[bookport] Re: bookport needs a speaker:
- From: "Richard Ring" <ring.richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 10:49:19 -0500
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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