I see your points, but a 128mb flash device takes up the same
amount of space as a 4gb device, so I see no size increase. The
power consumption between 416 and, say, 624mhz will probably not
be too much and with replaceable batteries it would hardly be a
problem at all. I would not mind a new motherboard/case; maybe
they could put things in better locations overall, so that the
case does not press in sd cards and cause them to fall out or so
that the case will not break a thumb drive if it is closed while
the device is plugged in. HW needs to at least catch up to, if
not surpass, the currently best devices (voiceSense and PM Omni)
to stay in business, at least the way I see it.
Have a great day,
Alex
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From: "Brian Lingard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "BrailleNote List" <[email protected]
Date sent: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:01:19 -0500
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] Some Possibilities for Future
Developments
Ottawa Canada
Dear Keith and list:
You listed some excellent ideas for enhancements to the
BrailleNote/VoiceNote family of products.
Some problems I see with some of your suggestions are:
-replaceable battery: Will require a hardware change to
the unit's plastic housing and possibly to the circuit boards
inside, but mostly the case.
-faster processor: Good idea, but power consumption increases
geometrically with clock speed. So a 1 GHz processor takes much
more power to run than a 500 MHz processor.
-More memory and bigger Flash disk: Good ideas, but will
increase the bulk of the unit unless highly miniaturized
components are used, and they are expensive as the devil at the
moment.
The HTML e-mail reading, MS Word file etc are software
enhancements. They're probably deliverable, but Humanware has
stated Microsoft keeps changing the spec of their file format
with each release of MS Word!
Great ideas but there are pitfalls on their road to success.
Brian
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