Hello, I recently bought Samsung galaxy S3 android phone. You will know that along with iPhone it is touted as the best smart phone and the internet is full of comparisons. I chose to buy this instead of iPhone 5 because first in India iPhone 5 will arrive only in November or December and secondly the new Maps application is not likely to work in India until further few months on the iPhone. In addition to this I wanted to test book reading apps on android as a part of my professional work.
With Talkback, eyes free keyboard and few other apps this phone has become accessible. Despite no physical keys it is possible to do everything on the phone although several things take much more time as compared to a phone with full keypad. The voice recognition feature is much improved and I am eagerly waiting for its Jelly bean update after which it will be possible to do more with voice. Even now I am able to search contacts and send sms with the voice recognition app. This phone is a delight for a person with low vision. The fantastic big screen with the option of increasing the font size to large or huge makes the screen readable. The digital magnifying apps are also wonderful. They convert this device into a good reading tool giving serious competition to the digital magnifiers which alone sell for 20 K and beyond. I won't recommend this to a totally blind person yet. It will be an unnecessary extra expenditure on a big screen. Time permitting I will write more on this. Prashant Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
