[Electronics-Talk] COMMENTS/CELL PHONE SHOPPING

[Jim McCarthy]

Sandra,
Just as an FYI, there are deeper male voices available to iPhone users. I am not certain that a user can adjust their pitch, but I have not tried or wished to do that. Also, whether or not one receives notification information and how much of that is received can be adjusted, for the most part,  application by application. The funding issue is considerable, though one can buy workable older iPhone's. I also know that gaining comfort with the touch screen interface is not always intuitive for all of us.
Jim 

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So, in answer to Arlene’s question: I have played with an older-model Gusto, and didn’t like the tedium of texting, and have a gut feeling it won’t do as well at internet as I’d like. My first phone was a Haven, when I wasn’t ready to consider a more complicated phone. After the Gusto, I had an LGNV3, which was, again, quite slow and tedious, though I liked that it was flat and compact and generally accessible. Finally—and just for practice, I’ve never been motivated to use it in real life—I’m now living with an Odin Mobile Nexus 5. Odin, for a very brief time, carried a Clariavox, which would have given me both audio and tactile features and decent Internet, but again, I found out about it AFTER it was discontinued! So, those are the ones I’ve actually played with/used, and I have seen a few Iphones, but don’t like touch screens (though an overlay could make me more motivated, when I have a bunch of loose jingle to spend, which is not true right now), and don’t care for the speech and the sounds when it notifies you you are somewhere—chalk it up to mild Asperger’s! Of course, I don’t know the Iphone well enough to dismiss its speech out-of-hand: I tend to go for low male voices, and bass-boost, and haven’t had enough experience/feedback from others to know whether I could adjust it to my preferences...




Sandra
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
(Les Miserables--the musical)


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