[Electronics-talk] sprint phone accessility

aleeha dudley blindcowgirl1993 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 19 11:54:13 UTC 2010 

Thanks so much everyone for all the information.  Once I get off 
my parents' contract, I will definitely be switching to Verizon.

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Steve Jacobson" <steve.jacobson at visi.com
>To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and 
appliances"<electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:49:11 -0500
>Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] sprint phone accessility

>To try to answer the original question, there are a number of 
accessible phones that are available through Sprint.  A number of 
the Windows Mobile phones are
>accessible with the addition of a Windows Mobile screen reader.  
A number of these are made by HTC, but there are several other 
brands as well.  These phones
>are more expensive and the screen reader is adds more to the 
cost.  Versions of these same phones are also available through 
Verizon although the models are
>sometimes different.

>There are, or at least were a couple of LG phones available 
through Sprint that have built in speech for most but not all 
functions.  The LG Rumor 2 is one such
>phone, and I believe the LG Lotus also has this capability.  
There are also corresponding LG phones available through Verizon 
which are, as far as I know,
>approximately the same with respect to accessibility.  Samsung 
has made phones with some speech capability in the past as well.  
These phones seem to come and
>go, so one has to check.  Phones such as the Rumor 2 don't have a 
big accessibility sign on them so it is not always apparent to a 
sales person what you might be
>talking about.  Also, most phones now allow voice input, and 
often they think that's what you need.  The LG Rumor 2, for 
example, and some other LG phones,
>have something called "Voice Guide" which is different than 
"Voice Command."  Voice Guide causes some menus to speak and 
gives you access to call history,
>battery and signal levels and such.

>I am using an HTC Snap S511 with Mobile Speak through Sprint and 
it works pretty well.  I also used the LG Fusik through Sprint 
some time back and it provided
>some accessibility but no access to text messages.  The LG Rumor 
2 is said to allow the reading of text messages although I have 
not had much experience with
>that aspect, but it definitely does tell you which characters are 
being entered when you type data into a text field.  Like any of 
these "pretty accessible" phones, it is
>frustrating when you wander into an area of the phone that is not 
accessible, sometimes by accident.  These phones don't allow 
access to e-mail or web browsing.
>The Windows Mobile phones allow very complete access including 
web browsing and e-mail and of course text messages.  Like any of 
the fancier phones, though,
>they have to be reset sometimes.  Adding a screen reader probably 
makes this a bigger problem, but my kids both have phones without 
screen readers and have to
>reset them so some of this is simply due to the complexity of 
some of these newer phones and companies not debugging as well as 
they might.  Some of the more
>complex phones require that you have a data plan, too, and this 
can be expensive.  While requiring a data plan might be a way for 
the phone companies to get you
>to buy more of their services, these phones are sometimes updated 
via the wev and lose a lot of their usefulness without a plan.

>Best regards,

>Steve Jacobson

>On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:00:47 -0700, davidw wrote:

>>Tom,

>>I agree with you on the topic of Sprint.  As soon as my contract 
is up I'm
>>switching.
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Tom Evans" <tevans2003 at sbcglobal.net
>>To: "'Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances'"
>><electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
>>Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 11:54 AM
>>Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] sprint phone accessility


>>>I had sprint for years and think it is garbage.  I had an 
accessible phone
>>> that was poor.  I used it as a junk back up phone and finally 
turned it
>>> off
>>> the other day.  here is their web that they don't even know 
about
>>> http://www2.sprint.com/mr/gp_dtl.do?article=342
>>> I have heard these phones to not be too good.  There is a Nextel 
one that
>>> is
>>> ok, but Nextel infrastructure is a dying breed.  When my sprint 
barely
>>> worked I got Verizon and been happy for years.  I travel a lot 
and find it
>>> to work well.  The new talk is that Verizon is in negotiation 
with apple
>>> for
>>> the iphone.  If that comes through I will get that.  Verizon has 
some
>>> basic
>>> off the shelf phones that work and I have been happy for years.

>>> Final word for me personally, sprint is garbage and very happy 
with
>>> Verizon
>>> as evidenced by accessible phones, connectivity, tech support, 
billing,
>>> ease
>>> of use etc.

>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
>>> [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of aleeha 
dudley
>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 7:53 AM
>>> To: electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
>>> Subject: [Electronics-talk] sprint phone accessility

>>> Hi,
>>> What is the most accessible sprint phone.  I would like a phone
>>> that will text, read menus, and also read text messages.

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