It is true that the Apex has a lot of bugs, some rather serious. For example, I was taking a math quiz today when my keyboard stopped working. This has happened before; I had to just sit there for a minute and then, suddenly, I had my keyboard back. Throughout, though, the scroll wheel worked fine. Email is indeed slower, the daisy player is functional but lacks such basic features as saving your place in a file, you cannot use find and replace for fear of a lock-up, linking to web pages still sometimes causes a temporary freeze, the fm radio cannot be recorded, marking files does not work properly, copying a folder containing a daisy book does not work, there are still major problems pasting text into text files, html files cannot be read... and these are just what I have run into on a regular basis (except for keymail, which I refuse to use anymore ever since the keymail database on my mPower got corrupted and I lost all my email four separate times). Oh, and my two inner thumb keys are starting to make odd sounds and not work quite right if pressed in the wrong place. All in all, if you can live with an mPower, I recommend you do so until the bugs get worked out.
As to the mpower being phased out, this does make sense from a business standpoint. It costs money to repair these units and to get parts for them, so if only a few users (relatively speaking) eventually have the mpower, it becomes economically difficult to stock components for so few units. This is just my opinion; I had to take one economics class and I am still amazed I passed it at all. <smile> On 9/30/10, Danielle Montour <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I agree. Just cabbled HW to ask them a question and something > came up. As I figured, tech support is just about clueless about > what's going on with the next version except for improved word > support. And yes, it is also true, that one thing tech support > does know is that in fact, only two more versions of > ks are coming out of the MPOWERS, then, like the cbbasic, they > can't expand anymorwh and will have to stop making software for > it. Tech support agreed that the MPOWER will become obsolete and > will be fazed out. It's not a good piece of news for the MPOWER > users, and HW should drop the price of the apex a little because > more and more people will be forced to buy them in the near > future. > > Danielle > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Joseph Lee <[email protected] > To: David Meador <[email protected]>, > [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected] > Date sent: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:11:13 -0700 > Subject: re: [Braillenote] current trde in values > > Hi, > That's what we (the experts) are finding as well. At this point, > KeySoft 9.0 is essentially using KeySoft 8.0 code on top of a > newer framework which has not been fully explored yet. The > potential is there, but the level of functionality that an end > user would expect has not appeared yet as of this moment. > As of end of September, the short term future of Apex looks grim; > the only hope we have left is at HW's hands. Now the big problem > is this: would HW do something about price reductions that's been > going on somewhere else? > Cheers, > Joseph > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: David Meador <[email protected] > To: Danielle Montour <[email protected]>, > [email protected],[email protected] > Date sent: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:06:52 -0500 > Subject: re: [Braillenote] current trde in values > > A sobering thought here: > > Trade-in values sound fine, but I'm wondering how people really > feel about trading in a flawed unit in order to get another > flawed unit. The emails I've been seeing of late talk almost > exclusively about Apex limitations. It's got a terrible Daisy > Reader I hear today. It's web search capability does not compare > with a PC. Many of the Techi's seem to be using PC's much more > than their Apex units. Joseph's key chats can only be accessed > from a PC, for example. And many say that the Apex is actually > slower than earlier models with regard to re-sets and in other > functions like keymail and keyweb. > > Aside from the portability made possible by the braille keyboard > being small, what do we have to look forward to? I ask with all > respect to Humanware, which I suppose is greatly limited by its > relatively tiny and low-profit market. > > David > > > > Beyond Vision > > Nashville, TN 615-385-0784 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Danielle Montour <[email protected] > To: [email protected], [email protected] > Date sent: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:10:16 -0400 > Subject: re: [Braillenote] current trde in values > > Hi, > Here are the trade in values for the bns. > MPOWER BT 32: $1,500 towards Apex > MPOWER BT 18: $1,000 towards Apex > MPOWER QT 32: 1,500 towards Apex > MPOWER QT: 1,000 18: towards Apex > > Yes 32 cells can be traded in for 18 cell bn. > Just called HW and verified this. > > Hope this helps > > Danielle > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date sent: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:22:12 -0400 > Subject: [Braillenote] current trde in values > > hey all, > does anyone know what the current trad in values are to upgrade > to an apex? I've tried contating HW but haven't gotten an answer > in over a week. > Also, can a 32 cell unit be trading for a 18 cell one? > thanks for any answers > Mike the star trek guy > Bnbt MPower running keysoft 7.5 > > ___ > Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. > If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a > copy to the list as well. > > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [email protected] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > > ___ > Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. > If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a > copy to the list as well. > > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [email protected] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > > ___ > Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. > If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a > copy to the list as well. > > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [email protected] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > > ___ > Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. > If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a > copy to the list as well. > > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [email protected] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > -- Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from GMail website) [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. 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