[Electronics-talk] New iPhone Model Now Accessible to the Blind

[smokeyjoe]

I ran an AT&T 6650 with Moble Speak.  It worked well.  I also tried
Wayfinder on it.  The software ran just fine, but the flip phone factor got
in my way.  I didn't want to be walking down the street at a good clip
carrying an open flip phone that would cost me a couple three hundred
dollars to replace.  What I hadn't thought of was that when one closes the
phone, it dumps whatever aps are running and goes to an initial screen.  I
had hoped to be able to just set my view in Wayfinder, close the phone,
stick it in my pocket and listen to it on the speaker or with a Jawbone
bluetooth earpiece.  It closed Wayfinderevery time and I couldn't come up
with a mechanism to solve the problem.  Neither could the folks at the AT&T
store.  

I let the phone go back before the trial period was up.  Now I am fighting
with AT&T to get them to acknowledge that we don't actually have a two-year
contract and I am shopping for an open phone.  

I am tempted to try the iPhone just for giggles.  



-----Original Message-----
From: electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of C Keen
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 11:10 AM
To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] New iPhone Model Now Accessible to the Blind

Hi David and All,

So this is very interesting about the I-phone!  Just a few days ago I bout a
Nokea 6650 and am planning to download mobile speak on  to it but now I am
wondering if I should return the 6650 (you have 30 days) and try the
I-phone.  Since it is so new there is probably very little information on
how people are doing with it.
Any thoughts anyone?
Thanks,
Christie


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