Ottawa Canada Dear Sharon and list:
If you truly believe a PDA with Braille display from Freedom Scientific, G. W. Micro, Level Star or someone else will be better for you than your BrailleNote, then as it is a free country, you can vote with your wallet and sell your BrailleNote on the open market and buy the other product. If enough people do this, Humanware will either go broke or have to seriously change its product offerings and also its way of announcing new products etc. But please look before you leap! You may find the other products have their own shortcomings, probably different than the Humanware ones, possibly less bothersome, possibly worse. Yes, Access Technology for the blind is expensive. If you want to see other stuff that is expensive as the devil, go shopping for a wheelchair, especially an electrically powered one, and add a TOSC or Sip and Puff control system for it for say a low function Quadriplegic, say a C1 or C2. That stuff is space age technology, but you pay for it like you are NASA! Good luck and happy shopping. My personal recommendation is to ask for a hands-on trial of the product BEFORE you purchase one and do try each and every feature that is important to you. If they can't demonstrate a feature that is important to you for some reason, then consider that feature, no how much their sales literature says it is fantastic is not available to you. Is this being harsh on the seller or demonstrator? No, but it does make them prove to you that each feature you want to use actually works the way you think it should. And use this standard of performance even with Humanware! If they cannot prove it works, then assume it is broken! Brian Brian K. Lingard E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +1 (613) 247-0665 Mobile: +1 (613) 725-6602 New York, NY Tel: +1 (646) 797-2862 FAX: +1 (613) 247-9998 Skype: ve3yiab2ji15 This message composed on Dell laptop. ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
