Hello all,
I had my old classic braille display transplanted into a new
BrailleNote Empower BT and it cost me $2700 Australian. When you
can get a main-stream pda with Mobile office and a gps navigation
system in the one package for only $600 aus, it highlights how
expensive it is to be blind.
The most aggravating thing about my new bt is that the reset
button is even harder to use than the one on the old unit -- but
I have to use it even more than I used to, especially using the
browser. I hope Kevin and the other beta testers concentrate on
that module in the future. Some times, the crash is so bad, it
disables the braille display. It takes quite a while -- several
varied resets to correct the problem -- I nearly fainted the
first time, was just about to pack it up and send it off to the
menders.
I would like to see better error trapping, with a message or even
a set of tones that would enable us to provide feedback to
Humanware developers.
Kind regards,
Dave Ransley
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From: "Kevin Chao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] classic qt questions
Date sent: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:46:22 -0600
Ross,
I would have to agree that it is fairly expensive to purchase a
VoiceNote mPower, but think that if you manage to sell your
VoiceNote Classic and pay for the difference, it will do you
wonders in the long run. Well, the price of upgrades is $195 USD
per
upgrade. I am not sure if it is possible to perform the upgrade
from 3.7 to 6.1 by yourself, but it will be possible from 6.1
onwards. Just looking at the upgrades from 6.1 to 7.5, it is
around $1000. This is not accounting for the upgrade of 3.7 to
6.1,
which 6.1 takes two upgrade counts because it is a software as
well as an operating system upgrade.
When I performed a search on upgrade on the HumanWare page, I
found information pertaining to the 6.1 upgrade through the 7.5
upgrade but nothing prior to 6.1. I would recommend visiting the
HumanWare page and searching for, "upgrade."
I would recommend phoning into the HumanWare Australia Office to
get the exact quote on the upgrade.
The CompactFlash card that is in the Classic units is still
current but is slowly being replaced with SD cards, cards that
hold as
much as CompactFlash cards but are the size of a postage stamp
and use less power as well as having a write-protection switch.
Hope this helps
Kevin
Kevin
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ross
McGregor
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 9:35 PM
To: voice note
Subject: [Braillenote] classic qt questions
Hey Kevin and Scott and cathie,
thanks for your replies.
Yeh Kevin, i'm sure the mpower is a very good unit, but I can't
afford that at the moment. I noticed there was a 7.5 classic
upgrade
on the humanware web site, so was wondering about doing that,
but couldn't find out its extra features compared with the 3.7,
or
its cost.
I presume it will update from 3.7 ok?
And I don't know if they make any hardware mods to the classic
when you get that 7.5 version.
Is interesting the mpower is 1995 USD, but in oz is $3500. is a
big jump.
Are their different types of cf card and can you tell me is this
cf 1 still current or is now outdated technology.
I agree the mpower is the way to go, and hopefully I will be able
to get one in the near future.
Thanks again,
Ross.
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