[Electronics-Talk] talking phone for home

[Andy Baracco]

Clarity makes landline phones for people with hearing and visual 
disabilities. If you live in California you can get these phones for free 
through a special state run program. I do not have a web site for Clarity, 
but you can find them through a Google search.

Andy

----- 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: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 4:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] talking phone for home


> I'm talking about a home phone. Thanks for your information though.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Mar 21, 2017, at 10:43 PM, Arlene via Electronics-Talk 
>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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 
>>> phone
>>> numbers.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Does anyone know any information about this phone?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for reading and am looking forward to any information.
>>>
>>> Sharon
>>>
>>>
>>>
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