[Reader-users] the phone and knfb reader

[David Evans]

Dear Terri,

I was not responding to you, but Will's message.
No offense met, but "scanning" just wasn't the proper term and he was 
talking like we are all a bunch of jerks for even considering the new 
KNFB-Mobile.

David Evans, NFBF
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]" <powerst at dcpcepn.nci.nih.gov>
To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list" 
<reader-users at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Reader-users] the phone and knfb reader


> David Evins;
> I do not even know why you made this comment.  I did not say anything
> about scanning.  I was just trying to get across the point that no
> matter what model you use, your patern of steps to take a picture and
> listen to it will be broken.  I stated going back to the top of the
> page, because most people want to refresh themselves as to where they
> were, not that you can not continue where you stopped.  I know if I was
> interupted by a phone call, I would want to refresh my memory as to
> where I stopped.
> Terry Powers
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Evans [mailto:drevans at bellsouth.net]
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 8:56 PM
> To: Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list
> Subject: Re: [Reader-users] the phone and knfb reader
>
>
> Dear All,
>
> Who said that the reader scans a page?  It digitally photographs the
> page and then processes it.
> The inage is still held in the memoery and not lost.
> You can stop the reading of a document and take your call and then come
> right back to where you were.
> Don't make it complicated.  It works very  well.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]" <powerst at dcpcepn.nci.nih.gov>
> To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list"
> <reader-users at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 1:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [Reader-users] the phone and knfb reader
>
>
>> Good one Mike.  No matter whether you are using the reader or the new
>> cell phone reader, when a call comes in, you still have to stop
> reading
>> and take the call.  After the call, you will need to start over at the
>> top of the page.  It makes no difference what model you are using,
> still
>> your reading path is broken.
>>
>> Terry Powers
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mike Freeman [mailto:k7uij at panix.com]
>> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 6:21 PM
>> To: Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list
>> Subject: Re: [Reader-users] the phone and knfb reader
>>
>> Insofar as your judgment of what we know and what we do not, it
> strikes
>> me that you are an excellent case of the pot calling the kettle black.
>>
>> Insofar as the phone is concerned, you can take a phone call and deall
>> with it and be right back reading again as soon as you're done.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>  From: william lomas
>>  To: Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list
>>  Cc: james jolley
>>  Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 4:07 AM
>>  Subject: [Reader-users] the phone and knfb reader
>>
>>
>>  hi guys
>>
>>
>>  has anyone thought of this?
>>  1. if you are using the KNFB reader mobile, what happens if you have
> a
>>  phone call whilst scanning?
>>  2. how can you say that using a phone as a gps, PDA, reader, etc. it
>>  is not practical half you guys are dum and half asleep
>>  that PDA has a lot more potential, the classic, wake up and smell the
>>  coffie and i have a point and you all know it, stop keep thinking you
>>  right all the time you lot have no idea. that PDA is 620 MHZ the n82
>>  is so much slower in terms of processing power
>>  will
>>
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