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If you are wondering about what BrailleNote is, its features and what peripherals it contains, you've come to the right place. This page showcases an overview on BrailleNote, such as hardware placement, tech specs and more.
BrailleNote is a personal digital assistant (PDA) for the blind and visually impaired people. It is produced by a company called HumanWare, who also produces other products such as Victor Reader family of talking book players.
BrailleNote's features include writing documents using either braile or text mode, keeping track of one's appointments and contacts, as well as surf the Internet, send and receive email and instant messages and play various media file formats. It also includes a book reader that plays a variety of book formats such as braille and DAISY from various sources, including Audible, Bookshare and so forth, as well as calculate fractions, trig functions and more. More advanced features of BrailleNote include a way of viewing computer screen in braille, a way of keeping appointments and contacts synchronized with a personal computer (PC) and even create a custom database to keep records of all kinds, including recipes and catalog of books.
The overall size of the BrailleNote (except PK) is around 9 inches long by 6 inches wide. On the top is the braile or QWERTY keyboard and a braille display (a line of cells with pins that allows users to read braille). Around the device are sockets and ports, such as USB and headphone socket.
Over the years, HumanWare has produced different models of BrailleNote. These include BrailleNote Classic, PK, mPower and Apex. All units have either braille or QWERTY keyboard (except PK, which only has braille keyboard version) and a braille display, responsive speech, a headphone socket and a slot for memory cards. The larger units - Classic, mPower and Apex - has a group of keys called thumb-keys on the front of the unit to allow easy use of the braille display, equivalent to navigation keys on the PK (a group of six keys on either side of the braille display). Some units have USB ports while others have CompactFlash card slot. Still some units have built-in Bluetooth support while others have the ability to change speech synthesizers.
An overview of each of the product generation is as follows:
If you need more information on BrailleNote, or wish to read more about how BrailleNote is compared to other blindness devices, check out the following helpful links:
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