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

[Alco Canfield]

Nope, not yet.

Alco 

-----Original Message-----
From: reader-users-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:reader-users-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of KAYE KIPP
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 8:12 AM
To: Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list
Subject: Re: [Reader-users] Let's get some discussion going

Maybe I missed something but do we know how much this new device costs?

Kaye
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy Handel" <cindy425 at verizon.net>
To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list" 
<reader-users at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 5:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Reader-users] Let's get some discussion going


> 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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