[Electronics-talk] Long post but phone info please requested,

[barb o'connor]

I am on an individual plan with Verizon and it's only running me about $46.00.  I, like you, love my Haven and it does all I want a phone to do.  My sighted husband even likes it because he likes the display.  We just share a phone and it works for us.

I will be interested to see how this comes out so hope you will let us know.

Barb
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Fred Wurtzel 
  To: 'Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances' 
  Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 8:05 PM
  Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Long post but phone info please requested,


  Hi Carol,

  Though I am an iPod fanatic, I am not real crazy about going to an iPhone.

  I, also, have a Haven with Verizon and am very satisfied with it.  Have you
  asked if you can transfer the Haven to the new company?   Alternatively do
  they have the Haven on their list of phones?  Also, you may want to compare
  prices for an individual plan with Verizon on your own, compared  with the
  new plan with the other company.  There may not be much difference since
  Verizon's plans with old-school phones are not real expensive.

  Good luck, and I am interested in your results.  I look forward to seeing
  you in Orlando and finding a brewed adult beverage.

  Warm Regards,

  Fred

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
  Behalf Of Carol J. Feazell
  Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 7:56 PM
  To: Electronics NFB
  Subject: [Electronics-talk] Long post but phone info please requested,

  I will be sending this to several lists (not cross posting) so some may get
  it more than once but I am really trying to get as much information as
  quickly as possible.  

   

  I have been a Verizon customer for years and for the most part have been
  happy with them.  My phone needs are simple.  That's why I am still using
  The Haven because it is the only phone I know of that will read the menues
  in which I am interested those being:  speaking incoming calls/texts,
  reading sent and received texts, the call log, the contact list, and the
  phone status menu. I think that's all I use.  I absolutely unequivocally do
  not want an iPhone.  Please do not take offense to this.  We all have our
  personal preferences and this is mine.  I would prefer pushing buttons to
  get to the things I want but if I have no other way, I would concede to
  voice, though I don't think this is always practical and have some other
  personal feelings about this which I am trying to overcome but it is a very
  difficult personal thing for me also.  I like the phone to talk to me.  I
  don't care if I never say a word to it.  

   

  Back to the Verizon thing, our family is currently on my son's plan as his
  portion is discounted for his work with the city.  The rest of them
  currently have unlimited data which is going to be a thing of the past
  whenever anyone upgrades, and so my son is preparing to make a move to T
  mobile, hence my reason for asking these questions.  Do any of you know
  anything about T mobile's service?  Is there any program/application I can
  get to cause those menues to speak?  I don't even mind going with a screen
  overlay.  I know many of you are not in favor of those but feel that I would
  definitely need one if I were going to use the screen, because I often dial
  phone numbers rather than going to a list to have them called for me.  Call
  it an exercise in memory or whatever but then sometimes we have to dial a
  number that isn't on our contact list and I would really prefer not to speak
  the number.  As I said, I would if I had to.  

   

  So taking all of these things into considerations and without hearing how
  great your iPhones are, could anyone please give me some suggestions or
  direct me to a list that may deal effectively with such matters?  I know I
  had asked Verizon if they could just eliminate the data from one of their
  more upgraded phones and they say they can't.  I find it difficult to
  believe this but would, even though reluctantly, accept such a plan if that
  was what I had to do.  I'm not opposed to such, just don't feel the personal
  need for such.  I don't want my phone to do everything but wipe my backside.
  I just want a phone.  The reading and the music, I'll leave to my Victor
  Stream or to my desktop computer.  If everything is all-in-one, if anything
  goes out, you lose everything and I find that the simpler I can keep
  something, the less likely it is to break.  That's not necessarily true but
  in observing the problems my family has had with avarious phones against my
  simple ones, I can tell you hands down I have had little to no trouble for
  years, but I do suffer the sometimes lack of service and the slow service
  (the latter not really being much of a problem for me), but for the most
  part my few needs are served.  My favorite is the good old flip phone, not
  nearly so apt to accidentally dial something/someone I don't currently want
  to, pocket dial, I believe they call it.  I could tell you some funny
  stories about doctors and such with their cell phones but that is probably
  best left unsaid in this post.  Give me a good old flip phone any time but
  likely those will be hard to come by and particularly to do all the
  particulars I request, though few.

   

  Sorry for the rather long post but I'm really hoping that I can find a
  satisfactory answer.

   

  Respectfully of each opinion I am,

   

  Carol Jean
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