[blindkid] ipod touch/nano/cell phones?

[Sally Thomas]

My son has an iPhone and has used an iPod touch (I'm now the proud owner of 
his iPod touch!).  He absolutely loves them.  He preferred the iPod touch to 
the Nano--which also has talking menus--because it can do so much more.  He 
was actually able to send text messages with the touch (there's an app for 
that). I'd highly recommend the off the shelf accessible devices over 
devices that have to have special software downloaded to them.  I don't have 
a lot of experience with this but I did hear that when the new Windows 
phones came out, they were not compatible with the voice software and it was 
somewhat of a mess for those users.  I know there are more off the shelf 
accessible devices all the time but Apple products have worked well for my 
son.

Sally Thomas
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lynda Zwinger" <lyndaz918 at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List,(for parents of blind children)" 
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Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 2:48 PM
Subject: [blindkid] ipod touch/nano/cell phones?


> Hello all,
>
> My son is turning 12, and wants an iPod Touch or a cell phone for his
> birthday.  We are probably not going to go there for another year or two,
> but just in case we turn soft, does anyone have any advice about
> easiest/most accessible brands or type of phones and/or any experience 
> with
> blind kids and iPods?
>
> thanks!
>
> Lynda Zwinger
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