[Electronics-talk] Switching to T-Mobile and Android [was "Re:Electronics-talk Digest, Vol 72, Issue 15"]

Wed Apr 18 01:06:09 UTC 2012

Is this only for the NFB, or do other blindness organizations count as well?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jennifer Perdue" <jlperdue3 at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
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Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Switching to T-Mobile and Android [was 
"Re:Electronics-talk Digest, Vol 72, Issue 15"]

> Hi,
>
> If you are a member of the NFB, you get a discount from T Mobile and when 
> you activate your service from them, There is no activation fee and it is 
> saving us about eighty to one hundred dollars for two lines versus AT&T. 
> You also get free android phones per line.
>
> The phones vary from promotion to promotion, but you can try a thirty day 
> trial of code factory to see if it meshes with you and the phone and 
> whether you like it and you get thirty days to try the phone to decide 
> whether it is excessible so if it isn't, you can send it back and use your 
> existing phone.
>
> Jenny
> On Apr 17, 2012, at 3:54 PM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
>
>> I'm surprised switching to T-Mobile from AT&T can save you that much 
>> money. The last time I went shopping for a cell phone provider, I didn't 
>> notice the differences amounted to that much, and I ended up with AT&T. 
>> I'd be curious (maybe off list) to know how you end up saving so much 
>> money.
>>
>> My understanding was that Code Factory's Mobile Accessibility for Android 
>> was optional. You could still do everything you needed to with Talk Back, 
>> Spiel and other 3rd party applications. Mobile Accessibility is nice 
>> since you get a set of accessible applications as part of the bundle, so 
>> you don't have to go looking for accessible 3rd party applications. Maybe 
>> you can save yourself that $100 for Mobile Accessibility. I also know 
>> that AT&T, Sprint and others offer a deal on Mobile Accessibility for 
>> Android. You might want to see if T-Mobile does something similar.
>>
>> Also, I'm not sure I followed the thread below and the subject line 
>> wasn't very helpful, so I apologize if I'm asking something that's 
>> already been covered.
>>
>> On 4/17/2012 2:48 PM, Jennifer Perdue wrote:
>>> Thanks for the information.
>>>
>>> My husbands contract ends already and mine ends in August, so I could 
>>> care less if I just drop it.  I can get a better deal period on both 
>>> lines with T Mobile spending 100 dollars less per months versus AT&T. 
>>> The only thing that will stink is that I'd have to pay for that code 
>>> factory thing, but I'm getting the phones for free and I'm going to be 
>>> the only one using the one phone so I'll only have to pay for it once.
>>>
>>> Jenny
>>> On Apr 17, 2012, at 1:37 PM, PATRICK GORMLEY wrote:
>>>
>>>> first of all is your contract about to expire? If not, you're probably 
>>>> going to pay a $200 or so early termination fee to do that and that 
>>>> doesn't make sense because you're paying two carriers when one is 
>>>> expensive enough.  The answer to the second part of your question is 
>>>> that there are 3 apps you need for an android phone talk back call back 
>>>> and check back all of which are free.  The other app you need is from 
>>>> code factory and is $99 and that gives you access to the contact list 
>>>> battery istatus and call log.
>>>>
>>
>> --
>> Christopher (CJ)
>> chaltain at gmail.com
>>
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