Unable to pair braillenote pk with iPhone

It is no longer compatible as far as I think. I have the mPower and it does the same, Apple says I tis compatible, but as it can not be detected then it is clearly incompatible.

Hi Emily. The BrailleNote MPower and PK were the last Bluetooth capable braille devices made that have Bluetooth older than what is compatible with iOS. The PK was a nice device though!

The speaker on those old things was great, better than the Apex. These were great machines for playing z-machine story files on in the "Games" application. And, of course, you can still use it as a text editor with that KeySoft flare.

Yes I know it's an old thread, just investigating the situation for my brother. Sad news that it's not Bluetooth-compatible with an iPhone.

The MPower and the PK - those were the days! I still think that was the golden age of braille translation. My own view is that 20 cells rather than 18 is the optimal length for something portable but you've still got a nice, handy pocket wordprocessor in the PK and you can always export files to a USB stick easily enough. Also, and this is not to be undervalued, the PK is so old hat that you're not going to get very far trying to get it online. That can be extremely useful if you work for a company where they want you to keep data strictly offline. I use my Brailliant for that purpose - whereas my colleagues have to take handwritten notes, I take BRF notes and keep them offline.

text adventures are a great shout. I seem to remember it being possible even to write one susing, say, the adventure Games Toolkit and then play it on the MPower. I can't remember how that was achieved.

Don't give up on your PK. It was a nice machine back in the day. If only modern notetakers didn't spend all their time trying to be laptops manufacturers might better understand that relatively low tech is sometimes very welcome. the modern day Brailliant is the nearest I get to that.

Hello Emily,
Like Bingo, Scott, and others have said, you still have a great note taker. I have the Brailliant 20 which I really like. I use it for: a check register, addresses, reminders, resources, a grocery list, etc. And I like it's portability. Oh ya, I do not connect to my phone. Maybe if I give it a try, I might like it. But for now, I just use voiceover on my phone.

I still remember all the whining and grousing I and others used to do about the BrailleNote's limitations. And while I'm scarcely about to retract the individual (and largely valid) points of criticism, particularly the horror show that was Windows CE, it's clear that the one big and most recognisable feature it had—KeySoft—remains its most compelling and endearing. It's the simple things! I'm not looking forward to the day when my own beloved Apex packs in, even though I don't use it day-to-day. I have battery spares, but there are reports of filesystem corruption and board failures sweeping across the BrailleNote list, and it can't be long before I'm next. There will be tears!

Nobody has rivalled KeyBook/KeyWord yet. I use a Focus 40 for freeform BRF editing, and it's great, but damned if the command structure isn't hideous. The BT Braille may yet prove to be the next nirvana, but no thanks to import duties and an unserious approach to the UK market as things stand now.

Anyway, yeah. PK, MPower, Apex—all good in their own ways, though the Apex bore the brunt of the later and buggier KeySoft releases. Treasure 'em if you've got 'em, that's what I say!

But I have an Apex. Bloody annoying! Just the little things like the two-cell indent at the beginning of a paragraph - why were we not more appreciative of that? I wasn't a fan of Keymail - there are 26,000 emails on the server. receiving 1. Receiving 2. Receiving 3...and on it went. Nor did I use Keyweb over much; but Keybook, Keycalc, Keybase and the very powerful Keyword were fantastic. The apex could also connect up to the iPhone. I do wish I had the wretched charger.

@Bingo Little, perhaps visit your local electrician's shop. Of all the things, the AC charger will be easiest to replace, because it's just a generic part, if you have the specifications for the input (and I'm sorry, but I don't know what those are, but you might be able to get some eyeballs on your unit to find out). Try to get it working again!

As to KeyMail, yes, that was always a good laugh. Nowadays many services don't even offer POP3, but even when they did, the MIME support was so dreadful that it would just frequently fail to retrieve messages. 1, 2, 3, Error downloading attachment, 4, 5. Very funny. If you used it only for sending, it wasn't too bad, just never let it retrieve mail.

And KeyChat. Utterly useless unless you used Google Talk, which nobody did! I used to run an illicit taxi service for people wanting access to MSN and Facebook Messengers (and others) from their units, because I'd set up an XMPP server with all the transports, but they had to give me all their passwords, which got pretty old, pretty quick. Ah, now those were the days!

Anyway, yes. Great machines.