the Zen stone, is supposed to be about $40 and takes a 2 gb card. They have no screen, thus no menus. 6 buttons on front and is said to be very very blind handy.
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Dale Leavens wrote: > Thanks, I have been there. I can't really figure out all they support though. > Being as I have low tolerance for plugging things in and out and for special > transfer software and all that I rather like the idea of wireless transfer. I > like to carry woodworking magazines about for example, I had been using my > phone by transferring from cd to an SD card then slipping the SD card into > the phone but the card reader/writer died and it was a further pain to have > to plug that in. I might be able to do it now by bluetooth if I can work out > how to select where to copy the files onto the phone but probably the best > answer is an MP3 player in the long run. One I can work without a lot of > fooling about. I do not get my jollies pushing buttons and memorizing > sequences is all. I had heard that many of these units don't use menus but of > course none of that is ever mentioned in the promotional material. > > Thanks. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Terry Klarich > To: [email protected] ; Dale Leavens > Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 12:07 AM > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] MP3 players and accessibility. > > > You want to check out www.rockbox.org. It is open source firmware for many > mp3 players. I have a Iaudio X5 for a few years now. > It works very well. The developers of rockbox are to be commended. > > Terry > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >
