Dear all, A couple of updates for you regarding Talks and Zooms for series 60 and series 80 phones. 1. On July 17th, Nuance, formally known as scansoft, plan to release version 3.0 of Talks and Zooms, (screen reading and screen magnification programs respectively). Anyone who purchased either Talks or Zooms from NCBI since may of 2005 is entitled to upgrade free of charge to version 3.0. Those people who purchased talks directly from Vodafone, should contact me to see if you are eligible for the upgrade or not. 2. Similar to version 2.0 and 2.5, Talks will be distributed in two flavours, standard and Premium. NCBI sells the premium version only and Vodafone sell the Standard version. The 'bonus applications', which formally made up the premium version of talks have been withdrawn by Nuance and will no longer be available from July 17th. I will, later this week, post details of the new versions and the difference between the standard and premium versions. 3. From July 17th, NCBI will no longer be able to offer Talks at the specially reduced price of â50.00. We allowed this subsidised price to continue for quite a long period, to facilitate as many users as possible to obtain an accessible mobile device at a price that, while it was not cheap, was at least more affordable. Now that Vodafone provide this software effectively free on their handsets, we cannot continue our issuing of the product at this subsidised price. Note therefore that new versions of Talks 3.0 purchased on or after July 17th will be charged at â199.00. I will email pricing for Zooms magnification software shortly. If anyone has any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Kind Regards, Stuart. ******************************************************************** NOTICE: The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient you should not use, disclose, distribute or copy any of the content of it or of any attachment; you are requested to notify the sender immediately of your receipt of the email and then to delete it and any attachments from your system. NCBI endeavours to ensure that emails and any attachments generated by its staff are free from viruses or other contaminants. However, it cannot accept any responsibility for any such which are transmitted. We therefore recommend you scan all attachments. Please note that the statements and views expressed in this email and any attachments are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of NCBI ********************************************************************