[Electronics-Talk] best flip phone and why

Thu Oct 31 12:04:19 UTC 2019

By the way: I saw the Lucia, last Saturday.  It has all buttons, but it is 
not a flip phone.  Pam.

-----Original Message----- 
From: wayne via Electronics-Talk
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2019 1:27 AM
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Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] best flip phone and why

What phones from sprint are you writing about? if you're wanting to find out
if aps such as aira and be my eyes are on the flip phones I was telling
about in my message, these apps aren't on these flip phones. I don't know of
any flip phones that you can install apps, with the exception of some of the
specialized phones such as the blind shell and the lucia phone, or any other
phones that you use by way of the screen or using the buttons, but that's
something I don't know about. I just wanted to clarify that there are to
kyozera rugged phones that are flip phones, the model for kyozera is called
the dura xv and the sprint model is the dura max, and while flip phones are
getting a bit smarter in the way they operate they aren't quite like full
smart phones. I don't have the tech knowledge as far as knowing what the
operating systems are that run many of the flip phones, but many of them in
the last 2 years are on some sort of android software.

Arlene

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From: "Chikodinaka mr. Oguledo via Electronics-Talk"
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Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] best flip phone and why

> 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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>> 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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