[Electronics-Talk] talking phone for home

[Arlene]

Sharon, you might be thinking about the smart phones. If not the smart 
phones, you might remember me writing about the 2 samsung cell phones I 
have, both are feature phones, phones with buttons that have speech included 
in the phones. Both phones speak all the menues, you can write in all  your 
contacts, set up speed dial, use the calculator, write text messages, write 
a shopping list, use the voice recorder  and more. The 2 phones are the 
samsung t-199, which is for t-mobile, and the samsung gusto 3 is for 
verizon. The t-199 is a bar type phone and it's a thin phone, not thick at 
all. The buttons have that rubber sort of feeling, which to me anyway, it's 
pleasant to the touch to my fingers when I'm dialing a number, adding a 
contact or writing a text message. The voice for the speech in the t-199'The 
sounds sort of like seri to me or also the voice that does some of the 
different voice mail boxes on the phones.  It costs About $20 at walmart. At 
the time when I purchased it at t-mobile 3 years ago, it cost $30. It seems 
as if this phone is getting harder to find, but as far as I know it's still 
available. I noticed that amazon was selling it. It's such a good little 
phone. I'll have to check with some of the different stores and t-mobile to 
see if it's still being sold in the store. The t-199 I have on a post paid 
account. gusto 3 is a flip phone and it's a nice sized phone, with the 
buttons that feel smooth feeling. I like it as well as I do the t-199. The 
gusto 3 voice is a very pleasant sounding voice. There's one thing about it 
some people may not like about this phone, that is when you open the phone 
or when you close it, it will tell you the date and time. For me anyway, 
that's one of the very manythings I like about the gusto 3. If you wanted to 
find out the time on the t-199, it's easy to do, by going into the organizer 
and to the world clock. You could even set up times for other cities. You 
could buy the gusto 3 phone for $12.88 from walmart as a prepaid verizon 
account, for unlimited calling it's $30 a month. All the other stores that 
sell the gusto 3 such as target sell the gusto for $20. Both these phones 
are inexpensive but I've had them for a lit over 3 years and they are still 
working well. In the gusto 3 you could set the speed rate  of the speech on 
the phone, if you want to make a little faster than the normal rate it talks 
at. I have some friends that have post paid accounts on verizon so in that 
case the gusto 3 cost $90. If you'd like, I could give you a recorded 
sampling of both phones. There's a few other phones I would like to look 
into. There's the convoy 4 which is for verizon that one of my friends has, 
and the Kyocera Dura XV  that someone on the verizon list told about.  I'm 
hoping to see both of these phones sometime soon when my target store gets 
them in. Another phone that had speech it it is the phone from assurance 
wireless that Sandra told us about, here on electronic talks.

Arlene

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sharon Klug via Electronics-Talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
To: "'Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances'" 
<electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
Cc: "Sharon Klug" <sharonklug9304 at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 9:40 PM
Subject: [Electronics-Talk] talking phone for home


> Hello list:
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> I remember some time back reading about a phone that talked the menus and
> had a phone book in it. You could input all the information and recall 
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> numbers.
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> Does anyone know any information about this phone?
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> Thanks for reading and am looking forward to any information.
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> Sharon
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