[Electronics-Talk] New flip phone?

[Arlene]

Both Wayne and I are on this list, so as he was going through his messages, 
I was listening to some of the messages concerning the flip phones earlier 
this morning. I'm just in the process of going through messages. Anyway, I'm 
going to make some phone calls today to ask about some of these phones. I 
was under the impression from what the 2 guys at target told me that the 
newer doro phone was 4g, but then again I could have misunderstood. I didn't 
think that newer doro talked some of the menues, Joanne, that's really great 
to hear. I hope I can see that phone soon. I have a friend that might really 
like it too, because it would be so easy to use. Tracy, if you're with 
verizon, I think the best phone would be the exalt, or if you're with 
consumer cellular I think the doro would be great. I just like simple, and 
especially with a phone, I know I want in a phone something that I feel that 
I could use easily.
Pam, the flip phone that came out in august, I think it was august 23, as I 
said in my message below is called the oric journey 5. I'll send some 
information about it a little later. That's another few phone calls I'm 
going to make to see what stores carry it, so hopefully I could see it. It 
is a verizon phone, so they could have it possibly at the verizon store, and 
also maybe target and best buy have it amoungst other stores.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arlene via Electronics-Talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
To: "Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances" 
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Cc: "Arlene" <arlenes71154 at earthlink.net>
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2019 11:27 AM
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>
> To: <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
> 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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