[nfbwatlk] Fw: [MSS] Mobile Speak Smartphone and Mobile Speak Pocket V2.1
Jacob Struiksma
lawnmower84 at hotmail.com
Thu Feb 19 00:25:19 UTC 2009
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From: Caroline Ragot
To: Mobile Speak Pocket Mailing List ; Mobile Speak Smartphone Mailing List
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 3:45 AM
Subject: [MSS] Mobile Speak Smartphone and Mobile Speak 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:
a.. Samsung SGH-i200,
b.. Palm Treo 500,
c.. Palm Treo 500V from Vodafone,
d.. HTC S640 and
e.. HTC S740.
Version 2.1.205 of Mobile Speak Pocket supports eleven new Pocket PCs:
a.. AT&T Samsung Epix,
b.. HP iPAQ 910 (Business Messenger),
c.. Samsung SCH-i760 from Verizon Wireless,
d.. HP iPAQ 600 Business Navigator,
e.. Sprint HTC Touch Pro,
f.. AT&T HTC Fuze,
g.. Verizon xv6850 Touch Pro,
h.. Sprint HTC Touch Diamond,
i.. Palm Treo 800W from Sprint,
j.. Palm Treo Pro, and
k.. Asus P750.
HIGHLIGHTED FEATURES of V2.1
Both Mobile Speak Smartphone and Mobile Speak Pocket V2.1.205 include:
a.. Full support for Windows Mobile 6.1.
a.. Improvements to Code Factory's built-in Braille reader application, also called BRF reader:
a.. 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.
b.. Added a Find function that lets you enter a search string using computer Braille or literary (grade 1 or 2) Braille.
c.. New options for adding bookmarks and jumping to a selected bookmark.
d.. With Mobile Speak Pocket, pressing DoubleTap4 in a BRF file will now close it.
e.. 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.
f.. To learn more about the BRF Reader visit http://www.codefactory.es/en/products.asp?id=241.
a.. 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.
a.. 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
a.. New settings and commands for Mobile Speak Smartphone
a.. 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.
b.. 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.
c.. 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.
d.. 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.
e.. 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.
a.. New settings and commands for Mobile Speak Pocket
a.. New command for switching between existing command layouts: Press Alt+Tab (Default and Mobile Geo layout, if Mobile Geo is installed and running).
b.. 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.
c.. 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_pocketpchtml for Mobile Speak Pocket and
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.
To read more about Mobile Speak Smartphone, visit 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.
To learn more about the other screen readers developed by Code Factory, visit 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.
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)
info at codefactory.es, www.codefactory.es
Code Factory, S.L. - 2009
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