[Electronics-talk] accessible verizon phones

[dreicer, zachary]

david! can you do a podcast on this phone the gusto? I'm not 
going to switch from my haven at this time, but maybe in a couple 
years ...  so can you tell us nfb people what it will do having 
the phone speaking everything in a podcast

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "David Evans" <drevans at bellsouth.net
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and 
appliances"<electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:43:44 -0500
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] accessible verizon phones


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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