[Electronics-talk] accessible verizon phones

[Patrick Johnson]

    Any idea if Samsung's U686 is accessible?  Wirelesszone.com says the 
phone has voice commands, but am not sure how accessible it is.

Thanks,

Patrick
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Evans" <drevans at bellsouth.net>
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Sent: Friday, December 31, 2010 11:43 AM
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>
> 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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