[Electronics-talk] Mobile Speak Smartphone and Mobile Speak Pocket V2.1

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Caroline Ragot - Marketing Director
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Mobile Speak Smartphone & Pocket V2.1


Code Factory Releases V2.1 of Mobile Speak Smartphone and Mobile Speak Pocket




Support for more than 15 new devices, full support for Windows Mobile 
6.1, support for the new Bookshare format and many more new features.


Terrassa (Barcelona), Spain, February 18, 2009

In the last few years the number of users of Code Factory's screen 
readers for Windows Mobile devices has been skyrocketing. Code 
Factory is currently the only company developing screen readers for 
more than one mobile operating system: Symbian, Windows Mobile and 
Blackberry from RIM. Mobile Speak Smartphone and Mobile Speak Pocket 
are the two versions of Code Factory's screen reader available for 
Windows Mobile devices.

One of the great features unique to Mobile Speak Smartphone and 
Mobile Speak Pocket is the User Centered Licensing System released 
more than a year ago, which allows users to deactivate their license 
from a device and reactivate it in a new supported device without any 
additional cost.  This new licensing system has encouraged our 
customers to frequently switch from one device to another; that is 
why our development team has worked very hard to support more than 15 
new smartphones and Pocket PCs. The other big competitive advantage 
of choosing a Windows Mobile Code Factory screen reader is the 
opportunity to experience traveling and walking around with Mobile 
Geo, Code Factory's award-winning GPS application.  V2.1 of Mobile 
Speak Smartphone and Mobile Speak Pocket will be compatible with V1.5 
of Mobile Geo, planed to be released by March 2009.


NEW DEVICES supported by V2.1

Version 2.1.205 of Mobile Speak Smartphone supports five new smartphones:
    * Samsung SGH-i200,
    * Palm Treo 500,
    * Palm Treo 500V from Vodafone,
    * HTC S640 and
    * HTC S740.

Version 2.1.205 of Mobile Speak Pocket supports eleven new Pocket PCs:
    * AT&T Samsung Epix,
    * HP iPAQ 910 (Business Messenger),
    * Samsung SCH-i760 from Verizon Wireless,
    * HP iPAQ 600 Business Navigator,
    * Sprint HTC Touch Pro,
    * AT&T HTC Fuze,
    * Verizon xv6850 Touch Pro,
    * Sprint HTC Touch Diamond,
    * Palm Treo 800W from Sprint,
    * Palm Treo Pro, and
    * Asus P750.



HIGHLIGHTED FEATURES of V2.1




  Both Mobile Speak Smartphone and Mobile Speak Pocket V2.1.205 include:

    * Full support for Windows Mobile 6.1.

    * Improvements to Code Factory's built-in Braille reader 
application, also called BRF reader:
        * Support for the new Bookshare format. To learn more about 
the new Bookshare library visit 
<http://www.benetech.org/about/press_releases/PR_2009-01-26_Bookshare.shtml>http://www.benetech.org/about/press_releases/PR_2009-01-26_Bookshare.shtml.
        * Added a Find function that lets you enter a search string 
using computer Braille or literary (grade 1 or 2) Braille.
        * New options for adding bookmarks and jumping to a selected bookmark.
        * With Mobile Speak Pocket, pressing DoubleTap4 in a BRF file 
will now close it.
        * In Mobile Speak Smartphone as well as Mobile Speak Pocket, 
you can access the Braille Reader through a dedicated icon located in 
the Mobile Speak control panel.
        * To learn more about the BRF Reader visit 
<http://www.codefactory.es/en/products.asp?id=241>http://www.codefactory.es/en/products.asp?id=241. 

    * New upgrade installation process

This new upgrade installation process allows the user to install a 
new build (or reinstall the same one that is already on the device), 
without first uninstalling Mobile Speak and its components if they 
are already running on the device. There is no need to stop Mobile 
Speak/Magnifier to do this.

    * Enhanced support for Office OneNote

You can install Office OneNote on your device if you connect it to a 
computer with Microsoft Office 2007. Just launch OneNote 2007 on your 
PC when the device is already connected via ActiveSync or Windows 
Mobile Device Center, and you will be prompted to install OneNote 
Mobile. Mobile Speak Pocket and Mobile Speak Smarpthone now read the 
list of saved OneNote files, read all menu and toolbar option names 
rather than the bitmap number for some, and inform you if there is a 
sound clip inserted in the note.


V2.1.205 also features new settings and commands for both Mobile 
Speak Smartphone and Mobile Speak Pocket

    * New settings and commands for Mobile Speak Smartphone
        * Two new commands for the Default command layout: Home+4 
will open the Start menu wherever you are. Home+Long4 will return 
focus to the Today screen.

        * The user dictionary has been redesigned. It can be opened 
by pressing Home+4 in the Settings command layout. It is now possible 
to navigate the list of pronunciation entries using the Left/Right 
arrow keys; pressing the left softkey will now close this dialog and 
automatically save your new entries and changes to existing ones; and 
the right softkey will now open the menu of options, including 
"Cancel" which will let you exit the user dictionary without saving 
any entries or modifications.

        * Supported cell editing in Excel Mobile: After opening the 
Excel file, select "Edit mode" from the menu opened by the right 
softkey. Navigate to the cell you wish to edit, and select "Cell 
text" from the "Edit" sub-menu in the right softkey menu. This should 
place you in an edit field where you can use the left and right arrow 
keys to position the cursor at the point where you wish to start 
editing. Press the left softkey to save your revision to the cell 
entry, or select "Cancel" from the right softkey menu.

        * New "Character repeat filter" option. You will find this 
option in Control Panel > Modes > Text Processing. This is checked by 
default and so when you have a string of repeated symbols like 20 
dashes, Mobile Speak Smartphone will only say "dash" three times.

        * New help mode: Press Home+Long5 in any layout and in any 
screen to get context-sensitive help. Press the left softkey to close 
this screen. Only available in English.
    * New settings and commands for Mobile Speak Pocket
        * New command for switching between existing command layouts: 
Press Alt+Tab  (Default and Mobile Geo layout, if Mobile Geo is 
installed and running).

        * Easier way to enable and disable response to screen taps 
respectively: Use the commands Alt+Ctrl+Shift+Left and 
Alt+Ctrl+Shift+Right, rather than the touch screen itself.

        * New input method called Touch Keypad: This method is used 
in the same way as the Touch Virtual Keyboard input method, but the 
screen orientation remains in portrait mode. There are two keypad 
types: Numeric and Letters. When this input method is activated, the 
Numeric keypad is selected by default. You switch between keypad 
types by pressing the Mobile Speak Pocket Control key. The Numeric 
keypad has five rows with three keys each. The first four rows are 
similar to a 12-key dial-pad with 1,2,3 in the first row, 4,5,6 in 
the next, 7,8,9 in the third, and *,0,# in the fourth. The bottom row 
has keys for the Left softkey, Backspace key, and Right softkey (from 
left to right). If you wish to long-press a key in the first four 
rows of this keypad, press the MSP Shift key to switch to the 
"Numeric: Long" mode. Pressing the Shift key again will switch you 
back to the mode for short key presses. On the other hand, the 
Letters keypad has seven rows with five keys each. Letters are not 
arranged in QWERTY or any language-dependent keyboard layout. 
Instead, you have the letters 'a' through 'e' in the first row, 'f' 
through 'j' in the second, 'k' through 'o' in the third, 'p' through 
't' in the fourth, and 'u' through 'y' in the fifth. Then the sixth 
row has the following keys: 'z', period, apostrophe, dash, and the 
Symbol key. The last row has the following keys: Space, comma, 
ampersand, forward slash, and Backspace. When you press the Mobile 
Speak Pocket Shift key while the Letters keypad is selected, then you 
switch to the "Uppercase" mode. The first five rows will input the 
uppercase equivalents of the letters from 'a' through 'y'. The sixth 
row has the following keys: 'Z', colon, at sign, underscore, and the 
Symbol key. The last row has the following keys: space, question 
mark, open parenthesis, close parenthesis, and Backspace. To exit the 
Touch Keypad, press the Mobile Speak Pocket Alt key.

To read the full list of new features and improvements made for V2.1, 
visit 
<http://www.codefactory.es/descargas/family_1/product_3/Whats_new_pocketpc.html>http://www.codefactory.es/descargas/family_1/product_3/Whats_new_pocketpc.html 
for Mobile Speak Pocket and
<http://www.codefactory.es/descargas/family_1/product_2/whats_new_smartphone.html>http://www.codefactory.es/descargas/family_1/product_2/whats_new_smartphone.html 
for Mobile Speak Smartphone.

New users are invited to download a free 30-day trial version of 
Mobile Speak Pocket and Mobile Speak Smartphone and discover how 
Mobile Speak can convert an otherwise inaccessible mainstream device 
into an essential communications tool. Users of previous versions of 
Mobile Speak Pocket and Mobile Speak Smartphone are welcome to 
install the V2.1 update free-of-charge and enjoy the latest product 
enhancements. To obtain the download, follow the wizard at 
<http://www.codefactory.es/en/downloads.asp?id=44>http://www.codefactory.es/en/downloads.asp?id=44. 


To read more about Mobile Speak Smartphone, visit 
<http://www.codefactory.es/en/products.asp?id=36>http://www.codefactory.es/en/products.asp?id=36. 


To read more about Mobile Speak Pocket, visit 
<http://www.codefactory.es/en/products.asp?id=98>http://www.codefactory.es/en/products.asp?id=98. 


To learn more about the other screen readers developed by Code 
Factory, visit 
<http://www.codefactory.es/en/products.asp?id=16>http://www.codefactory.es/en/products.asp?id=16. 


To buy Code Factory's software, contact your closest distributor. A 
list is available at: 
<http://www.codefactory.es/en/purchase.asp?id=54>http://www.codefactory.es/en/purchase.asp?id=54. 





  About Code Factory

Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Terrassa/Barcelona, Spain, Code 
Factory is the global leader committed to the development of products 
designed to eliminate barriers to the accessibility of mobile 
technology for the blind and visually impaired. Today, Code Factory 
is the leading provider of screen readers, screen magnifiers, and 
Braille interfaces for the widest range of mainstream mobile devices 
including Symbian-based and Windows Mobile-powered Smartphones as 
well as Pocket PC phones and PDAs. Its product line is the only one 
to support phones working on the GSM, CDMA and WCDMA networks. Code 
Factory's success lies in giving excellent customer support and in 
responding immediately to the needs of its end users.

Among Code Factory's customers are well known organizations like 
ONCE, and carriers such as TIM, Vodafone, SFR, Bouygues Telecom and 
AT&T. The company also collaborated with leading TTS providers and 
Braille manufacturers, thus enabling Code Factory to provide 
excellent text-to-speech technology in many languages for Mobile 
Speak products, and to incorporate support for over twenty wireless 
Braille devices into the software.



For more information, feel free to contact Code Factory S.L.:


Code Factory, S.L., Rambla d'Egara 148 2-2, 08221 Terrassa (Barcelona)
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Code Factory, S.L. - 2009

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