[Reader-users] knfb reader hardware

[Kevin Jones]

Someone wrote on this list they talked to tech support about what the 
reader was made of, wonder what they learned. Here's what I learned, and 
I have the newer version of the hardware. The camera is a canon 
powershot sd20. It sells for about $250 has auto focus but no zoom, 5 
mega-pixels.
The pda for th ereader is the loox 560n from Fujitsu-siemens, a very 
nice pocket pc. The pcocessor runs at 624mhz which is the fastest 
processor for a pocket pc to date. The ppc also has built-in gps, too 
bad we can't use it. They picked this model because out of all the 
pocket pcs only those by Fujitsu have usb host, all the rest only have 
usb client. The other interesting thing is Fujitsu doesn't even sell any 
of their pocket pc line in north America, you can only buy them in 
Europe and Asia.
  The ppc sells for about $700. I would love if the knfb reader could 
co-exist with a screen reader like mobile speak pocket, so you could 
both use the pda, and use th ereader even if that decision was made 
during a soft reset.
Kevin