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

[Arlene]

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" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
To: <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
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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