Ok, then you will want to use those earphones. I do have some After Shocks ear phones that are bone conduction; you can use Siri with them or answer calls. You can do that with the Apple earphones as well.
If you are able, you can get a braille display (and they make some little ones) to pair with an iPhone so that you can type and read all the text messages you want quietly and tell the speech to shut up. No phone is going to let us do anything quietly unless we can use large print or a braille display. Gigi On Jan 23, 2014, at 11:22 AM, Karen Lewellen <[email protected]> wrote: > makes perfect sense. > for me though, there are just too many times places, extensions and so forth > for this to be reasonable. > I run both a production company and a media nonprofit. There are places > people etc. I may only call once, that I may only visit once etc. > My desire is taking out my phone dialing a call responding to what is needful > and getting on with my day. and indeed because of traffic, other people > near me, and the like I want the exchange to be between me and my phone not > me my phone and a bunch of strangers. same goes for listening to text > messages and sending them. > There are phones that allow for this, lg just issued a new one late last fall > its a 447. > I am in a circumstance where I can have whatever phone I said i wanted, > including any iphone from my provider for free just now. I had voted down an > iphone before, but wanted to check if anything on this front was > better...unfortunately it is not. > Thanks for your wisdom, I appreciate learning what I cannot do as much as > what I can. > > Kare > > On Thu, 23 Jan 2014, Eugenia Firth wrote: > >> Yes, and the commas you put before those extra numbers the longer the iPhone >> waits before putting in the number. This will not work well for you if those >> first extra numbers keep changing, unless you put in a separate contact >> named so that you can tell which one you have. For example, Dallas Area >> Rapid Transit has an option on their computer called Where's My Ride? I put >> in a separate contact and deliberately named it Where's My Ride? instead of >> calling it Dallas Area Rapid Transit. I hope this makes sense. I did this >> because the options for calling up that particular choice was different from >> the scheduling choice; sometimes I want scheduling and sometimes I want to >> check on the ride. Also, I had to do it over traffic and other noises, and >> their awful computer kept responding to any noise it heard. >> >> Gigi >> >> On Jan 23, 2014, at 10:23 AM, Daniel Hawkins <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Yes, you can, depends how fast you at flicking left or right, or finding >>> the dial numbers. Yes, it is slightly slower than what a sighted person can >>> do. >>> >>> If you are dialing a number and you know you will have to press 1 for >>> english, press 4 for your next option. You can save it to your contacts >>> with a comma or two for a few second delay and add the menu number. Say for >>> example put the number 8004561234,1,4 and that will choose the menu options >>> automatically for you, and you don’t have to do anything. >>> >>> This is how I save my bus scheduling number. I just put my bus number and >>> put a comma then what ever menu option that you know you wanted. And you >>> can do this with banks with your account number. >>> Daniel Hawkins >>> - Posted from my Macbook Pro >>> >>> 2012 15in. Macbook Pro >>> 2.3 Quad-core i7 >>> 4GB DDR3 >>> 500GB HDD >>> >>> Dual Boot: >>> Windows 7 Ultimate Edition 64-bit >>> >>> On Jan 23, 2014, at 10:12 AM, Karen Lewellen <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi folks, >>>> I read often that it is difficult if not impossible to dial in a >>>> traditional way using an iphone. >>>> here is a simple example. >>>> Let's say you are traveling, you must dial a location, then a user number, >>>> then an a password. you then must make a series of choices from a menu. >>>> these choices change based on information presented. >>>> I realize many of you use your iphone for a number of different things. >>>> However, I am asking about this specific task. can it be done often with >>>> changing flexibility and effortlessly? >>>> Thanks, >>>> Karen >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to [email protected]. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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