Price is high compared to what?

[James Aldrich]

Hello!

Well, a Voice Sense has gone up from its introductory price of $1795 to 
$2395.  A Small Talk Ultra is close to $2600.  This is certainly better than 
the $5000 and $6000 and more we have been paying for some of these products. 
When one considers the KNFB Reader has many of the features of the above 
mentioned products complete with Book Share and being able to read 
translated braille files, well, I'd say the KNFB reader is well into the 
price range of many of these products I mentioned!  Yes!  If one has any 
number of these products, it adds up fast!  But then, $500 for a phone isn't 
exactly a low cost phone either!  This brings me to one of my questions! 
Will Talks be able to allow one to download and read book Share files?  If 
not, Mobile Speaks would have the edge for me.  I think when one considers 
all the notetaker capabilities these newer phones have thanks to the 
software in question, I'd say the price isn't all that out of line and it 
could go down.  The price for the original KNFB Reader has dropped but maybe 
this is due to the present cell phone unit.  Okay!  It is high when 
comparing cell phone products only but not so high when considering all 
possible choices!  I think the idea of a portable product is to have 
everything in one package since we also are talking about surfing the web, 
Email and text messaging!  So how high is too high?  I'm afraid we won't 
solve this issue for some time to come but I think competition is slowly 
moving these prices down!  Of course, a braille display will always bring 
the price up but a number of the newer ones work with bluetooth!  Okay!  The 
Icon or Braille Plus is around $1300 to $1400 but it uses Linux and it isn't 
a scanner nor does it have a camera!  I understand they may incorporate a 
phone into this device as well as GPS so who knows what may come of it!

I can't speak for FS since I no longer use any FS products myself.

Just some food for thought!

Jim Aldrich