[Blindtlk] iPhone drawbacks?

Sun Feb 19 23:14:20 UTC 2012

Wellto me, the newsline info in menus you are choosing isn't as private as 
banking info would be.  You could use the pause feature to get yourself into 
Newsline, but in my experience, Newsline remembers my number most of the 
time anyway.

Judy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Nusbaum" <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com>
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Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] iPhone drawbacks?

> Then I stand corrected.  But weren't you saying that it was tricky to use 
> a phone system (like Newsline) which has a bunch of menus within menus 
> within menus and so forth? I guess it would be easier than something like 
> a telephone banking service, as on Newsline, unless you're calling from a 
> totally different phone, the system will remember your phone number and 
> you don't have to reenter your ID number and security code, whereas with a 
> telephone banking service or a service like that, you would need to enter 
> your pin number or password each time you call in.  By the way, does 
> anybody here know if the Newsline app for iOS devices is still in the 
> works? What about the NLS app?
>
> Chris
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com
> To: "'Blind Talk Mailing List'" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org
> Date sent: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:09:04 -0800
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] iPhone drawbacks?
>
> Newsline works just fine using earbuds.
>
> Mike
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Chris Nusbaum
> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 6:34 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] iPhone drawbacks?
>
> 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
>
> Chris Nusbaum
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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
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> 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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