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

[Baracco, Andrew W]

The Haven will only work on CDMA carriers, the major ones being Verizon and Sprint. It will not work on GSM carriers like AT&T or T Mobile.

Andy


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From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Roland Hudson
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 7:36 PM
To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Long post but phone info please requested,

Hi Carol Jean,

I have been a T Mobile customer for a number of years, and am very happy with them. For many years I've used a Nokia 6600 phone; I keep waiting for it to stop working so I can get an I phone. ☺ I use Mobile Speak as my screen reader. I think your Haven would work on T Mobile. I hope this has been of help.

Best wishes,

Rollie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carol J. Feazell" <cfeazell at comcast.net>
To: "Electronics NFB" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 4:56 PM
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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Sorry for the rather long post but I'm really hoping that I can find a 
> satisfactory answer.
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> Respectfully of each opinion I am,
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>
>
> Carol Jean
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