[Electronics-talk] accessible verizon phones

[David Evans]

Dear all,

Verizon has two models  of a Samson phone that is accessible right out of 
the box.
There are the "haven" and the "Gusto".
The haven is the simplest of the two and has no camera and does not access 
the internet. It will let you add and remover contact numbers and speaks all 
of the prompts and menus.  It will also voice text messages and read them to 
you.
The Gusto is able to do every thing the Haven can and more.  It does have a 
camera and can access the internet and there is a G.P.S. application you can 
get for it that speaks the turn by turn directions and lets you put in 
address and do a look around.
both phones come with real speck built in and working when you turn the 
phone on.
There is not a very good manual available to teach you how to use all of the 
features.  I mostly have had to figure it out for myself but the phone does 
offer certain prompts and menus to guide you along.  It would just be nice 
if a good manual, for the accessibilities features was offered to help you 
learn to use them .
I have no vision, but I am able to add, modify and erase contacts from my 
contacts list by myself.
I do find that the "voice driven" menus are a little too sensitive to back 
ground noises and often gets confused as to what I want it to do.  Otherwise 
it is great.

David Evans
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Shaw" <tshaw2007 at hotmail.com>
To: <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 9:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] accessible verizon phones


>
> I believes the Ozone is the one that Verizon will push you towards if you 
> request an accessible  smart phone. atleast when I was with them they only 
> formally supported one smart phones as accessible for visually imnpaired
>
>> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:38:58 -0800
>> From: humbertoa5369 at netzero.net
>> To: electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] accessible verizon phones
>>
>> Well, there are some accessible phones out there. There is this
>> phone called the HTC Ozone, and this phone can run Talks. This
>> phone can also run Bluetooth connectivity. At least that's what I
>> know. there are some other phone also. It depends if you do
>> really need the bluetooth functionallity.
>>
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> >From: "Drew Hunthausen" <dhunthausen at gmail.com
>> >To: "electronics list" <Electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
>> >Date sent: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:41:37 -0800
>> >Subject: [Electronics-talk] accessible verizon phones
>>
>> >Dear list,
>>
>> >I went to the Verizon store today as I really wanted to get the
>> new Samson
>> >Haven since I've read so much about it. I was very disappointed
>> when the
>> >sales rep told me that it does not have blue tooth capability. He
>> showed me
>> >another phone called the Samson Convoy which does have Bluetooth
>> and is
>> >similar to the Haven. I'm wondering if anyone has this phone and
>> if it is as
>> >accessible as the Haven. Thanks so much
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >Drew Hunthausen 714 296-7111
>>
>>
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