[Blindtlk] iPhone drawbacks?

[Chris Nusbaum]

Ah; so it might be a little tricky to use, say, NFB Newsline's 
phone service with the iPhone.  Speaking of Newsline, I heard 
they were working on designing a Newsline app for iDevices; has 
anyone heard anything new on that? Until that app is designed, if 
it hasn't been already, you could probably get around this by 
using Bookshare's Read2Go app to read your newspapers and 
magazines, as Bookshare has partnered with Newsline and provides 
many of the newspapers and magazines available on Newsline on 
their Web site and app.

Chris

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"The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight.  The 
real problem is the misunderstanding and lack of education that 
exists.  If a blind person has the proper training and 
opportunity, blindness can be reduced to a mere physical 
nuisance."
-- Kenneth Jernigan

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com
To: "'Blind Talk Mailing List'" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:38:55 -0800
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] iPhone drawbacks?

The only irksome drawback -- and it's irksome, not lethal -- is 
that it's
hard to navigate telephone systems with menus within menus that 
require
entry of multiple digits after dialing the initial telephone 
number unless
one uses earbuds.  The reason is that when using VoiceOver, a 
proximity
censor determines whether the telephone is up to one's ear or 
lying flat (as
to dial) in order to know whether to activate the speaker or have 
all sound
output come from the slot toward the top of the phone that is the 
earpiece
when talking on the telephone.  This system doesn't always work 
flawlessly
and the phone occasionally switches between earpiece and speaker 
at the
wrong time or doesn't switch fast enough.  However, as one uses 
the phone,
glitches in this system become less of a problem and using 
earbuds solves
the problem completely.  Moreover, occasionally when one answers 
a telephone
call, the system seems to hibernate for about twenty seconds 
where one
cannot hear the caller nor the caller hear one.  However, this 
also seems to
be a function of that proximity censor and holding the phone 
positioned
properly against the ear solves the problem most of the time.

While annoying, this system is a trifle compared to the vast 
accessibility
one gets with the iPhone.

Mike Freeman


-----Original Message-----
From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org 
[mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Judy Jones
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 7:28 PM
To: Blind Talk Mailing List
Subject: [Blindtlk] iPhone drawbacks?

I've heard so much favorable press about the iPhone - does anyone 
on the
list who uses one find any drawbacks to using it, other than the 
learning
curve?

Judy
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