[Electronics-Talk] New flip phone?

[joanne]

Arlene, please let us know if you find out anything about the Orbit.  I 
haven't heard of this, and my Cadence and I are not friends.  I have wanted 
to look at the Exalt but haven't been able to get one and switch out sim 
cards.  Thanks for your thoughts on these phones.




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From: "Arlene via Electronics-Talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2019 11:27 AM
To: "Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances" 
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Cc: "Arlene" <arlenes71154 at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] New flip phone?

> 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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> Cc: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2019 10:25 AM
> Subject: [Electronics-Talk] New flip phone?
>
>
>>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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