on the floor of the case that would
> > > notify you as to the negative/positive contact.
> > > Just a thought.
> > >
> > > Scott
> > >
> > >
> > > >What do you all think of the merits of spring based battery
connections
> >vs =
> > > >the clip type connectors currently used on Book Port?
> > > >
> > > >One appealing thing about the springs, of course, is the fact that it
is
> >=
> > > >easier to identify the correct orientation of the battery, but what
about
> >=
> > > >the possibility of damage to springs?  The clips don't seem nearly as
> >easy =
> > > >to break.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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