Hi Johnathan, I understand why you want to help people get the most out of their present hardware, not upgrade the year after the initial release, leaving customers with a heavy tab if they want to keep current with the future upgrades of their pda. But as somebody who is still on the fence when it comes to whether or not I will get a pda, and as one who is highly unlikely to be able to justify the expenditure of several thousands of dollars for the PK, I'm a tad chagrinned that there are hardware limitations with the present crop of braillenote Voicenote devices which preclude implementation of some of the new features. You mentioned specifically playing media simultaneously with doing another task, as well as the lack of stereo audio capabilities that the bn/vn will not enjoy. It also seems to me that the slot compliment on the vn/bn, with the pcm cia and one flash, instead of two flash, is less useful and will become more so as time passes. So I guess I'm left wondering about the medium term future, whether you expect the present bn/vn in its present hardware configuration to keep on being produced, which would essentially mean that those of us who couldn't afford or really didn't need braille would be stuck in a lesser track, if you will, because of the hardware limitations imposed by the older unit's processor and configuration. You guys have done a really good job in managing to pack a lot of new features onto the existing platform. But a time must come when you'll need to move to a more up-to-date one, faster processor, different slot compliment, more memory, etc, or only PK users will be able to take advantage of innovations down the line, I fear. Mary
