# braille note or braillesenes

Category: Geeks r Us

## Post 1 by rongirl17 (Zone BBS Addict) on Monday, 18-Dec-2006 17:59:40

Hello all. does any one have a braillesense? can you tell me what I should get a note or sense. thanks tell me what you like about the notetalker you have.

## Post 2 by WillieTheWoof (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Monday, 18-Dec-2006 20:26:04

This could really be a very informative topic since the Braille sence is not as widely used yet. For me the bigg seller would be the replaceable battery. Most of the time a battery is or can be a big part of the problem. Imagine being able to call and ask for a new one and receiving it 2 days later and not having to send the whole unit back. I too look forward to hearing from Braille sense users.

## Post 3 by rat (star trek rules!) on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2006 11:08:20

i personally vote for the braillenote. i'm using mine at the moment, and also it has a lot more USB ports. plus replaceable batteries aren't always good you know.

## Post 4 by KC8PNL (The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.) on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2006 12:08:27

Well, since I've used and tought people on how to use both of these notetakers, I figure I can comment on this. For most people, the BrailleNote is a better choice. It has more features such as an optional GPS, twice the amount of internal memory, in my opinion a better speech synthesizer, and the option to either have a braille keyboard or a standard qwerty keyboard. In fareness to HIMS, the braille sense is a relatively new notetaker on the market, so some of the features may just not yet be available. The product manager for this in the US says that HIMS is in discussion with a few GPS manufacturers, and that they will be putting gps in to the product within the next year. That's not good enough for me though, witch is one of the reasons I chose the braille note.

## Post 5 by rongirl17 (Zone BBS Addict) on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2006 12:33:42

what is a rtf tex. I need to because come may I need to tell mcb person what I need for college. thanks.

## Post 6 by rat (star trek rules!) on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2006 14:48:54

RTF means rich text format

## Post 7 by KC8PNL (The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.) on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2006 21:09:23

The best way for us to help u is if u tell us what you need out of the notetaker. You can PM me if you want.

## Post 8 by data (Cheese flows through my veins!) on Wednesday, 20-Dec-2006 8:12:06

kc8pnl, I have used both products as well. That was a nice overall comparison. I would also add that the documentation and help files for the braille note is significantly better, so for a new user, this may be a deciding factor.

## Post 9 by audioadict (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Saturday, 18-Aug-2007 23:55:12

I've seen the braille note and braille sense. I know more about the braille note and I'd love to have one. I hear the braille sense is more windows based, meaning you don't have all menues. You have some dialog boxes, and other windows controls. I may be wrong, but that's my opinion.

## Post 10 by motifated (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Sunday, 19-Aug-2007 16:55:21

Well, I know that G.W. Macro is first-rate from what I've seen in their tech support as a compnay. As was previous stated, I think the help system in the BN is second to none in a notetaker. I'll be interested in the dirrections this topic goes.
Lou

## Post 11 by WillieTheWoof (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Monday, 20-Aug-2007 7:50:10

Yea!!!!! gotta agree with that. Although I have prefered pacmate due to it's pocket PC interface the BN has help that is second to none. For a new user who is completely unfamiliar with note takers the BN would be an excellent choice. However, ehem,hem: With all of these adaptive devices there are always compatibillity problems. It seems like the list of supported devices changes randomly and that is quite a chalange. The pacmate omni bosts a wide variety of device drivers already included and will be running windows mobile 6 where the Braille note to my knowledge(someone please tell me I am wrong) is still running windows mobile 2003. This is going to be a problem because the support for devices is slowly going away. I am sincerely hopeing that a version of keysoft will come out including an update to wm6. For now I will stick with a current PDA running mobile speak pocket. MSP suports braille displays and bluetooth and wifi are already built in to PDA's.

## Post 12 by KC8PNL (The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.) on Saturday, 25-Aug-2007 11:41:44

Keysoft is still running under windoes ce version 4.2, so they should upgrade soon! Humanware has put up some drivers on their website, but the older the OS gets, the more drivers they will need to make, and the more complicated things will get. And, typically, the more complex things get, the less stable they become. Yes, the BN has the best help system of any AT product I've ever used!

## Post 13 by audioadict (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Friday, 12-Oct-2007 23:48:52

Well, I've heard on this topic about the braille note running windows mobile 2003, and I also heard about it running windows CE 4.2 The question I have is, what's the difference between windows CE and windows mobile? The pacmate runs windows mobile, but I just don't know why it's less stable then the braille note. They're running the same OS.

## Post 14 by amir.hassan (Account disabled) on Saturday, 13-Oct-2007 0:42:50

No, not same OS. An, lapsop is bests for my because it driver works with mirosof.

## Post 15 by Polka dots and Moonbeams (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Tuesday, 16-Oct-2007 11:00:27

To throw another option in the mix.. How about the voicesense?

## Post 16 by audioadict (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Wednesday, 14-Nov-2007 13:01:59

Well, the only difference between the braille sense and the voice sense is that one has a braille display, and the other doesn't. They both use the same OS, so they're about the same. From what I heard, the braille and voice sense use windows ce

## Post 17 by WillieTheWoof (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Wednesday, 14-Nov-2007 14:57:31

Since this is the Geeks forum I post a geeky question. Does anyone know what version of windows the braille sense is running: wm2003, wm5 or wm6?
Humanware is still from what I gather at windows 2003. Thanks.

## Post 18 by motifated (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Wednesday, 14-Nov-2007 22:21:51

I just heard something interesting about the braillesense a couple of days ago. I understand its support of MS Word is much better than the Braillenote family of products. Now as for 2007, I don't know.
Lou