[Blindtlk] Hold Up, Wait A Minute!

[Judy Jones]

Yes, and people are using the various Android tablets quite successfully.

Judy


-----Original Message----- 
From: Ericka Short via blindtlk
Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2015 9:13 AM
To: Cindy Ray ; Blind Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Hold Up, Wait A Minute!

Don't know anything about tablets, but T-Mobile set up the speech on my 
phones i've used.

Ericka
Sent from my iPhone

> On Feb 1, 2015, at 6:13 AM, Cindy Ray via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> 
> wrote:
>
> With the iPad and iPhone you can set up pretty much everything yourself so
> long as you get VoiceOver turned on; then you can use the triple click
> shortcut to turn it on or off. The other tablets you can load JAWS on. The
> one I got is not very easily used without a keyboard so I don't. It works
> more like a PC and can connect to our network; the iPad doesn't connect to
> our network. Of course it does connect to the wifi, but our home network 
> it
> cannot connect to so I can't get stuff off the hard drive. I am not sure 
> how
> to do it and maybe there is a way, but I had to have someone set up my
> Tablet--load JAWS onto it. It is more like using the computer and I like 
> it
> for many reasons, but I can't get my braille device to work with it. The
> braille device works quite nicely with my iPad and iPhone. I think with 
> the
> phones that are not Apple, they have a third party talking program on 
> them,
> but I think that probably they will put that on there for you at the store
> where you get it.
> Cindy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Julie J.
> via blindtlk
> Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2015 5:57 AM
> To: Danielle Antoine; Blind Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Hold Up, Wait A Minute!
>
> I don't know about other tablets, but with the iPad you can buy one that 
> is
> wifi only or one that can connect to a cellular signal.  You cannot change
> or add this later.  You also have to purchase the iPad with the wireless
> provider you intend to use, if you intend to use a wireless plan with it.
> If you purchase an iPad with the ability to connect to a cellular signal,
> you don't have to buy a plan at that time.  You can add it later.
>
> When I purchased my iPad I had the salesperson at the store turn on Voice
> Over for me.  I knew nothing about the product then, just that Voice Over
> came with it.  He had never heard of Voice Over, so I told him to look in
> settings and he figured it out from there.  He also set up my Apple ID and
> whatnot for me.  They do this for all the customers.  I didn't ask, but I
> don't see any reason why you couldn't do this on your own if you wanted 
> to.
>
> HTH
> Julie
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Danielle Antoine via blindtlk
> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2015 12:18 AM
> To: blindtech ; Blind Talk Mailing List
> Subject: [Blindtlk] Hold Up, Wait A Minute!
>
> About those other tablets like the Acer and Microsoft ones all not on 
> Apple,
> when you load JAWS on them do they work the same? I mean where u can use
> them without the keyboard?
>
> When you get one Apple device, what all do you have to do to get it up and
> running? Like with the phone I'd have to buy a talk plan? What about the
> iPad and such? How does that work getting one from Wally World or Sam's
> club?
>
> Danielle
>
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