The price-tag depends on the number of cells in the display. A 12-cell
BrailleConnect might be about $1700 or 1800. It certainly isn't $5000
for 12 cells! There are Nokia models like the N73 that also support it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Flor Lynch" <[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Fw: [MSS] NOKIA PAVES THE WAY FOR THE BLIND TO
READ SM (in braille)S
> That Braille Connect is about $5000. A nice little display that will
> work
> with say a KNFB reader phone or another phone, but I think there are a
> few
> phones that support it.
> ----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Flor Lynch" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 9:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Fw: [MSS] NOKIA PAVES THE WAY FOR THE BLIND TO
> READ
> SM (in braille)S
>
>
>> It's possible already, although quite expensive, to bluetooth
>> connect -
>> say - a Braille Connect or a braillino braille display to a cellphone
>> and have it read text messages in braille.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Harry Brown" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 8:25 PM
>> Subject: [VICUG-L] Fw: [MSS] NOKIA PAVES THE WAY FOR THE BLIND TO
>> READ
>> SMS
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>> Just got this in my box 2 minutes ago!!!
>> This is awesome. If any of you have any of these phones and try this
>> application out, let us know how you like it. I wonder if it will
>> also
>> read text documents using a phone's word processor?
>> Harry
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>From: Julio
>> To: Mobile Speak/Magnifier Smartphone Users List
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 2:40 PM
>> Subject: [MSS] NOKIA PAVES THE WAY FOR THE BLIND TO READ SMS
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I don't know about this, but some of you might find it interesting.
>>
>>
>> NOKIA PAVES THE WAY FOR THE BLIND TO READ SMS
>> Mumbai, September 22, 2009
>> DNA
>>
>> Although mobile phones have been a great communicating aid for the
>> blind, there was one aspect in which they were quite useless. Text
>> messaging.
>>
>> But now, ~, known for their cutting-edge software
>> research, have come up with a cell phone version of Braille, the
>> script the visually impaired can understand.
>>
>> Called Nokia Braille Reader, the application -- released on September
>> 17 -- was developed in collaboration with the Finnish Federation of
>> the Visually Impaired and Tampere University.
>>
>> The application is available for the Nokia N97, 5800 XpressMusic, N97
>> mini, 5530, 5230 and X6 models. What it does is to transform an SMS
>> into a set of vibrations corresponding with the symbols of the
>> Braille
>> script. The symbols can be understood by the strength of the
>> vibration.
>>
>> Nokia's latest innovation is the first that lets a blind person read
>> an SMS privately. Previous solutions entailed the handset rendering a
>> message through voice -- not a very personal experience.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Julio Morones
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>>
>> home phone
>> 323-455-3633
>> mobile phone
>> you can Text me as well
>> 323-842-0104
>>
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