Hullo,
list of cell phones accessible with talks is as follows.
Nokia 3230
Nokia 3600
Nokia 3620
Nokia 3650
Nokia 3660
Nokia 6260 (flip phone)
Nokia 6600
Nokia 6630 (3G phone)
Nokia 6670
Nokia 7610
Nokia 7650
Nokia N70
Nokia N Gage
Nokia N Gage QD
Siemens SX1
Panasonic X700 (flip phone)
Panasonic X701
Samsung SGH-D720
Source - From RNIB Technology Team - Accessible mobile phones factsheet
http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicwebsite/public_m
obphonesfactsheet.hcsp
regards
----- Original Message -----
From: "sriram kalyanaraman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 10:11 AM
Subject: [AI] Cell Phone for the visuallly impaired
> Hi,
>
> Kindly indicate which phone models are compatible with Ttalk software
> used in cell phones.
>
> Thanks,
> K. Sriram
>
> Per <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I havn't read about this topic in this list and it could be interesting
> for
> some of you. Spice from India announced a Braille phone for blind people.
> The following is from a Blog (source at bottom):
>
> .... very interested in Spice Mobile's low-cost phone for the blind. The
> "Phone for the Visually Impaired" is a very simple,
> voice-only phone with a braille keypad. When you press a button, it speaks
> the number, and when you press the call key, it speaks the number you
> dialed.
> It has ten speed dials, and it could retail for less than $20.
>
> Spice reps at the show said they're in touch with various advocates and
> charities for the blind, and could produce the phone in European, American
> GSM,
> or even CDMA models, covering the globe. If it's sponsored by a charity,
> the
> phones could even be free.
>
> Voice phone calls are probably one of the most blind-friendly technologies
> I
> can think of, so it's very surprising to me that Braille phones with voice
> prompts are so few and far between. Samsung released one in China in 2006,
> and Samsung phones in general can be set to speak everything they do, but
> the
> low cost of this model could get a lot of blind people across the globe
> connected.
>
> Spice also showed the "People's Phone," which is like the Braille phone
> but
> without the Braille. The displayless People's Phone will retail for $10-20
> in
> India, said Spice product development head Anuj Nangia.
>
> Removing the display helps the People's Phone avoid the fate of the
> MOTOFONE
> F3, a black-and-white-display phone produced by Motorola that didn't sell
> as
> well as expected in India. A display raises expectations of text messaging
> and multimedia, where removing the display (and pricing the phone at $10)
> makes
> it clear this is just a voice device, Nangia said.
>
> "It's like the olden days, when we had fixed lines with no display," he
> said.
>
>
> Source:
> http://www.gearlog.com/2008/02/spice_mobiles_phone_for_the_bl.php
>
> Best regards, Per
>
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