[Electronics-Talk] A New Totally-Featured Push-Button Phone is Definitely needed

Sun Jan 15 18:47:20 UTC 2023

My 89 year old Mom is the same way.  Also, I have never been impressed with
the call quality fromcertain phones so I still have both.

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Arlene via Electronics-Talk
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Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] A New Totally-Featured Push-Button Phone is
Definitely needed

My brother and my brother-in-law, both totally sighted prefer a feature or
flip phone, and texting isn't for them. What's best for anyone, such as a
type of phone is wjat they feel more confortable with.
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Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] A New Totally-Featured Push-Button Phone is
Definitely needed

Are feature phones still available for sighted cell phone users? If so then
they should also be available for blind users. Blind people shouldn't be
forced to use a smart phone if sighted people aren't also being forced to do
so. In other words, the same reason a sighted person would prefer a feature
phone would also apply to a blind person. I have a smart phone myself, and I
wouldn't consider switching to a feature phone, but I'm not every blind
person.

--
Christopher (AKA CJ) =>÷
Chaltain at Outlook, USA

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Subject: [Electronics-Talk] A New Totally-Featured Push-Button Phone is
Definitely needed

Good afternoon everyone,

I don't mean to belabor the point but the points made below are a clear
reason why a fully-featured push-button smartphone is needed instead of the
sorry dumb phones that have come out recently which do not allow one to use
services like Lyft and Uber forcing customers capable of using these
services with a push-button phone to use of third party services like Gogo
Grandparent making the use of rideshare services less costly. This is just
one of many examples I can think of why a fully-featured push-button
smartphone is needed. I smell a resolution in the works for consideration at
this year's NFB Convention.

Peter Donahue

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Gerald Levy via Electronics-Talk
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To: cheez via Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Gerald Levy <bwaylimited at verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] That New Phone

GoGo Grandparent allows you to book Uber rides with any telephone, even a 
land line phone, once you register with them.

They charge the regular Uber fare, plus an additional charge of 27 cents per

minute for their service.  So a one hour Uber trip would cost the regular 
Uber fare, plus about an additional $16for the Gogo Grandparent service. 
This could become very, very expensive if you make a lot of trips with Uber.

But the dirty little secret about Uber and Lift that nobody likes to talk 
about is that they can leave you stranded with no way to get home.  Suppose 
you book a Uber trip to go  to a doctor's appointment.  When the appointment

is finished, you call for a return trip to go home, but you are told, sorry,

we don't have any vehicles available to pick you up?  Then what?  Gogo 
Grandparent tells you to have a "Plan B" for such a contingency.  Seriously?

What are you supposed to do?  Walk all the way home?  Caveat emptor. For 
anyone who has used GoGo, please share your experiences.

GoGo Grandparent:

855-GOGO-USA

Gerald

On 1/12/2023 6:34 AM, cheez via Electronics-Talk wrote:
> I wonder if that 800-number gives you the lowest price for an Uber.
> I've never tried the 800-number.  I have the app and it shows at least
> 4 options.
>
> Vince
>
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> From: Electronics-Talk<electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org>  On Behalf
> Of Darla J. Rogers via Electronics-Talk
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2023 5:57 PM
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>
> Oh; no I'm not.  I live near Kansas City, MO.
>
> Because of hand difficulties and lack of sensitivity in my hands plus
> tremors, this phone might be a real solution for me.
>
> Darla
>
>
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> From: Electronics-Talk<electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org>  On Behalf
> Of Donald Moore via Electronics-Talk
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> Cc:don.moore48 at reagan.com
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>
> I don't know if you're still in Florida, but they have an 800 number
> that blind people without the app can call.
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Of Darla J. Rogers via Electronics-Talk
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>
> I think it is called the Blind Shell Classic; while it seems to be
> able to do some things, can anyone look into their crystal ball to see
> if they can or will add programs like Uber?
>
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> Darla
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