[Dtb-talk] anyone going to buy the new Stream?

[Jim Barbour]

Let me point out that the purpose of the Wi-Fi is not for geeks. When the services are ready, this should be a very simplified way of downloading books to stream without using the companion. it isn't ready yet, but when it is just to be a very nice feature for those who don't want to deal with the fiddliness we have today.

Jim

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On Feb 6, 2013, at 4:40 PM, "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com> wrote:

> I rather agree with you. The Acapela text-to-speech voices would be nice and
> a smaller physical footprint would be nice. However, at present, I see
> little advantage for wifi except possibly for people who aren't geeks and
> are waiting for somewhat automatic download of NLS and Bookshare books. But
> I'm perfectly satisfied with my current stream and probably won't upgrade
> until it breaks.
> 
> Mike Freeman
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dtb-talk [mailto:dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Mike
> Gilmore
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 3:26 PM
> To: dtb-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [Dtb-talk] anyone going to buy the new Stream?
> 
> I received an e-mail from Humanware a couple of weeks ago regardning the new
> Stream. I e-mailed them and asked if they would have a trade-in program of
> older Streams like they do with the BrailleNote. I was told no on the
> trade-in, which makes sense because the BrailleNote is over $5,000 and
> average folks can't afford to buy the latest greatest thing sometimes
> whereas the Stream is nothing costwise in comparison.
>  
> I love my Stream and it works fine and I figure that I can just update the
> software on it as needs be and don't really need the use of wifi. I was
> wondering what other Stream users think about the new Stream--pros and cons.
>  
> Thanks.
>  
> Mike
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