Hi group, I can't speak for anyone else
but, I've played with the FM radio on
the BN fPower and it doesn't work very
well in our area either. I can just
barely pick up our local station on it.
Personally, I'd like to see another
feature on future BNS instead of FM
radio unless they improve it.
There is so much FM radio available
such as our personal radios, on the net
and everywhere else, why waiste that
technology?
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From: Kevin Chao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "'Bn list'"
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Date sent: Wed, 7 May 2008 22:54:09
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Subject: FW: [Braillenote] Initial
BrailleNote Impressions
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tina B.
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Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 6:15 PM
To: Kevin Chao
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Initial
BrailleNote Impressions
Speaking of the fm radio, does anyone
know how strong it is? I was playing
with it today both on the way home and
here at home, and my small pocket
radio which is analog tuning picks up
more than the bn radio does. i'm
loving the mp 3 player though!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Chao"
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To: "'Grant Hardy'"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 5:29 PM
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] Initial
BrailleNote Impressions
Grant,
Your evaluation of the BrailleNote was
really nice to read and detailed.
It
looks like that a HumanWare staff
commented about the word issue that
you described and am sure saw some of
the other issues as well. I
would like to know if you are using
earphones/speakers when using the
FM Radio. The reason this is
important is because the
earphones/speaker cord act as antennas.
It
is possible to have earphones plugged
in and still use the built-in
speakers on the BrailleNote. Press
ENTER with S wwhen in the FM Radio
and when earphones/speakers are plugged
in.
Kevin
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Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 2:08 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Braillenote] Initial
BrailleNote Impressions
Hello All:
Last Friday, I received my shiny new
BrailleNote mPower.
I'd like to take a moment to give you
my initial impressions of this
notetaker, if you're interested.
Before I do so, though, I would like
to say that I have found it far
superior to the notetaker I was
previously using. Its responsiveness,
braille support, ease of use,
multilingual support, and documentation
are all far better than my
previous notetaking device.
I have just a few observations,
however.
The BrailleNote's Microsoft Word
support really needs some work - in
fact, I would say that improving the
support for Microsoft Word files
within the next release of KeySoft is
absolutely essential. To my
horror, I was unable to open a simple
Rich Text file produced with
Microsoft Word (and thus, containing MS
Word
tags) from which I needed to give a
presentation, today; consequently
I had to rush to a computer to save it
in plain text. This is
unfortunate.
Aside from the flaws with Microsoft
Word files, I find KeyWord to be a
pleasure to work with: I love being
able to deal with a multi-level
directory structure right within
KeyWord, and I find KeyWord's braille
translation and formatting features to
be excellent - though it would
be good to have the option of setting a
specific font type and size in
addition to the style.
I was disheartened to see the
inaccessible registration scheme that
Humanware has put into place. I
received a print registration card
and had to get a sighted person to fill
it out for me - isn't this
ironic? It actually creates a rather
bad initial impression!
The BrailleNote plays far more streams
than my previous notetaker
could handle, though there are still
some which clearly should play
that produce errors. Here is an
example.
http://scfire-nyk-aa02.stream.aol.com:80
/stream/1074
(I should note that I've written to
Humanware's technical support
regarding this issue and have gotten no
response within three
days.)
A disappointment was the FM Radio. Its
reception makes using the
radio hardly worth it.
On the plus side, though, I've very
much enjoyed the memo-recording
functionality that's present in the
BrailleNote.
There are just enough settings to give
me all the control that I could
want!
KeyWeb should have a setting to
separate links onto their own lines,
and a few websites I've tried don't
work properly in KeyWeb, but aside
from that, I like it a lot.
So, while the BrailleNote needs some
work, and the registration
procedure needs a facelift, I still
like it enormously. I shall share
more in the future!
Cheers,
Grant
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