[Electronics-Talk] best flip phone and why

[Arlene]

Lauren, if you are looking to do as much with your phone as possible, or any 
number of these things I've listed here, including for phone calls, texting, 
emailing, using the calendar, calculator, making recordings with the sound 
recorder, using the world clock, timer, stop watch, and possibly some other 
things, too me, the lg exalt which is a 4g phone is the best flip phone, 
which is for verizon. I don't know if the exalt is used with any of the 
other carriers, as the kyozera dura xv is used by sprint as well, but for 
sprint it's called the duramax. so far it seems that verizon's kyozera 
cadence, kyozera dura xv and the lg exalt are amoungst the best flip phones. 
The z t e flip phones and the alcatel phones even though these phones have 
the text to speech, the set up of the  phone is not good for anyone that 
would like to write text messages and type in their own contacts. 
Unfortunately the symbols don't speak. Both the z t e flip phones and the 
alcate flip phones are used for some different carriers. For example the 
alcatel is used with verizon, t-mobile, a t & t, consumer cellular and 
possibly some other carriers. Z t e phones is used with t-mobile and verizon 
that I know of. So it depends     to anyone of us, what that ideal phone 
would be to us. While I'm going to tell you some details about some of these 
phones that I know about, for me, while the most important thing to me is 
having a phone that I could easily dial a phone number and receive phone 
calls and hear the caller id. To add to that I really love when I could work 
some or all the items in the tools area of the phone. There's 2 kyozera dura 
xv phones, the 3g which I have, and the 4g model. I haven't been able to see 
the 4g dura xv phone. I've got to find a store that has it. The verizon 
store that I usually go to no longer has it. From what I've heard the dura 
xv is set up very much like the cadence phone. Since I have the cadence 
phone, I could tell you about how it is. With the cadence phone when you go 
to dial a number, the best way I could say it is that it's a bit frustrating 
until you get use to it, and then again it might be something you don't want 
to get use too. When dialing a digit of a phone number, if you don't dial 
the second digit fast enough, the voice wants to read you the main screen, 
for example, left soft key and so on. But if you don't find that confusing 
or annoying, you can dial numbers easily enough. The cadence has the caller 
id. texting can be done on this phone, and you could even read your message 
before you send it. The items that are the most accessible and set up well 
enough to use are  the notepad, sound recorder, and world clock. The regular 
calculater is unusable due to whenever you press any digits, the phone 
continues to read the calculator screen. Either setting an alarm in the 
alarm clock or setting up an advent in the calendar, while it's doable it's 
painstaking due to when you're  arrowing up and down to get the number hour 
you need, for example, the number just changes once. For example if in 
setting the alarm it's on 5:00, and you want to change it to 8, when you 
arrow down to 6 you'll here 6, arrowing down once more being on 7 the 
phone's voice says 6 again, and arrowing down again to 8, the phone's voice 
says 6. So knowing this about the phone you would keep track of the times 
you're arrowing down to get to the right hour number you need. When you've 
got the alarm set that's when you hear wether it's all correct. I don't know 
if the dura xv is set up any better than the cadence, but if at all possible 
it's good when you could   work the phone in the store before you even 
consider buying it, if in the store they have it out on the counter in the 
store as a demo phone. More and more lately I've been hearing about how in a 
number of the stores, they don't have the flip phones out as demos on the 
counter so therefor you couldn't completely check out how the phones are set 
up.
The lg exalt phone, is the best  set up flip phone out of the  flip phones 
that I know of. You could easily dial phone numbers, and the exalt has the 
caller id. writing a text on the exalt is great, since you could read what 
you wrote in your message so far or read the message before you send it. 
With arrowing right or left, you could easily corect any mis spelled words, 
by back spacing on any wrong letters and typing the 1 or 2 right letters. 
I couldn't seem to corect any mispelled words in a text message written with 
the cadence.  I can use just about all the items in the tools area of the lg 
exalt, of which that's the second of 2 locations for the voice command. The 
voice recorder is very easy to record with. In fact I found that you could 
close the phone when you're recording. It's very easy and set up 
impressively well,  in setting up an event in the calendar and also setting 
the alarm clock. In either one the calendar or setting an alarm  in the 
alarm clock,you would press the left soft key for setting the time.  for 
example in the alarm clock, once you press the left soft key to set, the 
phone's voice will  say enter hour, and you would arrow up or down for the 
right hour number, then when you arrow right it will say enter minute, if 
you arrow right again it will say am and if you need pm just arrow down 
once. In either the calendar or typing someone's birthday in a contact for 
that person, it's the same, with pressing left soft key for set, the phone's 
voice says enter month, and arrow up or down for the right month, after 
getting the right month, than arrow right and it will sayenter day, and 
after arrowing up or down for the number of the date, arrowing right again 
it will say enter year, arrow up or down for the right year. It's so easy to 
use the calendar and alarm clock the way it's et up. I also enjoy using the 
calculator in the lg exalt. One of the neatest things about it, after you've 
done your calculation and your pess the center soft key for the answer, 
before it gives you the answer it will repeat your calculations and then 
give you the answer. Using the notepad is easy  to use, I have a shopping 
list in my notepad area, and it's hahndy  to write down any other 
information. You can go into the browser on both phones, but it seems a 
little easier navigating on the cadence's browser. Then again maybe I just 
need to work on getting more use to the browser on the exalt. You could set 
up email on both these flip phones. The only drawback is, that  I don't know 
if it  isn't capable of reading the body of a message. One thing that works 
easily even though usually I can't read the body of the message with either 
of these phones, If I send alink to a web site in an email to the phone I 
could press the center soft key and it will enter on the link to the web 
site and open it in the browser. There's some different phone features in 
both phones for call blocking, setting up speed dial numbers and some other 
things.We haven't gotten to the stores yet so we haven't tried out any of 
the other new phones. As soon as we do I'll send another message about what 
they are like.If anyone does know what the orbic journey is like, or if you 
know more about the 4g dura xv let us know, and we're still going to check 
out the consumer cellular phones.From what I know sprint has the kyozera 
dura xv except that they call it the duramax, both verizon and sprint sell 
the phone for about $270. The dura xv and the dura max are the rugged flip 
phones and these phones are waterproof, meaning that they are very sturdily 
made and a little thicker than the other flip phones.
For my question if anyone knows, I was reading that in dallas, texas and 
some other cities, they are begining with 5g phones, does anyone know of any 
5g flip phones? I was just wondering, though we'll be able to use our 4 g 
phones for a good while.

Arlene
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lauren Merryfield via Electronics-Talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 6:25 AM
Subject: [Electronics-Talk] best flip phone and why


> Hi,
>
> Which is the best flip phone and why? Which one does the most?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lauren
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