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Braille PDA/Phone
awtbfb writes "ALVA B.V. has released details on their Mobile Phone Organizer 5500. This combination tri-band GSM phone and Windows CE.net PDA does not yet include GPRS, but it is supposedly in the works. Release dates are this summer. It's only been a year since this was requested in askslashdot."
/me wonders if anyone will notice the pun in that above statement... ;)
"looks good to me"
- nick
When you start out having one thing that's bigger (e.g., your Braille&Speak or other such device), and needing a second device to match its functionality (i.e., a phone, and not just any phone, but one that's usable without the display) you can call just about anything "more mobile."
Blind computer users don't often have the luxury of taking advantages of economies of scale. That is, they're used to things being bigger and more expensive, because the R&D costs to produce stuff like this are often as high as other products, and the developers can only expect to sell a few thousand units, tops, compared to the millions of cell phones and PDAs manufactured annually. Yes, it could be smaller, but then it would take longer to make and be more expensive.