[blindkid] iPhone and iPad

[Richard Holloway]

An option that can help with WiFi-only solutions is that some cell phones can now "tether" to allow a wifi hot spot which an iPad or iPod touch can access when near the tethered phone, or my personal favorite option, a Clear wireless device which is a 4G wireless hotspot. Other carriers also offer similar devices, including Sprint, which (at least in Atlanta) is actually the same network as Clear Wireless. I think one company owns a big chunk of the other...

My hot spot has a faster-than-dsl connection all over most major cities and drives data to multiple computers, cell phones, iPads, etc., all over town in the car, on vacations, etc. (It keeps the whole family on-line every year at the national convention!) It is also a dandy home backup web service in case your cable, DSL, etc., goes down. In other words, it offers a lot of bandwidth and flexible options for less than most cell plans if your child isn't in need of a cell phone yet.

Oh, and as a big bonus for Apex users? (or anyone using a wifi capable Braille notetaker) you can, of corse, use this to use the web on family outings in the car, or when traveling on a bus, etc.

SOOOOOO many cool new gadgets.... So much bandwidth.... But alas, so little time and money

Sent from my iPad

On Oct 25, 2012, at 10:50 PM, SUSAN POLANSKY <sepolansky at verizon.net> wrote:

> We were not ready to buy an iPone and data plan so we got Jason the iPod touch, it does need to connect to a wireless network to work. The iPod Touch is basicly the iPhone without the phone. He has apps that tell him the color of his clothes, identifies money, tells him if he has left the lights on, etc. He also has lots of fun apps. He does email and faecbook on it and searches the web. 
> Braille Press has a book on apps, this is how he found some of the ones he uses.
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> Susan T. Polansky
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