[Electronics-Talk] [EXTERNAL] {Spam?} Re: cell phone shopping
Baracco, Andrew W
Andrew.Baracco at va.gov
Fri Jan 29 16:07:07 UTC 2016
If you decide to go the iPhone route, there is a company called Speed dots that makes screen protectors that have tactile markings for orientation purposes. They have a few different models with different patterns of markings depending on how much orientation you need. This may be a good way for someone who is intimidated by the touch screen to start. Many who start out by using these eventually get to a point where they're no longer needed. Kind of like training wheels on a bike.
Andy
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Sandra, Between the t199 and the gusto 3 you really can't do too much with going on the internet. In some ways I found it a little easier with the gusto to go on the internet, but neither phone would be quite like going on the internet with a computer or smart phone. I know there's some phones that have both the touch screen and a keyboard included in the phone. That is something I think I might like to try, because there could be times when I'm out that I might want to look something up on the internet. I don't remember the model of phone that I got to see in one of the stores that had the touch screen and keyboard. Now that I think about it I know there was a display on the phone as usual but I'm not sure if it was a touch screen. I think it was an a t and t phone. It didn't have speech built into it as the t-199 and the gusto does, but if these model phones are considered smart phones they may be some type of android phone, so there would be speech in the phone. I have the modo g as a prepaid, which is an android, but as I said I haven't been able to get the knack of it. While I'm happy with the amount of things I could do with the 2 phones I have, I was really hoping I could get use to the touch screen because it would be great to have some of those special apps that come along with the smart phones, such as scanning and going on the inter net. That's why I'm thinking I might like to try one of these phones that have the keyboard included in the phone. In some ways you may not be that impressed with the t199 since it's so very simular to what the gusto can do, and also going by what you're looking for in a phone. All you can do is try it out.
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> Just to give everyone a little better idea of what I’m looking for:
> although you could do some things with Gusto, what I didn’t like about
> that was how, when you texted, it involved more steps than using a
> keyboard. I didn’t like the tedium! I will investigate the other phone
> that was mentioned, though, and see if it gets closer to what I want. I do
> want to be able to go online efficiently, so that may preclude my getting
> a simple phone, unless, as I’m hoping, there is a smartphone for a picky
> person like me. RNIB had one I would have liked, but, of course, it wouldn’t
> have worked in the States; OM had one similar to that, but it was
> discontinued before I knew about it. It had a simpler interface and some
> tactile features, and was, indeed, a smartphone, so it would have been
> perfect for me...
>
>
>
> Sandra
> “To love another person is to see the face of God.”
> (Les Miserables--the musical)
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