[Electronics-Talk] by way of additional clarification forcellphone shopping...

Mon Feb 1 06:06:29 UTC 2016

You're welcome, pam. Do you have mobile speaks on your n95,? Have you gone 
on to the internet wit it? Just curious
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> Okay, thanks.  Pam.
>
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> From: Arlene via Electronics-Talk
> Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2016 3:15 PM
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> forcellphone shopping...
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> Pam, the t-199 is a samsung phone.
> Arlene
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> From: "Pamela Dominguez via Electronics-Talk" 
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> forcellphone shopping...
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>> Hi!  Who makes the t199?  It's possible I may have to look for one.  I 
>> just ordered a battery for my n95 with mobile speak and Kurzweil, but if 
>> something more happens to it, I may have to give that up.  I won't do a 
>> touch screen phone.  Pam.
>>
>> -----Original Message----- 
>> From: Arlene via Electronics-Talk
>> Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2016 6:05 PM
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>> Cc: Arlene
>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] by way of additional clarification 
>> forcellphone shopping...
>>
>> Sandra, the best thing to do is actually to see the phones for yourself, 
>> to
>> see if any of them are right for you. From person to person what one is
>> confortable  with is such an individual thing. This may or may not be 
>> that
>> important concerning the buttons on the 2 phones that I have, but I 
>> thought
>> I would mention my experience, in case either you or anyone else that has
>> neither of these phones is curious. The t-199 is a bar phone, sort of a 
>> thin
>> sturdy phone.I really like the feel of the buttons which are that sort of
>> rubber matterial. It feels good to my fingers when dialing, or typing in 
>> a
>> contact or text message. The way I found out the t-199 talked was when a
>> sighted friend and I each bought a t-199. The next day after we purchased
>> our phones she was going through the menues on the phone and she saw what
>> was called talkback, (not the same talkback in the androids). That 
>> clicked
>> in her head seeing talk back  in the phone, from earlier in the day when
>> another friend was talking about talkback in her s 3 phone. So being 
>> curious
>> to see if the phone had speech in it she turned it on. She told me about 
>> it
>> right away, and we started trying different things out. I was amazed at 
>> that
>> point, everything we tried worked. The first 2 main things we tried was
>> typing in a contact. Also just going through the menues everything 
>> talked.
>> The second thing we did that first night was I wrote a text message to 
>> our
>> other friend. Each time and especially at first, when I began to try
>> something different or going to try something I was almost afraid it
>> wouldn't talk. Just to think this was all by chance, that we found it
>> actually talked was something else. It put me so much in mind using my 
>> nokia
>> 6600 with mobile speaks 9 years ago. I don't know of any other blind
>> individuals that have this phone. It almost makes me wonder if there's 
>> any
>> other phones, meaning especially these feature phones that too, have 
>> speech
>> in them, that maybe none of us know about right now. I'm also totally 
>> blind.
>> The gusto 3's buttons are well indented, you could tell the difference
>> between the buttons.  As I said in another message I would be open to 
>> giving
>> a try with one of those phones that has a keyboard included, or I 
>> probably
>> should say built into it, even if it's a smart phone. I've heard of the
>> overlays for the iphone and so on which are helpful, but if possible I 
>> think
>> I would like a phone that does have a keyboard in it. I'll have to work 
>> with
>> the touch screen a bit more to see if I could make any progress with it. 
>> My
>> trouble was going into icons and folders, which I'm not going into detail
>> about here and not really seeking assistance, since this isn't that kind 
>> of
>> email list. when I would go into an item or folder at times I could go 
>> into
>> it and other times I would loose focus. What I think will help me work 
>> with
>> guetting use to a touch screen, is if I could find someone to get 
>> together
>> with in person. Anyway, I just wanted to give you one little aspect of 
>> the
>> feel of the phones.
>> Sandra, it would be interesting to hear about the phones you come across
>> that you get to see in the store especially the phones you like.
>> Arlene
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Sandra Streeter via Electronics-Talk" 
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>> Cc: "Sandra Streeter" <sandrastreeter381 at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2016 4:00 PM
>> Subject: [Electronics-Talk] by way of additional clarification for 
>> cellphone
>> shopping...
>>
>>
>>>I mislead some people—I have ZERO sight! What I mean by being an 
>>>extremely visual learner is that, as I said, auditory is a very weak 
>>>learning style for me; if, however, I read something in Braille 
>>>(apparently, the visual cortex of us Braille readers who use tactile for 
>>>so much has been delegated for those tasks instead of the usual visual 
>>>tasks), I get the material in at most half the time it takes to memorize 
>>>it through auditory means, and often, it takes even less time to take 
>>>stuff in. So, I really need the combination of tactile and audio features 
>>>in a phone. I will keep everyone's responses for a while so I can do some 
>>>internet comparisons of reviews of the phones that have been/will be 
>>>suggested. Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>> Sandra
>>> “To love another person is to see the face of God.”
>>> (Les Miserables--the musical)
>>>
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