[Blindtlk] mobile phone

[Dave Mehtingerr]

Note that there is an app for both iOS and android which allows one to text for free. You just need an Internet connection. So if you can get by with that you don't even need a phone. Google voice also has a free texting solution. 


On Aug 25, 2013, at 6:59 PM, "justin williams" <justin.williams2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I really want to text more than anything.  I listened to parnell digs text
> during the state convention.  Using that touch screen for texting in my
> opinion  is way to slow.  For other stuff I wouldn't much care; the gestures
> would do fine, but I am a texter; and I don't like people hearing what I
> would tell seery.  I would just get impatient with the texting part; I don't
> care to talk on the phones.  Sery would work just fine if I was at home, but
> out in public, I would be annoyed at that touch texting from what it
> appeared to me.    Selecting stuff with the gestures would be alright.  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Mike
> Freeman
> Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 4:25 PM
> To: 'Blind Talk Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] mobile phone
> 
> Justin:
> 
> In my opinion, the iPhone 5 is still the most accessible smartphone on the
> market although various Android phones are becoming increasingly accessible.
> The website you're looking for is <www.atguys.com>.
> 
> However, I'm going to have to disabuse you of a couple of notions. First,
> although that miniature keyboard is cute and useful, it's not for the
> faint-of-heart or the beginner as it is small and some keys do double-duty.
> IMO you'd be better off to start with using a full-size Apple Bluetooth
> keyboard; you can keep it in its box when not in use and it fits nicely into
> a backpack.
> 
> The second notion is that you can use a keyboard in place of learning the
> iPhone's VoiceOver gestures; you cannot. Some of the phone functions cannot
> be done using only the keyboard. Better in my view to get the NBP books on
> the iPhone and just plunge in, telling yourself that you're going to learn
> those gestures before you eat your next prime rib dinner or buy yourself a
> beer or whatever it takes for you to stay on-task of learning the gestures.
> In other words, there is no easy way out. This goes double for android
> phones. They're often more geeky than iPhones are in connecting devices. Or
> so I am told by people whom I respect.
> 
> I'm not trying to change your mind so much as I'm telling you that your
> expectations are unrealistic. Keyboards are great and have their place but
> they won't substitute for buckling down and learning your phone.
> 
> Mike Freeman
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of justin
> williams
> Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 12:30 PM
> To: 'Blind Talk Mailing List'
> Subject: [Blindtlk] mobile phone
> 
> Good afternoon.  I am about to get another phone in the next couple of
> weeks.  Is the eye phone five the most accessible and app friendly, or are
> their others which I should consider.  Also, I would like an accessible blue
> tooth keyboard to go with the phone for texting in public places.  I've lost
> the web site with the 44 dollar keyboards which were available due to
> several computer changes in the last several months.  Can anyone give me
> that site for the mobile phone keyboards, or recommend another?  Before
> anyone starts asking about use of a blue tooth keyboard for the mobile
> phone, please respect that I have made a personal choice, and that I will
> learn the gestures in time, but I'm not interested in pressuring myself
> while I am in school.
> 
> Thank you for your answers.  
> 
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