[Dtb-talk] Bookport VS PlexTalk Pocket?

[Dan Burke]

Dave's right. The hardware is the same. The firmware is somewhat
different.  I believe that the recording part of the firmware was
unchanged by APH, but the UI for reading and managing books was
modified a fair bit from the Pocket's.  At least from the original UI
that the Pocket used, which is my experience.  I found the Bookport
Plus UI to be much more intuitive and made much better use of the
keypad, mimicking the old BookPort's ease-of-use, especially on the
fly.

I have to charge my BPP every day, however, which isn't a plus in my
mind. The Pocket is the same as far as that goes.
Dan


On 3/12/12, Andrews, David B (DEED) <david.b.andrews at state.mn.us> wrote:
> The Book Port Plus and the Plextalk Pocket are physically identical.  The
> software they run is somewhat different -- although it is more the same than
> different.  It has been a while since I compared the two -- a couple years,
> and as I recall one thing was how you navigate books.  As I recall with the
> BP Plus you use 3 keys, like 1 2 and 3 to navigate by the previous, current
> or next unit.  The row of keys you choose determines the unit, that is 1 2
> and 3 do something, 4 5 and 6 by another unit greater than previous unit.
>
> I am sure there are other differences, just don't recall off top of my head.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Dale Leavens
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 10:29 AM
> To: Discussion of Digital Talking Books
> Subject: [Dtb-talk] Bookport VS PlexTalk Pocket?
>
> Am I correct in my understanding that the BookPort is the same as the
> PlexTalk Pocket?
>
> If so are there substantial differences in the software and what might some
> of those be?
>
> Thanks for any enlightenment.
>
> Dale Leavens.
>
>
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