David, Whilst you have noble aims, I think there are some things you may have missed;
1) 3 in the UK have been doing a "Data Only" package for several years and all the big 5 UK providers (O2, Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile, and 3) have a data-only "Mobile Broadband" or "Mobile Internet" offering. 2) I'd like to know where you have got the 9 million figure from. The UK health service (the NHS) have 54,500 people registered deaf and 164,600 registered as hard of hearing. So if you're looking to build a business in the UK for deaf people based on 9 million potential customers and no competitors I would suggest you do a bit more market research. Al. P.S. A family member of mine is deaf in one ear, has significant loss in the other, yet is still able to interact with audio devices, so I'd suggest sub-titling may be useful only to a very small minority of Android users. -- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of DavidDB Sent: 29 June 2009 01:39 To: Android Discuss Subject: [android-discuss] ANDROID DEAF users Phone - Network - Tariff Nine million people in the UK (15% of the population) suffer from permanent, disabling hearing loss. The estimated demographic figure has ranged from 22 million deaf and hard of hearing to as high as 36 million deaf and hard of hearing worldwide. Of these, only a few million are considered "deaf" and the remainder are hard of hearing but cannot use a phone. for 30 years this group has had to PAY for Unused "Call Time" and are sick of it. I will launch a Data only package for registered DEAF users within 3 months in the UK but wishes a a network would provide a worldwide backbone for these services. the first phone available will be the HTC HERO but other ANDROID phones will be introduced later in the year. I want to hear from DEAF Users - (especially the angry ones that are fed up with the way DEAF users are treated) I especially want to hear from developers that can provide as real time as possible SUBTITLES to speech. Switch on the app and anything heard by microphone could be sent to a server for voice to text and squirted back to the phone. Come on IBM we know you love Android :) So All you can eat Data Plan - Pay for calls as you go. a Lovely Android Phone and best of all IF your a network it could add millions of LOYAL customers and their mothers and brothers. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
