You can get braille support for most cell phones with the Handy Tech braille
displays. I've got the Motorola Q and MobileSpeak SmartPhone and I could
upgrade the software and buy an HT display, but I can't see myself typing
extensively using the cell phone. The word processing capabilities are
probably very limited.
Remember that MobileSpeak Pocket is sold by HW, so if you chose to go that
route you'll be putting more money into HW's pockets.
Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA.
----- Original Message -----
From: "TaraPrakash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "James Austin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Braille Note" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Fast fall 'from hero to zero':
nearly60HumanWarestaff lose their jobs.
For those who don't need a braille display, smart phone or pocket PC is
the way to go.
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Austin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Braille Note" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Fast fall 'from hero to zero': nearly
60HumanWarestaff lose their jobs.
I completely agree with your stance and sentiments. On 26 Jan 2008, at
23:09, Richard Ehrler wrote:
Well, while I am sorry for the people who lost their jobs, I'm going to
take a wait and see attitude here. It would be great if the change
improved the hardware and software development environment for these
Humanware note takers. I can say that I was less than impressed with
the last several software upgrades due to lots of bugs I thought should
have been caught in beta. If the change allows a better development
team approach to get out less buggy updates and future hardware
improvements like user replaceable batteries, etc., then I am all for
the change. I would also like to see a built in ethernet port and wifi
connectivity in the next hardware update so we don't find ourselves out
of luck trying to find discontinued external supported cards to give us
these functions. If, on the other hand, things get worse, then we all
know where the exit door is. Having said that though, I have to tell
you that I have used several note taker devices from different
manufacturers and found none of them even close to perfect. I keep
thinking that given enough time, they will be able to give us a solid
reliable product that doesn't eat our files or corrupt our data bases
at the worst possible times but nobody has hit that target yet, in my
opinion. Maybe part of the problem is Windows CE itself. I just don't
know but keep hoping for my dream machine to some day arrive bug free.
Now, back to reality!
Richard Ehrler
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