[Electronics-Talk] Feature phones and smart phones [was "Re: LGflip phone [was "Re: Android Cellphones: Are They Worth It"]"] [Feature Phone]

[Pamela Dominguez]

The Nokia n95 is an old phone, but I bought it a few years ago from a guy 
who sells tech stuff who put Kurzweil and mobile speak in it.  The Kurzweil 
is really the only reason why I bought it.  I didn't want to have an iPhone, 
and I had originally bought this phone just before we found out about the 
Kurzweil in the iPhone.  Besides using the reader, I can text if I want to, 
I can check time and date and battery level and signal strength.  I can also 
change settings, such as changing the ringer.  I could go on the net, but I 
don't do that.  I use my computer for that.  Pam.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ashley Bramlett via Electronics-Talk
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2016 10:09 PM
To: Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances
Cc: Ashley Bramlett
Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] Feature phones and smart phones [was "Re: 
LGflip phone [was "Re: Android Cellphones: Are They Worth It"]"] [Feature 
Phone]

Pam,
So what does that phone do? that's a new model to me.
All phones text message now a days, but not all phones have speech so you
can send and receive texts as a vision impaired user.
If that phone meets your needs, that is what matters.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Pamela Dominguez via Electronics-Talk
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2016 6:26 PM
To: Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances
Cc: Pamela Dominguez
Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] Feature phones and smart phones [was "Re:
LGflip phone [was "Re: Android Cellphones: Are They Worth It"]"] [Feature
Phone]

How about phones like the n95?  Pam.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Christopher Chaltain via Electronics-Talk
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2016 3:36 PM
To: Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances
Cc: Christopher Chaltain
Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] Feature phones and smart phones [was "Re:
LGflip phone [was "Re: Android Cellphones: Are They Worth It"]"] [Feature
Phone]

I'll just echo this and go one step further. I think a smart hone gives
you the ability to install 3rd party apps whereas this ability is
limited if not impossible on a feature phone. I would consider Nokia
phones running Windows Phone to be smart phones. Ditto for the Nokia
phones that used to run Symbian. Nokia did also sell feature phones, but
I can't recall what the name of that platform was. I think they were
called Series 40 phones, as opposed to the smart phones running Symbian,
which I think were called Series 60 phones.

On 27/03/16 12:56, Jim Barbour via Electronics-Talk wrote:
> A feature phone as a phone that does not have all the capabilities of a 
> smart phone. Usually a feature phone can make calls, read mail, send 
> texts, and maybe one or two other things. I would classify the Nokia 
> phones as feature phones, and I would classify the iPhone is a smart 
> phone. The boundaries are somewhat mushy, so others may classify them 
> slightly differently.
>
> Jim
>
> Written While on the Move
>
>> On Mar 27, 2016, at 9:20 AM, cheez via Electronics-Talk 
>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Forgive my ignorance, for I am not familiar with this item, but, what in 
>> the world is a feature phone?
>>
>> Vince
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marsha via Electronics-Talk" 
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>> Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2016 8:38 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] Feature phones and smart phones [was "Re: 
>> LGflip phone [was "Re: Android Cellphones: Are They Worth It"]"]
>>
>>
>>> HI
>>> I don't have a clue what security issues you are talking about in regard 
>>> to feature phones.  Perhaps mine isn't a feature phone.  There is 
>>> nothing private on my phone that anyone can't get out of a phone book.
>>>
>>> Marsha
>>>
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