hi when is the sendero thing out for mobile speak phones
On 16 Apr 2008, at 06:54, erik burggraaf wrote:
I don't know of any, but I suppose I could create some. I have the
equipment here. My current phone is a windows mobile 5 pocket pc
and of course the agonizing wait for mobile speak pocket 2 is on.
If it will help convince you, msp 2 will include a gps option using
sendero for the pocket PC.
MSP has braille support for handytech, alva, humanware and baum
braille displays via bluetooth.
MSP includes built in magnification for sharing info on your phone
with your low vision friends,
MSP 2 will be registered to you, not your phone. When you are ready
for a new phone just deactivate msp on the old one, and activate on
the new.
MSP has support for digital voices from acapella and loquendo, as
well as phonex which is a dektalk product. I am a huge fan of
acapella ryan. I'm using him to read ebooks here. People really
seem to like phonex, but acapella runs nicely on a 400 mhz
processer, and I find the sampling rate of phonex unreasonabley low
considering the speaker that's in my phone.
Final selling point and it's a biggy. Mobile speak works on a
rediculous number of phones.
Here's what I recomend you do.
Go to http://www.codefactory.es.
Click Download, then click download wizard.
Choose the service provider or manufacturer you want, actually I'd
choose the service provider and see which phones they carry.
Once you go through the wizard and have a list of the msp or mss
ready phones from the carrier you want, go into a store and look at
the phones.
Try to get one with a 400 mhz processer or higher if you want to run
the digital voices.
Get your phone get it activated, and then put msp on it for the free
30 day demo period. You won't bring the phone back because of msp.
If you need more info about msp, feel free to write me off list, or
hop onto the msp or mss discussion lists provided by code factory.
They are farely active, especially with msp 2... hopefully... just
in the offing.
BTW, msp2 has been in bata for several months, and code factory was
demoing the sendero gps paired with msp at trade shows this spring,
so you got'a figure it's coming any dang day.
Best,
Erik
On 15-Apr-08, at 7:09 PM, Scott Chesworth wrote:
Would you Erik or any of the other windows mobile fans happen to
know of any decent demos or podcasts or whatever where I can check
out mobile speak in action? I ask because I've got a nokia e51
here, a few days left to decide whether I'm keeping it, and an urge
to try something new. Been on symbian for the last few years...
this phone is the snappiest thing I've used to date, but I'm
wondering whether Windows mobile can top it.
cheers for any heads ups (seems strange writing that as a plural!)
Scott
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Hi, I don't know how talks compairs to mobile speak simbian, but
mobile speak pocket and mobile speak smart phone rule windows
mobile. I missed out on the talks revolution, but I'm not even
the slightest bit tempted to transfer to a simbian phone. My
next phone will be windows mobile, and the one after that, until
they over develop windows mobile and ubuntu mobile comes up to
speed.
Best,
Erik
On 15-Apr-08, at 5:07 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
I have a Nokia 6620 now and am going to upgrade it at the end of
May this year. Two reasons for this. First it's not a 3rd
edition phone and talks to work the web browser needs at least a
2nd edition phone. I have the 3rd edition software but don't
have the 2nd edition software. The second reason I'm going to
upgrade is multimedia or the lack of multimedia. The only thing
this phone can play are .ram files and it can't do .pls files or
any of the other formats on the web. Not at all helpful for
listening to streams or podcasts. The only way I would possibly
even touch mobilespeak is if it can do better accessibility than
talks 3rd edition software can and I've read writing to the
contrary on that count. The phone I now have I'll be giving to
a friend after I key in the unlock code so it can hook up to any
network in the world since he intends to do overseas travel with
it. Other than that, the Nokia 6620 can do email and text
messages just fine. I probably ought to look for a phone that
can download usenet newsgroups too and handle irc but that might
be pushing the envelope a bit too much.
