HI ALL,
AFTER 3 months finally my um, pacmate "omni" arrived.
I was verry excited since finally I will be able to have a smaller thing then my laptop to write on at my scool. plus I have the same sized braille display as at my home so I'm not loosing anything, I am just gaining mobility.
all went fine. I counted 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and activated the rocker switch moving it to the left. smoothly, the switch bounced back to the center, my fingers were on the display. I knew what startup sound I would hear. the new omni sound, 2 or 3 ascending tones. I was aware what would come up. I was aware what software it was having. I was aware of its storage capasity. but...
I heard the drum like ascending sound, the startup of the pac mate 400 series. It was verry interesting. the unit started with that sound. no speech but the braille display was working. I got no soft key messages which was weird. further navigation confirmed my guessing. instead of the brand new omni, I got the older qx400 model. I am really worried of a need to hard reset the unit, you see. the pac mate was packed with a polish translation. if I will ever need to reset, I will need to go over through the need of reinstalling everything and re registering the translation since it's a third party software I would have to call altixand give them an ID to remove the trial limits, and to get my unit back in the original state. if it was the omni I wouldn't looze any bit, heh the language would be intact, since there was no full polish translation of windows mobile6. I would, still have the polish synth and a polish keyboard layout so typing polish carachters would be possible, and at the same time I wouldn't get some annyoing messages on windows live like, "użytkownik muwi: hi there!" which ment "user says: hi there!" so If I'd switch to eloquence that wouldn't sound fun.
all in all though I really like the device.