RE: the Papenmeir device that was supposed to be coming out

[Janina Sajka <janina@afb.net>]

Oh, that device!

I never thought of it as Korean! <grin> Not from Arizona.

Anyway, it was delayed, but it is not dead. With a little luck, it will 
drive the price point on such devices well below $1,000. If this device 
doesn't do it, another one will within a year or two. I expect that, and I 
expect to see competition in devices below $1,000.

The days of ultra expensive devices are all but over. And, the days of 
nothing but text files are over as the Papenmeier/Alva shows. 

Here's what devices today should be expected to do:

Read, edit, file, mail.
Browse the web
Edit documents
Print or braille documents
Play music
Read NISO/DAISY Digital Talking Books

Anybody who doesn't do the last one won't have a market in about 18 
months.



 On Tue, 13 
Nov 2001, Brent Harding wrote:

> It's hear, forget what it was, wasn't it azpower.com or something? This one
> seems to not have speech, think they abandoned it.
> At 01:04 PM 11/13/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >just to add to the competition, isn't there supposed to be another pda type
> >device showing up soon?
> >maybe from Korea?  someone mentioned to me it might run linux as well...
> >
> >thanks,
> >Joel
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com
> >[mailto:blinux-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
> >Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 12:41 PM
> >To: blinux-list@redhat.com
> >Cc: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> >Subject: Re: the Papenmeir device that was supposed to be coming out
> >
> >
> >Look at the web site:
> >
> >http://www.sighted.com/elba2002.html
> >
> >PS: I believe the screen reader in this device is UXDOTS which sells for
> >1000 Euros, supposedly. I would very much like to know more about UXDOTS.
> >In particular, I would like to hear some justification of such a price,
> >especially given that speakup is free. So, what does UXDOTS do that
> >speakup doesn't?
> >
> >To learn about UXDOTS, look at:
> >
> > http://www.c-lab.de/insb/uxdots_eng.htm
> >
> >On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Brent Harding wrote:
> >
> >> 	Is there any more about that Papenmeir device that's supposed to be
> >coming
> >> out soon that runs an embedded form of linux? Will it have line in and
> >> outputs for sound on it? What kind of speech will it use?
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org

Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper,
Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp

Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther
King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at
http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp

Learn how to make accessible software at
http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp