[Reader-users] classic

Sun Feb 3 22:56:57 CST 2008

Dear tribble,

This guy doen't know what he is talking about.
The new reader only cost $2,100.00 out right.

The software to add to the phone is just $1,000.00, but you still need to 
buy the phone, have the filters added and either "talks" or Mobile Speak 
added to have  the reader, accessible cell phone and everything.
The classic is still a good unit and will still do what it was designed for.
They are just some people who are pissed of because they may have gotten the 
last of the line in that model.
The same as some guy who just bought the last 2007 model the day before the 
2008 model car hit the show rooms.
BE happy with what you have as long as it does what it was suppose to do.
No body held a gun to your head to buy it.
You still got it over me as I don't have a unit at all.
Think about how many Blind people out there  wish they had what you have?
You did not lose anything unless you lost your mind.
You still have a great advancement in technology.  Enjoy it and be happy for 
what you have and not for what you don't.
If you really want the new unit.  The NFB has a 3% loan program for the 
purchase of new technology that you can get the papers for from the National 
HQ in Baltimore.  Curtis Chong oversees the program.
The NFB makes no profit on the program and the 3% is placed back into the 
fund to provide other loans.  You
Once you pay your loan off, you can get another one.  I know people who have 
used it as many as 3 times to buy things.
You
don't even have to be a member of the NFB to apply.

David Evans, NFBF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tribble" <lauraeaves at yahoo.com>
To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list" 
<reader-users at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Reader-users] classic

> Well I've only had my reader a few months and that $4100 applies to me as
> well.  I don't think that is quite fair, but such is the rapid evolution 
> of
> technology.
> I think the trade in should be a little better.
> (Wishful thinking.)
> --le
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "J.J. Meddaugh" <jj at bestmidi.com>
> To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list"
> <reader-users at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 2:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [Reader-users] classic
>
>
> I think that's an unfair comparison. If I trade my car in for a new model, 
> I
> don't count the original cost of the car I'm trading in towards the cost 
> of
> the new car.
> The cost of upgrading is really $1,100 compared with more than $2,000 for 
> a
> new user. It's a given that there's a cost to being an early adopter, but
> you've also been able to enjoy the reader for the past year and a half 
> where
> others will just now be joining in.
>
>
>
>
> J.J.
> www.BlindBargains.com
> Deals, news, and resources for the blind and visually impaired
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Keith and Tracy" <hear2c at mchsi.com>
> To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list"
> <reader-users at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 2:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [Reader-users] classic
>
>
>>I get $4100, by doing simple math.  My classic cost me #3000.  The upgrade
>> price is $500, plus the cost of the phone #600.  You have to trade in the
>> classic , which doesn't give you a discount per sae, so you add it all up
>> and it's $4100.00
>>
>> Keith
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "J.J. Meddaugh" <jj at bestmidi.com>
>> To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list"
>> <reader-users at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 1:06 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Reader-users] classic
>>
>>
>>> Where do you get the price of $4100? You're looking at more like $1100
>>> for
>>> the upgrade or $1400 with Mobile Speak or Talks. And of course, the
>>> classic
>>> will still function with its current feature set.
>>>
>>>
>>> J.J.
>>> www.BlindBargains.com
>>> Deals, news, and resources for the blind and visually impaired
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Keith and Tracy" <hear2c at mchsi.com>
>>> To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list"
>>> <reader-users at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 2:01 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Reader-users] classic
>>>
>>>
>>>> as of today, on the KNFB reader listserv, the classic, as it is now
>>>> called,
>>>> will not have updates to the software.  Officials at the KNFB HQ state
>>>> that
>>>> the hardware will not support any more software updates, as they say,
>>>> they
>>>> have tapped out what the hardware can handle.  The phone does not have
>>>> to
>>>> be
>>>> activated, to be used as a phone.  It does have a GPS receiver, which,
>>>> when
>>>> loaded with waypoint software, will allow someone to know where they
>>>> are,
>>>> but I haven't used the software, and don't know how useful it is.  I
>>>> personally think that those who got the classic version are getting
>>>> screwed,
>>>> the upgrade will cost a total of about $4100 US total, so it's kind of 
>>>> a
>>>> kick in the butt for us who decided to help the company out and buy it
>>>> when
>>>> it first came out.  Buyer beware I guess.  The same happened when
>>>> sighted
>>>> people first bought hybrid cars.  The batteries in the engine would
>>>> catch
>>>> fire when they first came out...
>>>>
>>>> Keith
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "william lomas" <lomaswilliam at googlemail.com>
>>>> To: <reader-users at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 11:04 AM
>>>> Subject: [Reader-users] classic
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> hello to all
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I am a potential user of the KNFB reader
>>>>> for some time now here in the united kingdom, i ahve been considering
>>>>> this fabulous sounding product to aid in my indipendance
>>>>> what though is the status going to be if i get the classic, as it is
>>>>> now known. will i get future upgrades
>>>>> if not, why not. not everybody want a mobile phone do they? surely the
>>>>> reader using the classic runs on a much higher specification PDA than
>>>>> any phone?
>>>>> will
>>>>>
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