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

Wed Apr 18 11:43:29 UTC 2012

I have no idea,

I just know I happen to run into the information while searching around the NFB sight.

total accident.

Jenny
On Apr 18, 2012, at 2:03 AM, Jacob Struiksma wrote:

> How come there is discount with team mobile and NFB but not with the other
> mobile cell providers? 
> Thanks
> Jacob Struiksma
> 
> 
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> Is this only for the NFB, or do other blindness organizations count as well?
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jennifer Perdue" <jlperdue3 at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
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> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Switching to T-Mobile and Android [was
> "Re:Electronics-talk Digest, Vol 72, Issue 15"]
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> 
>> 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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