[Electronics-talk] Victor Stream versus iPod Touch

[Ashley Bramlett via Electronics-talk]

Linda,
There is good to both products as everyone has so well pointed out.

Others have excellent points. I'm one who struggles with those touch 
screens.  For instance, I try to use my ipod nano and I thought I touched 
the volume button on the screen and it never works so I use the real button 
on the side of the device and thank goodness for the circle button which 
takes you to your home screen. I've seen the device you have, the ipod 
touch, and its neat because you have a small computer; with email any aps 
you want, and an endless supply of music. Can the device record though?

I am biased toward the blind products because of the ease of use and 
convenience. Yes, if you can get one, I highly recommend a new vr stream.  I 
have the old one and the new ones are even better.
True your current device can do most everything the victor does, but it will 
not manage your files so easily. the victor products use a bookshelf 
structure; press the bookshelf key to toggle between types of data; a shelf 
for talking books, podcasts, music, text files, etc.
its laid out like a phone keypad making it easy to be oriented and press 
buttons you want.

Once in the bookshelf simply press the next and previous buttons which is 
keys 4 and 6 to move through your books, podcasts, or whatever you have in 
the bookshelf.

Here are some reasons to consider one.

*Instantly get your newsline papers every morning via the wifi connection; 
my understanding is they come up every morning when you select which ones 
you want. as Tracy said, you can view articles and navigate easier on it 
versus the aps. not that I use newsline via the victor, but I've heard this 
from many people.

*Easily bookmark your talking book files and other daisy files and even put 
two bookmarks on a chunk of text; its called a highlight bookmark. I've done 
this and its very useful to go back and find useful data in my texts such as 
key words with definitions.

*use the clear male or female text to speech voice  to read your text files; 
it supports many files such as .docx, .rtf, .txt and html. I think the new 
one may even do pdf. I think its clearer than voice over.

*Easily record your meetings or notes in stereo quality with the simple 
press of a button; saves instantly with the press of a button when you stop 
recording.
*better battery life I believe; like 15 hours.
*carry a ton of media on a large sd card; with only one sd card, your access 
to your nls books, bookshare books, podcasts, music, and files is very 
accessible; on the I touch, my understanding is you have to tap around a 
bunch of screens and use different aps to accomplish the same thing.
You can transfer a lot of data from your pc to the vrs easily. it’s a bit 
time consuming but in the end you have so much on your card like a 16 gb 
card might hold 45 books.
*easily download bookshare books wirelessly without having to use a pc now.

Andy said it well when he said

"It is much easier to transfer content from a PC to a VRS. The VRS has a
folder and file structure, which the I-devices do not. The one big fault
with the I-devices is that you can't simply plug them into a PC and
transfer files the way you can do with a mass storage device. "

Well said Andy! I agree and like this point of the vrs too. I've transferred 
several school files, my talking books, and podcast files all in one sitting 
and its convenient.


So, something to ponder; check out a vrs if possible such as your state 
convention or national convention to assist you in your decision.

Ashley