We are not committed to this weak link at all. The memo feature's = weakness is partially harware related though, and we desire to make this = better in a future hardware revision. >>> jerry.neufeld@xxxxxxxxxx Sunday, August 01, 2004 8:41:41 AM >>> While just about everyone, including myself, agrees about the excellence = of the BookPort as it now stands, assuredly one of the most useful devices released in recent years, we also concur, as do a p h people, that the = voice quality of memos is less than poor. From what one gathers from Larry, = Robert and Pamela, we are to be saddled with this problem, no matter future improvements in software. This suggests that the sampling rate can only be changed if the mother board is accordingly revised, not an altogether appealing prospect for those of us who already have units. I suspect that this unusually low rate was determined to save space on what was, then, expensive flash cards. Given price drops for flash cards, most of us well beyond 64mb now, I suggest that a p h see to it that appropriate changes = to the hardware be made, preserving other features, so that memos are intelligible in any place but a quiet room. Nearly every digital memory = unit sold, low-cost or more expensive, allows for varying sample rate, the = better quality the speech, the greater amount of memory. We could very easily = have good quality memory in the BookPort with now minimal cost to us in terms = of memory. A question. Why are the people at a p h so firmly committed to = what all of us recognize as a very week link in an otherwise very impressive chain? Jerry jerry.neufeld@xxxxxxxxxx=20