I have seen this product and it weighs about 3 to 4 pounds which excluded it
from my list right away. It is a very handsome unit with beautiful spaceous
keys but for all of that, buy a laptop.
Now my friend much preferres that over the pk but I bought the pk because it
has gps now the bs will have it later. Most all of the others except human
will have the gps later and I simply can't wait for later and that was the
key to my deciding to go with the pk.
And boy am I glad I did too.
Mary Ellen Earls
Remember! Today is the Tomorrow you thought about yesterday.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terri Pannett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "BrailleNote list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 10:51 AM
Subject: [Braillenote] BrailleNote compared to BrailleSense
Hi, List,
Has anyone seen the BrailleSense? How does it compare with the
BrailleNote?
I have never seen one, but I have read some of the manual for the
BrailleSense and I can make some observations:
1. The BrailleSense has some software features like Daisy Player and the
ability to record things.
2. It has all the ports of the BN plus two USB ports, one a master port
and one a slave port.
3. The speech is elloquence, and I don't like it as much as Keynote Gold.
I used to use eloquence on my PC and found its voice to be too strident.
4. There is no QWERTY model, a disadvantage to me because I prefer the
QWERTY keyboard, but you can plug in a USB QT keyboard. I think you can
do the same with the BN PK.
5. The manual is not as easy to understand as the BrailleNote's manual.
6. Nothing is mentioned about what braille translator is used nor does
the manual mention what type of software is used to read the programs'
information. The BrailleNote manual states Keysoft is the software which
reads the information and runs the word processor, calculator, etc.
7. All of the BN family will allow you to read sentence by sentence, but
the BrailleSense has no such option.
8. The BN cursor never blinks, but the BrailleSense has blinking cursor.
I hate blinking cursors!
9. The BN has more flexibility fo reading punctuation than the BS.
10. I think there is an easier learning curve for the BN than for the BS,
especially for people like me who aren't used to BT keyboards.
11. The BS's word processor will allow you to create headers and footers,
but it won't let you move or copy sentences and it won't let you turn page
numbering off. Not being able to move/copy sentences is a disadvantage.
I'd rather have that feature than headers and footers.
12. The BS will allow you to use overwrite or insert mode, but when you
are in insert mode, the cursor blinks all the time. I prefer the BN's
still cursor.
13. I like the seamless environment of Keysoft. I wouldn't want to see
dialog boxes and all the other graphics the BS shows.
I conclude that the BN and Keysoft meet my current needs, but I would like
to see improvements in Keymail and Keyweb. I believe the BS probably has
bugs in it, too. For what it's worth, I'm glad I bought the BN and I
don't think the BS would meet my needs as well as the BN does.
Terri Pannett, Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA. Army MARS call sign AAT9PX,
California
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