[Reader-users] Let's get some discussion going

[Cindy Handel]

Well, I really think I need to hear more about what's being released before 
deciding what I might do.  I have a friend, however, who has a lot of 
difficulty with her Reader.  She's an older lady and has trouble installing 
the camera battery and can't do the updates on her own.  So, I don't know if 
the new device might work for her.  I'm looking forward to hearing more 
about it.

Cindy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Jolley" <james.jolley at homecall.co.uk>
To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list" 
<reader-users at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 6:28 AM
Subject: [Reader-users] Let's get some discussion going


Hi folks,

I got to thinking about this after the news regarding the mobile
product line. What do people think to perhaps buying it as a secondary
machine if they could afford it? For me, thinking on what Jim said,
the A and B units surely would continue to have updates as the PDA in
both of them is fast for what we're doing. After all, it doesn't take
600 MHZ or so of processing to do OCR, indeed I remember doing it on
open book years ago with a 486 DX33. In honesty, do people think that
the unit is small enough as it is? Getting these things onto mobiles
is all well and good but as you know, aiming and holding a mobile
phone straight is difficult for some. My only worry about all this
miniaturization is that we may forget that these are reading machines
first and foremost.

What do people think?

Best

-James-
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