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

Sun Jan 31 20:15:15 UTC 2016

Pam, the t-199 is a samsung phone.
Arlene
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From: "Pamela Dominguez via Electronics-Talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
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forcellphone shopping...


> 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" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
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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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