Pocket BiteMate Prices Decrease 25-33%, Accessories Added, Application Software Highlighted.PORTOLA VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 25, 1999-- E.W. Bridge LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control announces today 25 to 33% lower prices for Pocket BiteMate(TM), the only fully digital pocket multimedia live recorder/player. Prices are also reduced 20 to 33% for Pocket Memo. These products continue to be the world's only truly pocket-sized digital live audio recorder/players with multimedia sound quality for a broad range of applications ranging from voice to music. -0-
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Model Memory price price
Pocket Memo SPE25A-2J-EW 2MB $ 99.95 $ 79.95
Pocket Memo SPE50A-2J-EW 4MB $149.95 $ 99.95
Pocket BiteMate model 400 77780 4MB $199.95 $149.95
Pocket BiteMate model 800 77781 8MB $299.95 $199.95
For comparative purposes, currently available products from
Olympus and Sony offer only 1 or 2MB of memory in the $149.95 to
$199.95 price range.
New accessories:
77717 thin cordless 3" extension microphone for optimized mobile
dictation for uploading to speech recognition software (same
microphone element as used on leading quality headset booms for speech
recognition) retail $39.95
77718 tiny hideable clip-on external mic, 2.5 ft. cable retail $29.95
77719 cable, 5 ft., one end 3.5mm male connector, one end 2.5mm, for
connecting recorder mic jack to PC, Mac, other recorder, mixer,
instrument etc. retail $14.95
Highlights of new applications and product features: Pocket BiteMate is a great tool for notes and dictation as well as a valuable companion product for PDA's, cell phones and digital cameras, and multimedia authoring software. Its surprisingly small size (1/2" tapered ta·per n. 1. A small or very slender candle. 2. A long wax-coated wick used to light candles or gas lamps. 3. A source of feeble light. 4. a. to 3/8" thin x 4 3/8" x 2") means it truly fits in all pockets and purses. It comes with PC digital transmission software, a cable, and leatherette leath·er·ette n. Imitation leather. [Originally a trademark.] Noun 1. leatherette - fabric made to look like leather imitation leather case in a snazzy snaz·zy adj. snaz·zi·er, snaz·zi·est Slang Fashionable or flashy. [Origin unknown.] snaz 4-color box. For full product information including prior press reviews see www.ewbridge.com/html/bitemate.html. For mobile dictation for speech recognition, Pocket BiteMate works well with Dragon(TM) Naturally Speaking Preferred 3.0 or higher (www.dragonsystems.com). But unlike other recorders it does a lot more than just close-to-the-mouth dictation. Pocket BiteMate's multimedia versatility is evident in recording meeting dialog, lectures, sound effects sound effects Noun, pl sounds artificially produced to make a play, esp. a radio play, more realistic sound effects npl → efectos mpl sonoros , and music. Customers include thousands of musicians. Pocket BiteMate has the versatility to be used with audio crafting software such as Sonic Foundry Sonic Foundry is the former developer of various media software suites, which were purchased by Sony in late 2003. Sonic Foundry's current product line consists of the webcasting, presentation software Mediasite. (TM)'s new Audio Anywhere ($99 retail), the market leader (www.sonicfoundry.com). This combination is the audio version of a digital camera plus Adobe(TM) Photoshop, but at a much smaller cost. It is attractive for multimedia authors of Web pages, presentations, family albums, and players of games with editable audio. As for being a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). companion, Pocket BiteMate is the ideal tool when time, protocol or safety does not allow writing. Unlike PDA's, Pocket BiteMate can easily be carried in one's shirt or pants pocket and be activated by a single button or by voice. It does not sap memory or power from a PDA (likewise from cell phones or digital cameras). Many PDA's do not even have audio, for example Palm Pilot(TM). The ones that do -- Windows CE (Windows Consumer Electronics) Microsoft's version of Windows for handheld devices and embedded systems that use x86, ARM, MIPS and SHx CPUs. Windows CE .NET superseded Windows CE 3.0. (TM) products -- generally have meager mea·ger also mea·gre adj. 1. Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty. 2. Deficient in richness, fertility, or vigor; feeble: the meager soil of an eroded plain. 3. quality and hard-to-use audio. Pocket BiteMate has a display to show time and date of recording, recording capacity and battery power. It offers many folders for organizing recordings. It has a unique and robust Auto-Reminder alarm feature for making sure tasks happen on time. It has a simple digital connection via a cable to your PC's serial port -- no troublesome parallel ports or PCMCIA cards -- and has a microphone input jack. Pocket Memo, with the same size and sound quality as Pocket BiteMate, remains a solid value. Its 7-key membrane keypad A small keyboard or supplementary keyboard keys; for example, the keys on a calculator or the number/cursor cluster on a computer keyboard. See programmable keypad. provides great ease-of-use and reliability. However Pocket Memo does not have a display, nor folders, nor alarms, nor as much capacity. It has minijacks for analog connection with PCs, Macs and other kinds of devices, but not digital connection. Complete features of Pocket Memo can be seen at www.ewbridge.com/html/memo.htm. Pocket BiteMate and Pocket Memo are available through selected store, catalog, and Web resellers, and directly from www.ewbridge.com. E.W. Bridge LLC is a privately-held California limited The California Limited was one of the named passenger trains of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and a true "workhorse" of the railroad. It was assigned train Nos. 3 & 4, and its route ran from Chicago, Illinois to Los Angeles, California. liability company which specializes in mobile computing Using a computing device while in transit. Mobile computing implies wireless transmission, but wireless transmission does not necessarily imply mobile computing. Fixed wireless applications use satellites, radio systems and lasers to transmit between permanent objects such as buildings products. Since 1993 their products have satisfied tens of thousands of customers. |
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