Dear AmiyoDa As Harish Suggested, it would be best that you could join access-India mobile mailing list. There you would be able to get many tips and tricks to get the most on your phone and also advice on trouble shooting.
I will put in some of my thoughts below: There is no harm in writing to Nokia about continuing with C5. How ever, they have left the complete platform of Symbian Series 60 phones. This makes more difficult to gat a full batch of a model out in market. They would create at least few million phones of one model which has support, distribution and all different issues attached to it. Such a majour decision to come out with one more Symbian series 60 phone would be a very big decision and may not be taken in India and we may need to go to Finland for it. Organisations such as RNIB etc. are already in touch with them but for an issue that they should make their windows phones accessible. Most of VI in Europe and north America have shifted to IPone thus there is not so much pressure from those countries for keypad phone such as C5. For few years to come we will continue to get second hand phones of C5 or E5. These would work well for now and may also be cheeper option. Android phones are doing quite good now. It iscomparitively more time taking to dial or typeon touch screen than on keypad. How ever, rest of functions are more accessible and they will get better in time to come. Off an don we will keep getting some android phones with keypad also. Samsung chat was one of such models. Micromax too had a model like that. They areboth, with toch screen and keypad. There are some good keypadblackberry phones. I do not expect enhancements such as Indian languages or goodaccessible navigationor book playback coming on it though. Most of our future research and development is concentrated on android platform and it is for following direction: Getting a numeric keypad phone Simple to use interface on touch screen Bluetooth keypad and set of applications that can give you easy to use experience. It is not a bad idea to start playing with touch screens as this reality is not going to be reversed and we will always have better options on touch screen based deices. Touch screen devices also have good voice recognition facility. Thus we may be able to make some real use of voice commands instead of keyboard in recent future. Example, I have switched to voice command on android phone to set an alarm. I just have to say se talarm for 5:30 AM and it does so without any problem. Thanks Dipendra -----Original Message----- From: AccessIndia [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of harish Sent: 28 July 2013 16:14 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AI] Cry for Mobile Handset with Keypad. Amiyo Many blind persons have already moved out of Symbian / Nokia phones. We have made the Mobile Accessibility list especially catering to this requirement. You don't need to get worked up on it. However, do take extra care of your existing Symbian phones so the transition fobia is pushed forward and you get more accessible device then. Garnering support for C5 is not a bad idea at all. However, the new commers to mobile phone would be more benefited with the newer OS as they don't have to unlearn something. Harish. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Amiyo Biswas" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2013 8:47 AM Subject: [AI] Cry for Mobile Handset with Keypad. > Hello, > > Many of my friends in West Bengal and Tripura are looking for > Talks-compatible handsets with keypad. Can Saksham make some arrangements > with Nokia? I am using this forum for support from other members. I am > also afraid, if I lose my present handset, what will happen? > > > With best regards, > Amiyo Biswas > Cell: +91-9433464329 > > Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of > mobile phones / Tabs on: > http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessind ia.org.in > > > 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 > > > Disclaimer: > 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of > the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its > veracity; > > 2. 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