View CartMaestro
The Maestro by Humanware is the smallest, lightest, most portable solution for notetaking at the lowest price.
Use the Maestro to manage your appointments and contacts list, take text notes with a standard or Braille keyboard, record voice memos, consult and edit documents, read books, manage your e-mails, listen to music, surf the Web, and more all in the palm of your hand.
Maestro Resources
Additional Detail for Maestro
Maestro is the personal informational manager from Humanware that you really can hold easily in one hand. Maestro is a real off the shelf PDA to which Humanware of Canada, formerly Visuaide, has added speech output and an innovative tactile overlay. Even if you can't see the display or use a touchscreen, the Maestro gives you access to a variety of applications (email, web browser, media player, calender, contacts, text notes, vocal notes, DAISY book reader and more). You can enter information by using the tactile overlay or by wirelessly connecting a small portable keyboard to Maestro.
The Maestro has flexibility and state-of-the-art connectivity. Maestro offers you unparalleled portability and the convenience of advanced wireless technology. You can use the infrared and Bluetooth technologies of the PDA to communicate with peripherals without the hassle of cumbersome wires and adapters. For example, you can take notes directly with the integrated tactile keyboard or with an external Braille or QWERTY keyboard (in computer Braille or grade 2).
Using the Wi-Fi capability, you can access web sites at high speed, or get your e-mail when you are on the go. You can easily transfer and synchronize files between your Maestro and PC. Maestro's flexible environment also allows you to add other applications, like the Trekker GPS orientation system.
Maestro gives you a full range of functions in the palm of your hand.
With the Maestro, you can now enjoy the ultra-compact size of a real PDA with essential information access functionality. The Maestro provides a visually impaired user access to the following applications:
- Calender
- Contacts
- Media Player
- Text notes
- Victor Reader (DAISY reader)
- Vocal notes
- Web browser
New Features in Maestro
- Web Browser
- One-hand shortcuts to all essential functions through the tactile keyboard
- Access to each type of Web element through dedicated lists
- Navigation though block of texts
- Full text navigation
- Built-in Wi-Fi with simple wizard to find and connect to networks
- Read pages as on a PC screen
- Edit forms mode
- Favorites synchronization
- Customizable Home Page
- File Manager
- Open files from different applications
- Organize files and folders
- Email Manager
- Read, Send, Forward, Reply, Transfer and Create New Messages
- Synchronize with the PC accounts
- Create and manage POP accounts in the PDA
- Send and receive through ActiveSync or Wi-Fi
- Manage attachments
- Wi-Fi
- Indicator and access through the status bar
- Automatic Wi-Fi power On/Off
- Network reset capability
- Improved connection management
- Media player: Maestro's Media Player is based in The Media Player 10 and contains enhanced features to read MP3 and WMA books.
- Read Media File in Shuffle or Repeat Mod
- Independent Playback Volume
- Mark a place in the book
- Resume
- Sleep mode
- Incremental Fast Forward/Rewind
- 1 minute Forward and Rewind
- Position (minutes elapsed) is announced after Fast forward/Rewind
- Supports Play lists
- Calender
- Different views for more efficiency: week view (list all the appointment and tasks of the week), appointment list (list of all the appointments only), tasks list, free time slots to fix new appointments
- Support of recurring appointments
- Task manager
- Manage and creation tasks and synchronize them with Outlook tasks on your PC
- Tasks management is integrated to the Calendar application. A dedicated view is available.
- Today's Activities Page
- Current date, appointments, tasks and unread e-mail messages
- Contacts
- Possibility to send an E-mail directly from a specified contact
- Possibility to edit a specific field from the Summary table
- Victor Reader Pocket
- Variable speeds of speech rate in audio books
- Improvements to the NISO navigation
- Choice of a second language
- Possibility to select a second language to read the data
- Formatting tool for SD and CF storage cards
- Better support of scanned documents in Text Notes
- No more confirmation is needed when exiting the programs
Maestro is a pocket PC made accessible using text-to-speech technology and a tactile keyboard over the PDA touch screen. It delivers fully accessible applications that behave like the familar PC environment for a short learning curve.
Maestro Characteristics:
- PC Windows-based application suite
- Synchronize to PC MS Office applications
- Open software environment
- Flexible hardware and software configuration
- Rechargeable battery with over 8 Hours of autonomy
- One-year manufacturer's warranty
Maestro with GPS Option, Trekker Pro: A full range of functions in the palm of your hand.
The Maestro system can be enhanced with the Trekker application, which provides a GPS system for the Blind and visually impaired. A revolutionary system that uses GPS and digital maps to help people with blindness or low vision find their way in urban and rural areas. The Trekker is also available as a standalone product. Trekker Additional Details >>
Maestro Wireless Keyboards
Now users can input data quickly and conveniently anytime, anywhered. The Maestro system uses wireless technology to communicate with both portable QWERTY keyboards and portable Braille keyboards, doing away with cumbersome wires and adapters. Below is a list of compatible wireless keyboards:
The latest version of Maestro is now available on the HP iPAQ hx2490b PDA.
The Maestro PDA comes equipped with both integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to enable access to the Internet and email from corporate, home or Wi-Fi hotspots (in select airports, hotels, and other public places) and to allow cable-free connections to other devices with Bluetooth wireless technology.
HP iPAQ hx2490b Key Features
- Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 for Pocket PC, Premium Edition
- Marvell PXA270 processor 520 MHz
- Wi-Fi (802.11b); Bluetooth wireless technology
- Memory: 128 MB SDRAM and 64 MB Flash ROM
- Integrated CompactFlash Type II and Secure Digital Slots
- Removable/rechargeable 1440 mAh battery
- 3.5mm Headphone / Headset Jack
- Built-in microphone and speaker for easy recording on the go
- USB Cradle with battery charging slot
Maestro Upgrades
Existing Maestro users can purchase the hardware/software package to upgrade their current Maestro system to the Maestro with GPS Option (Trekker Pro). For more information, please call Universal Low Vision Aids at 800-369-0347 or 614-224-6465.
