[vicsireland] FW: Freedom Scientific Reduces PAC Mate Price - and Releases FREE 6.5 Update
- From: "Tim Culhane" <tim.culhane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 09:37:24 +0100
For your information.
Tim
Greetings!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Brad Davis
800-444-4443 or 727-803-8000
www.FreedomScientific.com
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The World?s Most Powerful Notetaker Just Got More Affordable
Freedom Scientific Reduces PAC Mate? Price and Releases FREE 6.5 Update
(St. Petersburg, Florida ? September 30, 2010) ? Freedom Scientific today
announced a $900 price reduction on its PAC Mate Omni accessible Pocket PCs
while releasing a FREE firmware update for existing users.
The new prices are:
* PAC Mate Omni Speech Only ? $1,495 reduced from $2,395
* PAC Mate Omni with 20 cells of Braille ? $2,895 reduced from $3,795
* PAC Mate Omni with 40 cells of Braille ? $4,695 reduced from $5,595
Already an industry leader in accessible mobile functionality for the blind,
the PAC Mate Omni is now the clear leader in affordability, offering 40
cells of Braille for about 25 percent less than what competitors charge for
a notetaker with just 32 cells.
?While other manufacturers are raising prices, Freedom Scientific is making
assistive technology more widely available by passing savings in our
manufacturing processes onto our customers,? says Jonathan Mosen, Freedom
Scientific?s Vice President of Blindness Hardware Product Management.
?This is our third major price reduction this year. We reduced our Focus 40
Blue Braille Displays by 38 percent in March, and we lowered the price of
our MAGic® Screen Magnification Software by $100 in June.?
This price reduction coincides with the posting of the 6.5 release for
English language users that expands the PAC Mate Omni?s capabilities with an
array of new features:
RealSpeak? Voices
Since Freedom Scientific introduced the RealSpeak voices in JAWS®, MAGic®,
and OpenBook®, many customers have enjoyed the more natural sound,
particularly for reading lengthy texts. Many have asked for these voices
with the PAC Mate Omni. With Release 6.5, you can easily switch between
Eloquence and RealSpeak synthesized speech with a simple command from
anywhere on the PAC Mate Omni.
RealSpeak is available in many languages, further heightening the PAC Mate
Omni?s appeal among those who work with multiple languages.
Expanded settings dialogs in the PAC Mate Omni 6.5 provide thorough,
independent control over primary and secondary voices and Braille languages.
Unified Instant Messaging with Mundu® IM
The PAC Mate Omni continues to offer free Windows Live? Messenger support
out of the box. With the 6.5 release, we?ve added support for Mundu IM, a
unified instant messaging solution supporting a number of services including
MSN®, Yahoo®, ICQ®, AIM?, Google®, and Jabber®. Chat with your buddies in
real time, no matter what the service. The PAC Mate Omni with Mundu IM gives
the deaf blind access to the many relay services that interface with AOL®,
and instant messaging is available in contracted Braille, letting messages
fly back and forth even faster. Mundu IM is available for purchase
separately.
Built-in FSReader? DAISY Player
Freedom Scientific's FSReader software opens a world of accessible reading
material for the visually impaired. Used with Digital Accessible Information
System (DAISY)-formatted talking books, FSReader delivers a host of powerful
navigation tools for reading:
* Go directly to a specific chapter, heading, or page
* Set an unlimited number of annotated bookmarks
* Speed up or slow down speech whether listening to a recorded
narrator or synthesized speech
Download or purchase on CD DAISY 2.0 and DAISY 3.0 e-books (the ANSI/NISO
standard) like those available from www.Bookshare.org, and browse, read, and
study. Play AudioPlus® books from Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic®
(RFB&D®).
There are numerous other enhancements and performance improvements in the
PAC Mate 6.5. Coupled with the powerful Microsoft Office® support, e-mail
options, and other applications already in the PAC Mate, the 6.5 release
continues to broaden the range of tasks one can accomplish on the go with
this multi-faceted device.
Release 6.5 is available as a free download
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To learn more about accessing the many capabilities of the PAC Mate Omni,
register
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L7r4Yecq7gyZFc=> for our free Webinar on October 5, 2010, or check out the
DAISY books at the PAC
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About Freedom Scientific
Freedom Scientific is the leading worldwide provider of assistive technology
products for those with vision impairments. The Company sells its products
worldwide and has offices in Florida and Switzerland. The Company?s products
have been translated into 24 languages and are available in 55 countries.
Freedom also has a line of software products for those with learning
disabilities.
Freedom Scientific®, PAC Mate Omni?, JAWS®, MAGic®, OpenBook®, and FSReader?
are either trademarks or registered trademarks in the United States and/or
other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein
may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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