[Electronics-Talk] New flip phone?

[Tracy Carcione]

Thanks Arlene.  I had forgotten a new phone might not have the talking
caller ID, among other things.
There's a Verizon store close by, and Target isn't too far away, either,
so I guess we'll go both places and check things out in person.
Tracy

> Tracy, from what I know the consumer cellular phone the duro doesn't talk
> all the menues, I could be wrong, but from what I understand it just talks
> the numbers. I have the verizon flip phones, the lg exalt which is the
> most
> accessible  in many ways, the kyozera cadence and  a new flip phone as of
> 2
> months ago called etalk which is on an android  operating system, and some
> of the buttons aren't labeled, such as when you're writing a text message.
> My very favorite phone out of the 3 of these phones I have is the lg
> exalt,
> whether you're husband uses the phone for some texting, and likes to make
> use of the sound recorder or the calendar or calculater or he just uses
> the
> phone, just for a phone this phone is set up so well and is the best
> phone.
> If he just uses it for phone calls I think it's the best out of the phones
> I've mentioned, that's if you have verizon. Getting back to the duro I
> think
> it does have the talking caller id, which I'll find out about that from
> the
> guys at our target store, they've been very helpful to us. Now it seems
> like
> for the most part the other cariers are using the alcatel, which isn't as
> truly accessible. I find it rather confusing to write a text message,
> plus,
> especially as in many of the verizon phones, the options when writing a
> text
> message, such as the symbols, upper case, lower case, numbers can't be
> accessed. T-mobile, a t and t and some other carriers  use the alcatel.
> Verizon and sprint have the 4 g dura xv, which is what verizon  calls it
> and
> sprint calls it the dura max. I heard from someone that had seen  the dura
> xv 4g phone, that it's set up very much like the cadence phone, it's
> almost
> a little too chatty, and the other drawback is the calendar, especially
> the
> calendar and other items in the tools area aren't set up very well and
> acutally a few of those items, such as the calculator is unusable. While
> your husband may not be interested in using some of these other items in
> the
> phone, I'm just giving you an idea about some of these different phones.
> For
> the cadence though using the sound recorder is easy, and you could write
> text messages and even arrow up or down and read what you wrote before you
> send it. Now some of the best things on the exalt, that's really
> impressive
> is in setting up an event in the calendar, setting an alarm in the alarm
> clock, setting a birth date, when setting up a contact or setting the
> ringtone is so easy. What's so neat and makes it so doable and easy, let's
> say if you're setting an alarm you would press the left soft key to set,
> and
> it will say enter hour so you arrow up or down for the hour number you
> need,
> then arrow right again and it will say enter minute so you would arro up
> and
> down for the minute number you want, or you could arrow up to 0 if for
> example you want it to be 6:00,  and arrowing right again it will say am
> or
> pm and you would arrow down to which one you need. It's the same in the
> calendar when setting a date, press the left soft key to set, and the
> phone
> will say enter month, arrow up or down for the month you need, arrow right
> again and it will say enter day, and you arrow up or down for the date
> number for the day, and arrowing right again the phone says enter year, so
> you would arrow up or down for the year you need. it's really easy to look
> up dates in the calendar, we did it last night, the calendar goes from
> 1902
> to 2036. Tracy, If you have any questions or anyone else has anyquestions
> just ask. Tracy, I've got some detailed information about some of these
> phones, that I could send you off list. There[s another brand new phone
> that's for verizon that came out in august, a flip phone called the orbic
> Journey 5. If anyone knows anything about it, let us know here on the
> list.
> I'm going to call verizon to see if they have it at the verizon store so
> maybe I could see it, it costs about $100. The cadence is $120 and the
> exalt
> costs $144, and is worth every cent of that $144, and the etalk was only
> $25
> when we got it at walmart, but it seems that it's about $52 at other
> stores.
> The dura xv and the dura max are about $270 and there the rugged type flip
> phones. my email address is
> arlenes71154 at earthlink.net
>
> Arlene
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tracy Carcione via Electronics-Talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
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> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2019 10:25 AM
> Subject: [Electronics-Talk] New flip phone?
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>
>>I am told that my husband's Haven flip phone won't be supported anymore
>> after January 1.  Can anyone recommend a newer phone that is as simple
>> to
>> use?
>> He wants real buttons that are easy to feel.  He only uses it to talk,
>> and
>> doesn't care about anything else.
>> He has absolutely no interest in a smart phone of any kind.
>> I see Consumer Cellular sells something called the Duro.  Is that any
>> good?  Or some other simple phone?
>> Thanks.
>> Tracy
>>
>>
>>
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