Hi all,
For those of you using the Braille Sense Plus, I would like to
ask you a small favor: could you respond with all the bad things
(missing features, bugs, data corruption, and so on) that you
have found with your unit? I am closer now to being able to get
one of these to replace my BN, but I want to know the "real
story" behind the BSP's operation in daily life before I proceed.
Note that I am a student going into either software design or web
programming, I am not sure which yet, with two years of school
remaining. I know the technical specs, but no one in my state
has one that I can look at and use first-hand; I have only your
responses and the reviews and podcasts around the Internet to
guide me. I would like to know the following, and sorry it is
such a long list, but then again, it is a lot of money.
1. How annoying constantly pressing the tab and shift-tab key
combos gets?
2. How often can you do things with a shortcut key to avoid
tabbing five times?
3. What can the wordprocessor not handle?
4. What problems do you find when browsing the Internet?
5. How often does the unit lock up, resulting in a reset and
therefore a loss of data?
6. What problems still exist with the email program, even after
the firmware updates?
7. What external device compatibility issues, if any, have you
found?
8. Can Bluetooth do object exchange, and is it stable?
9. Can you browse networks?
10. How is printing as far as formatting, printer support, font
changes, retaining page setup (such as centered lines, line
spacing, etc)?
11. How is the Braille display after months of use?
12. Is Wifi stable, or does it often drop connections, connect
to networks it cannot actually see, you get the idea?
13. Can it take SDHC cards?
14. Does the DSL jack always work properly?
15. How is battery, with and without wifi, bluetooth, and so on?
16. Can you turn on and off speech and braille independently?
17. If you came from a BN, how is the Braille display scrolling?
18. How does it handle translation to and from grade 2?
19. Can one use computer braille languages other than English?
20. How does the LCD display work in real-life applications? It
is a good concept, but is it easy to display what you want, to
turn it off, and so on?
21. How easy is it to buy and install a new battery?
22. If you are a student, what problems have you found in
classes, such as unsupported files, trouble with emails, and the
like?
23. For GWM staff: any plans to incorporate Nemeth, UEB, or
other useful codes?
24. What media file size cannot be played? If you play a 150mb
DVS movie, for example, will it work / will the system bog down
any?
25. How does the unit react to high heat and/or humidity? Cold?
26. How are new lines represented? On the BN, they can be a one
or two cell intentation on the display, or an ed sign followed by
a p. I always set it to indent one cell, since there is no other
reason for the display to ever indent in text, so any indent is a
new line and it feels more like a Brailled document and makes
more sense, to me at least.
27. Is there a limit to the number attachments in an email? The
BN will not send more than 7, I believe.
28. Technical: what Javascript does the unit support? For
example, the BN supports onload, onunload, and onclick, but not
onchange, onfocus, onkeypress, and the rest.
29. How is filling out fields on the BSP?
30. Have you run into issues where keys would stick or in any
other way not work?
31. What version of JS does the browser have? Will it support
dhtml (the innerHTML method on objects)?
32. Overall, how do you like your unit for what you do with it?
Please tell me anything you do not like about the unit, even if I
did not cover it?
You can reply off-list to avoid Raul's or Jeremy's wrath (JK
guys). Thanks in advance for any responses.
Have a great day,
Alex
