RE: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media Player that Gives Blind and Visually Impaired Near-instant Access to Printed Text

2014-06-01 Thread Adrien Collins
Hi For what it can do, very possible. Regards Adrien -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 3:53 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media Player

HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media Player that Gives Blind and Visually Impaired Near-instant Access to Printed Text

2014-05-30 Thread Dane Trethowan
http://www.prweb.com/releases/blindness-low-vision-tech/HIMS-Inc/prweb11897781.htm ** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 faceTime +61400494862 Fax +61397437954 Twitter: @grtdane

Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media Player that Gives Blind and Visually Impaired Near-instant Access to Printed Text

2014-05-30 Thread Dennis
wow the price isn't anywhare near what i thought it would be. On 5/30/2014 5:17 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote: http://www.prweb.com/releases/blindness-low-vision-tech/HIMS-Inc/prweb11897781.htm ** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone

Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media Player that Gives Blind and Visually Impaired Near-instant Access to Printed Text

2014-05-30 Thread Dane Trethowan
Did you think it would be more expensive? That's a U.S. price, Goodness Knows what it will be by the time it reaches the Land Downunder. On 30 May 2014, at 10:38 pm, Dennis dennis...@gmail.com wrote: wow the price isn't anywhare near what i thought it would be. On 5/30/2014 5:17 AM, Dane

Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media Player that Gives Blind and Visually Impaired Near-instant Access to Printed Text

2014-05-30 Thread Dennis
oh yes! after seeing the cost of the booksence when it came out i figured this thing would cost every bit of $900 to $1000. i just wonder if the media player is better than the booksence was. it has a lot of other features that the booksence does and i just wonder if they are improved or the

Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media Player that Gives Blind and Visually Impaired Near-instant Access to Printed Text

2014-05-30 Thread Dane Trethowan
I can't compare as I've not owned a Booksense however it does seem to me that the Media Player part has some additional functionality, supports more File Types by the sounds of things and you also have the Internet Radio facility but to be perfectly honest about it, I would have preferred

Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media Player that Gives Blind and Visually Impaired Near-instant Access to Printed Text

2014-05-30 Thread Gerardo Corripio
Here in mexico, as with all blindness products, it's expensive! Almost 8900 Pesos with which I could buy several IPhones! El 30/05/2014 09:02 a.m., Dennis escribió: oh yes! after seeing the cost of the booksence when it came out i figured this thing would cost every bit of $900 to $1000. i

Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media Player that Gives Blind and Visually Impaired Near-instant Access to Printed Text

2014-05-30 Thread Dennis
i agree with that. i will say that i'm impressed that they made the hardrive 16gb so you don't have to run out and buy more sd cards. On 5/30/2014 9:26 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote: I can't compare as I've not owned a Booksense however it does seem to me that the Media Player part has some

Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media Player that Gives Blind and Visually Impaired Near-instant Access to Printed Text

2014-05-30 Thread Dane Trethowan
Really? In Australia this product would cost around 1 cheaper iPhone but that's really not the point in my opinion. Ask people with iPhones how successfully they've mastered OCR Apps for that device and see what sort of an answer you get. This isn't knocking the iPhone in any way at all, its

Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media Player that Gives Blind and Visually Impaired Near-instant Access to Printed Text

2014-05-30 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Not sure what the price would be in sweden but i guess 8000 crowns. Not fun as it is fun to have electronics-). /A 30 maj 2014 kl. 16:28 skrev Gerardo Corripio gera1...@gmail.com: Here in mexico, as with all blindness products, it's expensive! Almost 8900 Pesos with which I could buy