[nabs-l] iPhone 6 or iPhone 6+

Mon Dec 1 02:35:26 UTC 2014

Hi,

I recently purchased an iPhone 6. It is my personal opinion that if
you do not use vision and if you are not a photographer, the iPhone 6
will serve you just fine. The 6+ is great if you have functional
vision and if you can use your phone with vision successfully. The
camera is also slightly better. I think this problem is unique to
mostly women who prefer to carry their phone in their pockets, but the
iPhone 6 barely fits in mine; I could never fit the 6+ into my
pockets. I tend to leave my things around, so having a phone that fits
into my pocket is very important to me; this may not be important for
everyone. Plus, I don't use vision to access my phone, so it was
pretty much a no brainer.

iOS 8 has some annoying bugs, but I think the iPhone 6 or 6+ allows
the most access to the most features of iOS8 just as any latest phone
would lend access to the latest features.

I especially like the Health app; I had contemplated buying an
external exercise tracker, but find the iPhone Health app is
sufficient for what I want to track.

I am not sure what you mean by viewing 2 emails at the same time. I
view one email at a time and am not sure how you would do this. I can
view several email subjects at once, and I suppose you can view more
at once if your screen is bigger, but that is not a new feature in
iOS8 that I have heard about.

Unless you are a super power user or if you don't have access to power
regularly, I don't think you need an external battery pack. For
perspective, I typically run my phone's charge down to 10% if I am out
for 15 hours; this happens a couple times a week when I do things
after school before going home. But I am a power user. I am constantly
on my phone. I check my email, read NPR, school papers, or stream
music on the bus. I use my GPS when I walk around sometimes, and I use
a plethora of other apps. I am constantly texting and checking one
email account on my phone while I have another open on my computer. I
think that I tend to use my phone a lot, and there have been very few
days when I wish I had a battery. Most of the time this happens is if
I forgot to charge my phone the night before. I sometimes forget to
charge my phone if it is still at a high percentage when I go to bed.
If you have regular access to a computer or wall outlet, it would be
less bulky to just buy an extra charge.

So, those are my opinions on the new iPhones and the necessity of an
external battery.

Cindy

On 11/30/14, Joseph Hudson via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi Helga, I do not have either one of the phone that you're looking into
> getting, but the battery question I can definitely answer that for you.
> These are called external batteries and pretty much it say  battery charger.
> So you unplug one end of the cord into the USB port on the phone, and then
> plug another in the battery pack that will charge your phone.
> Joseph Hudson
> jhud7789 at outlook.com
>
>
>
>> On Nov 30, 2014, at 12:59 AM, Helga via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all! how are you all? These questions might sound silly, but I'm just
>> curious! How many of you here by the iPhone 6 or iPhone 6+? Do you like
>> it? What kind of features they have? I'm just wondering since I'm thinking
>> some day buying one of them! Some of my friends told me that they are
>> bigger and that they have many cool things!, like that you can see two
>> emails at the same time! I just would like to hear your opinion about
>> them, since I would not like to to make the wrong decision in buying one
>> of them. I actually have an iPhone 5 and I would like to have one of them.
>> And also, I just wanted to ask you, do you know about some kind of battery
>> that work with the iPhones in order not to bring a charger to places?
>> Someone told me that yu can have some kind of battery that you can charge
>> at home, and then you can take it to different places, and when your
>> iPhone dies, you can put this battery as a replacement! Do you know about
>> anything about this kind of battery? I'm just wondering. Hope to hear from
>> you soon. Thanks so much for all your time and have a nice day. God bless!
>> Helga Schreiber
>>
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Cindy Bennett
1st Year Ph.D. Student, University of Washington
Human Centered Design and Engineering

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Federation of the Blind of Washington
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