Hello all: At the risk of being another pain in the behind looking for the optimal Braille display for my needs, here are my needs:
1. It must be very portable; 2. It will be used for mostly a great deal of reading, and is needed for work and personal use; 3. It must work reliably with the iPhone; 4. As a rapid Braille reader, one of the tinier displays simply will not do, *yet*, a I cannot imagine that any 40-cell display is truly portable. I have never seen a 24- or 32-cell display, and suspect they might be right for me, but aside from the Brailliant, I have been unable to find reviews on any 24- or 32-cell displays. 5. The Actilino looked good, until I read that it only had 16 cells, *ant* that updating it would require a Windows machine. On a related note, I cannot find any reviews of Basic Braille, though the description looked good. 6. I seriously considered ESYS 24, but it is a little pricier than I want; my limit is $2500, and I prefer between $1500 and $2000. Also, I heard the ESYS devices require a Windows machine for updating. 7. Can anyone who is an extremely fast Braille reader who uses one of the smaller Braille displays please let me know their experiences, good or bad? 8. Does ATC on the Actilino really work, perhaps canceling out the fact that it is quite small? Anything sluggish simply is not going to cut it. 9. I have fairly small hands, so ergonomics requires easy access to panning and the space bar; I also have had rather nasty tendinitis in my dominant hand from using my cane and from too much typing on the iPhone, so I have to take this into account. 10. I have seen the Focus line of displays and do not particularly like them. 11. The Vario Ultra 20 looks pretty good, but I am not sure if it might be too small; it would depend on how easy it is to move from line to line, and I have seen some reviews which say it is more complicated than some of the others, though I realize this is quite subjective. 12 I have seen the lists of supported displays, and cannot find reviews for most of them. Help! Please! Thanks so much. I need more inconspicuous access to my reading; I feel rude having an earphone in my ear when others around me are presenting or talking. Christine -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
