[Electronics-Talk] iPhone SE / was Re: Introduction

Donald Moore don.moore48 at icloud.com
Fri Dec 1 10:33:08 UTC 2017 

Supposedly, in July the SE2 will be coming out.  More power to work better with the current operating system, but still smaller and cheaper.  Although I currently have a 7 plus, it almost looks pretty inviting if all the scuttlebutt is true.




-----Original Message-----
From: Electronics-Talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of River Linda via Electronics-Talk
Sent: Friday, December 1, 2017 2:38 AM
To: Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances
Cc: River Linda
Subject: [Electronics-Talk] iPhone SE / was Re: Introduction

Hi Jenny,
The iPhone SE is the 4 inch version, same size as the iPhone 5 and 5S. The screen size got bigger with the iPhone 6. The SE is a lot cheaper too, about half the price of the iPhone 8. I miss having a smaller phone and am seriously thinking about getting the iPhone SE.

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 12:34 PM Jenny Keller via Electronics-Talk < electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> What is an iPhone SE
>
> Jenny
>
> Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snow.
> Lies the seed that with the sun’s love, In the spring becomes the 
> rose.
>
> “The rose” Bette Midler
>
> > On Nov 30, 2017, at 10:34 AM, Roanna Bacchus via Electronics-Talk <
> electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >
> > My family and I are you smart phone. I use voice over on my iPhone 
> > to do
> everything that you just described in your message and I love it. Hope 
> to hear from you soon.
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> >> On Nov 30, 2017, at 11:16 AM, Arlene via Electronics-Talk <
> electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi, Roanna, welcome to this group. You'll really learn a whole lot
> here, and sometimes it could be a real mixture of things, from what 
> items are the most accessible to who takes to certain items  and  
> others would rather the other type of items, very much in the same 
> sort of category and both accessible in their own way. Just like in 
> everything, everyone has their own ways of doing things, and they have a set items they make use of.
> Listening to all of it is quite interesting. One set of items would 
> be, for example smart phones and the feature phones, the flip phones 
> and there are some bar type phones with buttons both accessible in 
> their own ways. I think a majority of visually impaired individuals 
> have smart phones, just as everyone else does, and included in these 
> phones is a screen reader. So one can navigate on the screen as anyone 
> else can. In some cases it makes other items in the house more 
> accessible, such as having things like an instapot, also some 
> crockpots, working different things in one's house whether it be your 
> thermostat or lights and other things. Doing email, going on the 
> internet, listening to books, music and the radio on the phone, apps 
> to be able to connect with someone to find out a description of an 
> item that you need a bit more information about, other useful apps for 
> scanning text, bar codes, gps, color identifier, and so much more. 
> Then there's those feature phones that are flip phones or bar type 
> phones, the phones that have the buttons, that have the text to speech 
> included in the phone, which isn't exactly like the screen reading 
> software in a smart phone, but makes it possible to navigate the phone with the buttons and many of these phones do talk everything in the menus in the phone.
> Personally for me, what I use is some of the different feature phones 
> that I'm very comfortable with. As I'm able too I'll get more of these 
> type of phones so I could see what the phones are capable of and see 
> what types of things that I or anyone else can do with these phones. 
> Of course, as in everything certain phones are better than others or 
> rightfully so a bit better because the aspects of the phone may be a 
> bit more advanced. Such as seeing a difference in how a number of 
> these phones work and what they had in cluded 3 years ago, verses now 
> presently. I think I'm going to do some audio recordings about these 
> phones. While there's so much more you can do with a smart phone, with 
> these feature phones, Besides navigating with the phone for the 
> settings, to type in new contacts, writing a text message, I could use 
> the calculator, I could use the calendar on some of them, I go on the 
> internet with them, some of the phones are a bit better than other 
> phones. 2 of the phones that are better for going on the internet that 
> are quite new phones, probably as new as from last year are the sim 
> mobile for at&t and the alcatel for T-Mobile. Not everyone is as crazy 
> as I am, I like to explore and try everything I can do with it, 
> including going on the internet, which a number of people wouldn't 
> even think about doing or wouldn't care about, and possibly wouldn't 
> be interested in using something like the calculator. It's just enough 
> phone for many individuals to be able to have a phone to use as  just 
> a phone, from easily dialing a phone number to navigating the phone 
> with the text to speech included in the phone, to be able to write a 
> text message, go into your contacts to either look up a phone number 
> which takes no time or when you're going to type in a new contact or 
> write a text message. As far as smart phones we have a modo g android 
> phone, which neither one of us have really got the knack of using and 
> we really want to learn. We're going to get the android book from 
> national braille press which should help in our learning, 
> tremendously. One of these days when we could afford it we'd like to 
> get i phones. We have looked at both the i phones and  the android 
> phones at the store, with the sales person putting the screen reader 
> on. One time we saw that little i phone the s e I think it's called, 
> which seemed pretty easy to navigate, and the phone was a really nice 
> size being small and being small enough to put in a pocket. Everyone 
> differs to much of an extent of how they use anything for that matter. 
> For a smart phone we would want to have the scanning apps, the color 
> identifier, possibly the gps, one  of those apps in case we needed 
> something described, for us not so much for reading books, and 
> listening to the radio or tv, but that's some of what we would use. 
> Having the internet and email handy on the smart phones is great as 
> well. Hopefully in time we'll get use to the smart phones, but I'll 
> never stop using the feature phones because they are just as usefull 
> in their ownway. It's amazing, the topic of the phones is such a big 
> topic. Then there's other things we write about here, sharing 
> information about what appliances are more accessible, such as Roger 
> recently told us about his stove and dryer that are both quite 
> accessible, which was good for us to know about since we need a new 
> stove. we write about our experiences with some of the tvs that have 
> the speech included in them, also share ideas about how to do certain 
> things, whatever comes up for someone, even if it's something like 
> finding the best ways for labeling something, which a number of us 
> have our own individual ways of doing things, that one could figure 
> out and hear what is the closest way they would feel confortable in doing whatever it is. As I said we all vary in either our skill or what we're plain confortable with, and that goes for anything, with so many possibilities. Feel welcome to asking any questions you have, and share any experiences you have had.
> >> Arlene
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "roanna bacchus via
> Electronics-Talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
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> >> Cc: "roanna bacchus" <rbacchus228 at gmail.com>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 1:22 PM
> >> Subject: [Electronics-Talk] Introduction
> >>
> >>
> >>> Dear Members,
> >>>
> >>> My name is Roanna Bacchus, and I am currently seeking employment 
> >>> that
> will allow me to utilize my braille skills and degree.  I love 
> learning about accessible electronics that the blind can use on their 
> own.  I joined this list so I can share my experiences using accessible electronics.
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