Dear Friends, I am now planning to buy a new phone (although my E72 is in good health). The reason for my purchase is that I realize that the learning curve with any touch screen phone is going to be much longer than that with keyboard. I am totally blind and am looking at a high-ended phone. I can choose between Android and Iphone. I would like some advice on this topic from those who are using either systems. I am aware that Iphone is fully or almost fully accessible out of the box but I would like to have some more knowledge on Android.
Games on mobile phones are a totally neglected area for the blind whereas that is one area that sighted people tend to enjoy. I hope the list will be abuzz with interesting discussion on the issue since the more we discuss it will help many more friends. I look forward to good discussion. With regards, Ketan On 10/3/12, Prashant Ranjan Verma <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- Ketan Kothari Phone: [r] 24223281, Cell: 9987550614 MSN ID: [email protected] Skype ID: Ketan3333 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
