[Electronics-Talk] best flip phone and why

Thu Oct 31 01:09:05 UTC 2019

those fones from sprint do b my eyes or aira?

On 10/30/19, Arlene via Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 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"
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> To: "'Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances'"
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> Cc: "Lauren Merryfield" <lauren at catlines.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 6:25 AM
> Subject: [Electronics-Talk] best flip phone and why
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>> Hi,
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>> Which is the best flip phone and why? Which one does the most?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Lauren
>>
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