[Electronics-Talk] best currently-available flip phones

Fri Nov 24 17:00:48 UTC 2017

Thank you, Pam, for answering these questions for me and telling me a bit 
more that I would have asked you about. I'll have to make an audio file of 
this sim mobile which sounds the same, but yours does have so much more in 
it.  That's really  something about how under the 1 and the 0, with the 
different arrangement of symbols.  I've really got to go back there and look 
at that phone some more and maybe even get it.
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From: "Pamela Dominguez via Electronics-Talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
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Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] best currently-available flip phones


> There is FM radio in the phone, but I have never tried it.  As far as it
> saying symbols, I haven't texted on it, yet, just added contacts.  I
> discovered something strange.  The texting symbols are not the same
> universally.  I have a paper I wrote when I wrote about the LG Reviere for
> Virginia.  When I used it to try to put things in the Victor reader trek,
> the symbols on the 1 and the 0 work out differently.  There are a bunch of
> ring tones on my phone, but none of them are loud.  They are all tinkly
> little things, so I have had times when I couldn't hear my phone when I
> needed to.  And I have them as loud as they can go.  I tried to hook up 
> the
> phone to the computer, but it won't show up.  And in the settings, there 
> is
> a folder of the ring tones on the phone, and there is a separate folder 
> for
> ring tones you put into the phone.  Pam.
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Arlene via Electronics-Talk
> Sent: Friday, November 24, 2017 7:55 AM
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> Pam, It didn't seem to talk the symbols from when I was looking at it in 
> the
> store, such as the question mark, at sign, comma and so on. I'll have to
> write the list from one of my other phones because most likely the list is
> the same so that's what I would do if I ever got the same phone you have. 
> On
> the t-199, I just press the 1 key until I hear the right symbol. On the
> gusto 3 the symbols are in the options and it works that way with the
> kyocera. Now, Pam, I was just going through exploring the phone in the 
> store
> so I could have missed something. That at&t phone that I said was just 
> like
> the alcatel, it has a radio included in that phone but we haven't gotten 
> it
> to work, even putting head phones on as it says to do. Is there a radio in
> the alcatel. The difference between the alcatel and the sim mobile is that
> you have more options and menues in your phone, than the sim mobile. It's
> really strange the sim mobile only has one ringtone. Does your alcatel 
> come
> with a bunch of ringtones like other phones come with?
>
> ARlene
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>> What did you find that it did not speak?  For me, I know it speaks a lot,
>> but I don't know if it speaks everything accurately.  On this phone, I 
>> can
>> check battery level, but I can't check signal strength.  I also can't
>> figure
>> out the settings about flip open to talk, or not.  I want to be able to
>> put
>> a headset on without having to have the phone open.  Pam.
>>
>> -----Original Message----- 
>> From: Arlene via Electronics-Talk
>> Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2017 3:22 PM
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>> and
>> appliances
>> Cc: Arlene
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>>
>> Steve, I'm just curious, if you would or could answer, which carrier your
>> wife's alcatel is through? Since you mentioned sprint, you both might be
>> on
>> sprint. I haven't looked into what flip phones that sprint  has. I took a
>> good look at the alcatel phone at the t-mobile store, after the salesman
>> put
>> the speech on for me, and there were some things it doesn't speak.
>>
>> Arlene
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
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>>
>> My wife has an Alcatel phone, and although it technically does everything
>> it says it does, it has some rough edges.  I did not see the LG terra
>> offered through Sprint, is it an unlocked phone, and does anyone know how
>> it compares with the Alcatel phones, especially regarding voice quality
>> and
>> responsiveness?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Steve Jacobson
>>
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>> Behalf Of evelyn weckerly via Electronics-Talk
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>> Hi, Arlene,
>>
>> Roger Behm has sent excellent information to this discussion.  He
>> caught a really good sale.  I didn't, so I had to pay $100 for
>> mine.  At the time I didn't have much waiting time available and
>> help was intermittent.  My 7-year-old LG was getting prettyiffy,
>> and it's slowness was failing for getting help by phone with
>> themess-up in my voice mail.  I had to go to two Verizon stores
>> before getting a Terra, but I have no regrets at all.  Like Roger
>> and his disife, I use mine for phone calls and can use it for
>> text messages.  I too have no data plan.  Someone sighted has to
>> turn on the accessability, but after that everything talks.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Evelyn
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Arlene via Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
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>> appliances"<electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
>> Date sent: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 19:23:45 -0600
>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] best currently-available flip
>> phones
>>
>> Evelyn, how much does the lg tera cost? Hopefully I could find it
>> at the
>> verizon store where I live.  just in case anyone is wondering
>> about how much
>> the kyocera dura xv, I think it was about $120 which I purchased
>> out right.
>> I'm going to make sure on the price of it.
>> ----- Original Message -----
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>> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 7:59 PM
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>> phones
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>>
>> Sandra,
>>
>> If you are with Verizon, check out the LG Tera.  It has full
>> screen read-out-in  other words, everything talks.  It's much
>> bigger than older LG flip phones.  As for contracts, the big
>> companies have been doing away with them.  I got mine a couple
>> months ago and just paid for the phone outright and am on no
>> contract any more.
>>
>> Evelyn
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Sandra Streeter via Electronics-Talk
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>> Date sent: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 15:40:27 -0500
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>>
>> 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
>>
>> ?œIf 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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