[Electronics-Talk] best currently-available flip phones

[Arlene]

Sandra, Accessible electronics might still have the haven phones. If you're 
more interested in Some other ideas of phones besides the haven, I know of 
mostly phones for t-mobile and Verizon. For t-mobile there's 2 flip phones 
that have text to speech alcatel and zte. I think the Alcatel is a bit 
better than the zte. the zte phone is on some different carriers, Walmart 
has the zte for straight talk, and then there's the zte for t-mobile, and 
at&t might have one. The only disappointing thing about these 2 phones the 
symbols don't speak, such as the period, comma, question mark, and so on, 
just about everything talks. Then for verizon besides the gusto 3 that you 
weren't that interested in, there's the kyocera dura xv that has the text to 
speech and it's a flip phone and the symbols do speak. All 3 of these phones 
are a bit different than the samsong phones, the gusto 3 and the t-199, they 
are newer and in a sense a  little more advanced, but they aren't smart 
phones. These 3 phones I mentioned you could even go on the internet a 
little more so than the gusto 3 and the t-199. Now if you wanted to go with 
t-mobile, if you could find a t-199 you might like the phone, it's one of 
the best phones I've had. It's a bar phone and it's not  to thick, and the 
buttons are confortable to dial with. There's a very new phone, it's a flip 
phone, the retro nokia 3310, it's an unlocked phone. I found out that best 
buy is selling it. The salesman looked through the menues on the phone and 
didn't see anything about text to speech that he could tell, and in 
searching for information about the phone, I haven't read anything about it 
having text to speech. Since it's unlocked I don't know what carriers it 
would go on, but possibly like with the nokia phones before about 12 years 
ago, you could have it on either at&t or t-mobile. For verizon the other 
text to speech phone that from what I understand is only for a postpaid 
account is the convoy 4. I haven't seen this phone but I have a friend that 
has the phone and he likes it. Also at best buy they have a track phone that 
has text to speech, but I haven't seen that one, so I don't know how well 
the text to speech is, but it would be interesting to know about that. For 
at&t there's the sim mobile, which seems to be the same phone as the 
alcatel, except it has less in the menues, and I think in this case the 
alcatel is a bit better phone. There's 3 other flip phones, the lg 450, the 
lg 470 and the lg740. I hope that the lg's improve. It was strange, I had 
both the lg 450 and the lg470, and lost speech on both phones. I had 3 
individuals at 3 different phone stores trying to fix both these phones. 
They were able to go through the setting to turn the speech back on but the 
speech didn't go back on which was baffling. About the lg740, we're not sure 
but it may have been the phone that we saw at us celluar, it if was, the 
text to speech wasn't no where as good as the text to speech that they have 
in the lg 450 and the lg470.

Arlene
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From: "Sandra Streeter via Electronics-Talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 2:40 PM
Subject: [Electronics-Talk] best currently-available flip phones


> Hi, all,
>
> Well, I’m finally deciding that, in their current iterations, I am just 
> not made for smartphones, so have come to the somewhat painful but also 
> liberating decision to investigate currently-available flip phones. I had 
> a Haven back in the day, and also tried the LGNV 3 and Gusto, but found 
> they weren’t easy to text with. I am totally blind, and so need full TTS 
> so I can navigate and use functions without sighted assistance; preferably 
> a track-phone, but willing to go with plans if I have to—just would like 
> not to spend some money on contracts, monthly bills, etc. Any ideas? 
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Sandra
>
> “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he 
> hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however 
> measured or far away.”
> (Henry David Thoreau)
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