I have gone through almost all the replys here. In my experience, transition from a keyphone to a touch phone was smooth. If touch and type is difficult, the voice dictation is is doing a good job and improving regularly both in Android and IOS. If this is also not satisfactory, then a mini bluetooth keyboard is a handy companion. I cannot quite agree that touch screen based phones decrease operating speed by a visually impaired person. Its the matter of individual's ability. Somebody wanted IOS in new proposed phone that never going to be materialized as IOS is purely Apple's proprietary operating system, which can never be used in any Phones other than Apple's one. No lisense will be granted for this by the Apple.
I have a few questions. 1. Basically, what is the planned specification for the phone? 2. Can the decent specification (on par with present day market) be given for the price planned? 3. The present day mobile Operating systems are being subjected to regular security tests and whenever a vulnerability is found, the security patches are released and updated. Will this proposed phone considers that? Note: These days even the payments /netbanking is done using phone hence the security is of paramount importance. 4. The new versions of operating systems are released periodically to cater the various new requirements. After few newer versions, some of the apps stop supporting the older version. Eg: The whatsapp no longer available for the phones with Android V 2.3 or below. 5. Whether the proposed phone has planned for any bench mark certification? if not then what is guarentee of standard and quality? Note: The Phones manufactured should be able to meet certain standards. If not, no agency, regulatory bodies, Mobile service providers may not accept such phones. Instead of trying to manufacture phone with keypad, It would be nice to focus on developing apps to smoothen/improve the accessibility of the existing phones. Ps: I have no dislike for phones with keypad, but I feel we have come a long way from keypad phones and almost all apps these days have been designed for touch interface. 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