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Feature Comparison
July 20, 2011

Information contained herein is based on the material that the vendors listed below have published in their websites or marketing literatures.  This information may have been modified after our publication. 

 

 

Impression™

Diamante™

Passport™

Weight

4.1 lbs.

4.5 lbs.

5.7 lbs.

Processors

2 Processors:

·         One Marvel 806 MHz upgradable to dual core 1.1 GHz

·         One Microcontroller

·         One Marvel 806 MHz

NIA

Operating system

·         Windows CE(2)

·         Stenograph

NIA

Screen

·         Fold LCD down and protected

·         Wide VGA (WVGA) LCD with LED backlighting (800X480)

·         Tilt LCD to avoid glare

·         Touch-screen

·         Easy-to-use touch interface with gestures (ala iPad®)

·         Fold LCD over keys (partially exposed and subject to damage)

·         TFT LCD (800x480)

·         Tilt LCD to avoid glare

·         No touch interface

·         Use buttons to navigate the screen

·         LCD facing up without protection

·         Half-VGA (300X240)

·         LCD is locked in a stationary position – possible glare

·         No touch interface

·         Use a wheel and buttons to navigate the screen

Fonts

·         User-selectable font sizes range from 8-24 points

5 sizes to choose from

NIA

USB

·         2 USB ports

ü  USB Host: use for thumb drives or any supported USB dongle

ü  USB Client: use for uploading/ downloading files.

·         Use inexpensive hub to add additional USB ports

·         2 USB ports

ü  one for thumb drive or USB for wireless, and

ü  another for cabled realtime to computer

·         Four USB hosts 

·         1 USB client for realtime feed

Headphone Jack

3.5 mm stereo headphone jack

3.5 mm mono headphone jack

3.5 mm headphone jack

Microphone Jack

3.5 mm stereo microphone jack with high-definition

3.5 mm mono microphone jack

3.5 mm microphone jack

Battery Technology

Two field-replaceable lithium-ion battery packs.  8-16 hours of operation

Lithium-ion with 8 to 10 hours.  Backup battery gives additional 8 hours

8 to 16 hours; backup battery 4 hours

Physical Memory

·         2 SD card slots

·         Internal Flash memory for steno and dictionary backup

·         2 SD cards

·         1 SD card

·         1 PCMCIA(1) card

Dictionaries

Personal and job dictionaries loaded via USB Client port. 
Load any RTF formatted dictionary via USB cable or SD card from any CAT system using our Impression-Sync utility

Personal and job loaded via USB cable

Personal dictionary load via vendor utility

Audio

·         Standard .WAV format.

·         Record and live monitor

·         Standard .WAV format.

·         Record and live monitor

·         NIA

·         Record and live monitor

Tripod

Tilting included

Tilting included

Included

Carrying Case

Included

Included

Included

Key Sensitivity

Self adjusting strokes or user selectable

TrueStroke™ – self adjusting

Self adjusting

Display

·         Text, steno, or both

·         Battery level indicator

·         SD card capacity indicator

·         Audio levels

·         Text, steno, or both

·         Battery level indicator

·         SD card capacity

·         Audio quality

Text and steno

Backup

Internal memory, USB Host port, or additional backup files on the SD cards.

SD card, backup SD and on-board memory.

USB port, an SD slot, a PCMCIA expansion slot and RAM.

Audio

Playback audio and append to existing audio files.  Open older jobs for playback.  Monitor audio while recording

Audio synched with steno notes for playback through headset.  Ability to monitor live audio through headset

Has audio recording

Stacking

Automatic stack detection and correction.

 

Anti-Stacking technology

Drag/Drop detection

Automatic Drag/Drop detection and correction.

 

Shadow tracking detects keys that you drag/drop

Key Adjustment

Thumb wheel

Scroll wheel

Scroll wheel for adjusting key sensitivity

Bluetooth

Internal module.  No external dongle needed.

External Bluetooth dongle is needed.

Bluetooth for wireless realtime

* Diamonte and Passport are trademarks of other companies and ProCAT is not affiliated with these companies.

NIA – No Information available.

(1)      ProCAT was the first company to introduce a writer with PCMCIA technology in 1986.  For all intents and purposes, PCMCIA card slots are non-existence in consumer goods products.

(2)      Using Windows CE will enable us to leverage the on-going investment Microsoft has made in this operating system to bring the latest and greatest features to our clients.