[Electronics-talk] Best cel phone [was "Re: Net flix"]

Fri Dec 5 03:49:53 UTC 2014

This is just my opinion, but I still think the best cell phone for a 
blind person is an iPhone. I have an iPhone and an Nexis 7 Android 
tablet, and although I think the Nexis 7 is a great device, I don't see 
myself leaving the iPhone behind. Some of the more advanced features, 
like cutting and pasting text, are a bit easier on the iPhone. There are 
also some apps that are only available on the iPhone right now, such as 
the KNFB Reader and the BARD Mobile app.

Android Lolly pop is supposed to improve some accessibility issues in 
Android, but I haven't been able to move up to that version of Android 
yet. IOS 8 on the iPhone still has some annoying issues in general and 
with accessibility in particular. Furthermore, manufacturers like 
Samsung have improved the accessibility of their devices above and 
beyond what you get in stock Android. The Samsung Galaxy S5 is probably 
your most accessible Android phone and it has some features comparable 
to the iPhone, such as triple clicking the home button to load and 
unload Talk Back. Between the improvements in Android and on Samsung 
devices and the ongoing bugs in IOS 8, I think the gap between the 
iPhone and the Samsung Galaxy S5 with Android Lolly pop could be quite 
small.

There are also reasons unrelated to accessibility why you might like one 
device over the other. You don't have the fragmentation with Apple 
devices that yu do with Android phones. When Apple updates IOS everyone 
gets it and you don't have to worry about when your manufacture might 
port the new version of Android to your handset. Apple also has fewer 
problems with malware and a better more consistent user experience.

Android gives you more foot print options, larger screens for example. 
It's also more customizable. You can replace your speech synthesizer, 
keyboard, launcher, web browser and so on. You can get low end Android 
phones if you're on a budget. You don't need to use iTunes to transfer 
material to your smart phone.

There are more differences than this but hopefully this gives you an 
idea on the difference between the two phones.

On 12/04/2014 09:30 PM, Shara Winton wrote:
> What do you believe is the best cell phone? I just got an iphone for the
> first time. I am having a very difficult time.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain via Electronics-talk
> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2014 10:22 PM
> To: 'Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances'
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Net flix
>
> No, this is not new. I had this same problem in IOS 7 and maybe even IOS 6.
> It does behave a lot like the focus issue in IOS 8. I've heard this is in
> the Netflix app and that Netflix hasn't been very responsive to improving
> accessibility. Note, I've only heard this second hand.
>
> On 12/04/2014 09:12 PM, Mike Freeman wrote:
>> Did you have the scrolling problem under iOS 7.1.2 or is this yet
>> another manifestation of the scrolling problem manifest in iOS 8.x.x?
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain via Electronics-talk
>> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2014 5:12 PM
>> To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Net flix
>>
>> This isn't my experience at all on the iPhone. I have to scroll the
>> screen around and make sure an object is on the visible screen before
>> I can select it by double tapping. I have to use quite a few work
>> arounds to get passed this limitation, and it makes working with the
>> Netflix app very tedious in my opinion. Sure, I can eventually get it
>> to do most of what I want it to do, but I would never call it very
> accessible.
>>
>> Interestingly enough, you don't have this issue with the Netflix app
>> on Android, and on that platform, I would call the Netflix app very
> accessible.
>>
>> On 12/04/2014 03:40 PM, Poppa Bear via Electronics-talk wrote:
>>> Same here
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>>> On Behalf Of David Hertweck via Electronics-talk
>>> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2014 12:30 PM
>>> To: Tracy Carcione; Discussion of accessible electronics and
>>> appliances
>>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Net flix
>>>
>>> I have found that the Netflix app for the iPhone is very accessible
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>> On Dec 4, 2014, at 9:16 AM, Tracy Carcione via Electronics-talk
>>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I guess it depends by what you mean by "works".  I was able to find
>>>> and
>>> select things to watch or order, but, once the video started, I was
>>> not
>> able
>>> to do anything except close it.  I could not pause, rewind, or
>> fast-forward.
>>> If I did have to close something in the middle, it would restart from
>>> that point, which was something.
>>>> Tracy
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shara Winton via Electronics-talk"
>>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>>> To: <Electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2014 1:05 AM
>>>> Subject: [Electronics-talk] Net flix
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Everyone, Has Netflix worked for you and will I as a JAWS user
>>>>> be
>> able
>>> to
>>>>> use it easily? Thanks for the info
>>>>>
>>>>>
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