[Electronics-talk] Jorge's panel re verizon phones

Tue Jan 4 21:30:03 UTC 2011

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 ----- Original Message -----
From: Jorge Paez <jorgeapaez at mac.com
To: Discussion of accessible electronics and 
appliances<electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:20:52 -0500
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] accessible verizon phones

David:
Feel free to come and join my weekly tech panel when you feel 
you're ready
and can talk about the phone in greater detail.
We'd be glad to have you.

Thanks,

Jorge

On Jan 4, 2011, at 1:49 PM, David Evans wrote:

 Dear All,

 I do not know if it will do or read a pod cast.  It might, I 
just do not know that as yet.
 I have not been able to get a manual that will tell me how to 
use all of the features as yet and the manual that comes with the 
phone is written for a sighted person and does not go into any 
the menus, modes or prompts that deal with the accessibility 
features.
 I learned most of what I know just by playing with it and taking 
hints from what I heard in the menus.
 If I learn more, I will be glad to share, but right now I am 
looking for a manual or someone with more knowledge that I have.
 It works well, once you get the hang of it.
 I plan at some point to get the G.P.S.  application for it as My 
daughter did the demo of it for me one night, and it seemed to 
work well.
 It can do the Internet and e-mail to, but I have not added that 
yet to my plan.  One step at a time.

 David Evans, NFBF and GD Jack.from
 ----- Original Message ----- From: "dreicer, zachary" 
<z.dreicer at emissives.com
 To: "Discussion of accessible electronics andappliances" 
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 Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 12:45 PM
 Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] accessible verizon phones

 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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