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Realtor is Sold on PAC Mate Omni™

"As a blind real estate and mortgage broker, I deal with numerous clients and companies and with a great deal of documentation and paperwork. I would like to take my hat off to the team at Freedom Scientific for developing the new PAC Mate Omni. After just a few days of doing my office work, I can tell you that this upgrade is the best I have ever seen. With my work, there isn’t one feature that the PAC Mate Omni has that I don’t use to the fullest. Congratulations for a job well done. I am very happy to have a tool like this. The PAC Mate Omni provides me with the cutting edge I need to compete with my sighted counterparts.

I use my PAC Mate Omni constantly in every aspect of what I do. I’m very appreciative that Freedom Scientific is so willing to develop new tools like this that enable those of us affected by a vision disability to be able to be employed, to remain active, and to be self-sufficient. Even though I’m blind and 65 years of age, as long as I have access to
the types of tools that Freedom Scientific makes and continually improves
upon, I have no reason to ever think about slowing down.”
- Erodio Diaz - Miami, Florida

PAC Mate is the Cool School Tool

"The Pac Mate has exceeded all of my expectations. It is a wonderful tool for students. I love its compact size, and the fact that it supports third-party programs. It truly is a hand-held computer for the blind. I love browsing the Web, Instant Messaging, e-mailing, listening to music, and reading books with my PAC Mate. Freedom Scientific has done a phenomenal job with this product, and if you want an extremely up-to-date notetaker/PDA, the PAC Mate is for you!”
- Kolby Garrison - Greensboro, North Carolina

Businesswoman Counts on Her PAC Mate

"My PAC Mate is essential to my business. With PAC Mate, I can do inventory in the field and all my reports on one unit. Then, I synchronize with my PC and print my reports and records. Pocket Excel™ is wonderful, and so is PAC Mate."
- Gail Crowe - Ogallala, Nebraska

The Size of the PAC Mate is Appreciated

"The PAC Mate is so small that you can sit almost everywhere with it on your knees: in trains or buses and so on ... It's really smart when it comes to making notes and maintaining a serious calendar. Also stuff like Contacts and quick memos are nice to store on a PAC Mate. What about reading a good e-book, either with speech or in braille? It's a handy little beast to have at hand when traveling around. Also, its small size makes it very attractive, in my opinion. This is nothing less than a revolution!"
- Brian Oleson - Aalborg, Denmark

Scanning Barcodes, Reading Accessible Books, and Playing MP3s

“It’s so powerful to be able to add third-party hardware and software to the PAC Mate. I’ve added a barcode scanner, so I can identify products using the ScanTalker™. I subscribe to Audible.com and carry the Wall Street Journal and several best sellers on a CompactFlash™ card. The PAC Mate has great stereo sound, so I have a collection of my favorite MP3 files loaded as well, especially for listening on those long flights. Finally, my company keeps so much information in Excel format. It’s great to be able to carry it along on the PAC Mate. I can’t believe how much I can do with the PAC Mate, and they’re constantly adding new features all the time.”
- Jim Kutsch - Jacksonville, Florida

PAC Mate Portability

“Is (the PAC Mate) worth it? Absolutely! You get much better portability, especially if you are a braille user. With a laptop, you have to lug around the computer and the braille display. With the PAC Mate, you have one small unit that will perform most tasks that you might use a laptop for: reading, word processing, working with spreadsheets, playing audio files, reading e-mail, and accessing the Web. I have found mine to be invaluable!”
- Donna Goodin - Lansing, Michigan

Wireless Networking on the College Campus

“The PAC Mate is the most powerful accessible PDA on the market. It has better, more up-to-date hardware than any other machine of its kind, like the USB port and the ability to support wireless, Bluetooth, and cellular modem cards. It also supports more mainstream software than anything else. Any (mainstream) Pocket PC (PPC) program for PPC 2002 or above has a good chance of working on the PAC Mate. Even if I find (a program) that doesn't work as I'd like it to on the PAC Mate, I can update the scripts as I do on the PC with JAWS. Further, a Software Development Kit (SDK) is actually available (as opposed to promised). With this, assuming I have the requisite skills, I can write programs for the machine. Keep in mind that (computer) technology is expensive, and it has to have room to grow as my demands on it grow. I'm a student now, and I need to access the wireless network at my campus. Tomorrow, I may need something entirely different such as a GPS unit or to connect to the Internet through my mobile phone. It's important that this same machine continues to work in these situations, as well as those I'm currently in.”
- Aman Singer - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Teacher Supports Creating Audible Student Workbooks on the PAC Mate

“I teach PAC Mate in the state of Utah. One of the most popular things students like is being able to have a workbook that is audible, that teaches you how to become a successful student. You’re able to play (an MP3) workbook, as well as listening through JAWS, and answer questions as the MP3 file is playing ... We’re able to resource a lot of places that will let you download books, whether it be through Bookshare.org or other sites that provide electronic books. That has caught a lot of people’s fancy, being able to have just novels for casual reading in the home. The uses are just almost unlimited.”
- Ray Martin - Salt Lake City, Utah