[Electronics-Talk] [EXTERNAL] Re: review of blind-friendly cell-phones wanted

Tue Apr 12 06:56:07 UTC 2016

Thank you, Christopher for these subscribing directions. There's also a 
phone list devoted to feature phones on groups.io. I joined it and was on 
the list a bit over a week and unfortunately there were no messages. I may 
give it another try sometime. If anyone wants the name of the group and you 
wish to subscribe, if you go to
www.groups.io

you can go through the list of groups, you'll find it, otherwise I can look 
it up and post it here. Also I'm quite sure that I read about a list for lg 
phones, if there is such a list I would appreciate the subscribing 
directions. I want to Thank the individual that told about their phone from 
assurence. If you do need extra time on the phone beyond the 250 minutes 
those plans are quite affordable. The government phone I have which I don't 
have active service with now is phone service by way of track phone. It was 
expensive to have additional time, since for only 10 minutes it would cost 
about $49 if I'm remembering correctly. It's a bar phone, a nice phone but 
it didn't have any full read out speech in it, so it's greally great to hear 
about this kyozera phone. I don't know the model of the phone I do have 
which would in some ways would be interesting to find out.

Arlene
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Chaltain via Electronics-Talk" 
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To: "Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances" 
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Cc: "Christopher Chaltain" <chaltain at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] [EXTERNAL] Re: review of blind-friendly 
cell-phones wanted

> That list and others either went by the boards or became iPhone focused. I 
> created a list to try to fill that gap called the Accessible Mobile 
> Devices list where you can talk about accessible smart or feature phones, 
> MP3 players, tablets and so on. The problem is that it's got kind of a low 
> membership, so you may not find someone on that list who can answer your 
> question. If you're interested:
>
> - You can subscribe to the list by sending email to
> blindmobiletech-request at freelists.org with 'subscribe' in the Subject
> field OR by visiting the list page at
> http://www.freelists.org/list/blindmobiletech
>
> On 11/04/16 12:16, Baracco, Andrew W via Electronics-Talk wrote:
>> I know that there used to be a couple of listservs that discussed the 
>> various blind friendly phones. I believe that there was one called 
>> blindphones, but since I am a happy iPhone user, such a list would have 
>> no interest for me.
>>
>> ?Andy
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Electronics-Talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
>> Behalf Of Jim Barbour via Electronics-Talk
>> Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2016 10:43 AM
>> To: James Aldrich via Electronics-Talk
>> Cc: Jim Barbour
>> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Electronics-Talk] review of blind-friendly 
>> cell-phones wanted
>>
>> Wow, lots of exclamation marks.
>>
>> I think what Sandra is asking for is an overview of what phones are out 
>> there for blind folks.
>>
>> I don't know if an AT vendor has put something like this together.
>>
>> I basically know that there's the iPhone, which is the gold standard in 
>> accessible smart phones.
>>
>> I know there's a plethora of Android based cell phones running talkback.
>>
>> There's also a few self voicing phones, like the Haven.
>>
>> This isn't so much an overview as a bit of a painting of the landscape.
>>
>> Take Care,
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 05:07:52AM -0600, James Aldrich via 
>> Electronics-Talk wrote:
>>> Hi Sandra,
>>>
>>> What do you want in that perfect cell phone!  Define it for us.  What 
>>> you might find depends on the cell carrier!  It is probably out there! 
>>> I'll vote for my IPhone since it does everything I want and then some! 
>>> What's near perfect for me may not be so for someone else!  For price 
>>> and small size, check out the Apple SE IPhone.
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>> On Apr 8, 2016, at 5:20 PM, Sandra Streeter via Electronics-Talk 
>>>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Still looking for that perfect cell phone! Wondered if anyone knew of a 
>>>> current review of what’s out there today for us—describing the 
>>>> similarities and differences in the features. I’ve looked online some, 
>>>> but a lot of the things I’ve seen are now outdated. Someone must know 
>>>> more than I do; a Google search is only as good as the one inputting 
>>>> the search request. Thanks!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sandra
>>>> "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is
>>>> essential is invisible to the eye." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery The
>>>> Little Prince
>>>>
>>>>
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