so finally almost all my doubts cleared now. Great observation... Thanks for such an informative mail. Even vamshi sir will be agree with me, i am sure for that
On 4/19/13, prateek aggarwal <prateekagarwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Folks: > during my stay on this list from last few days, I’ve been able to > observe that there are quite a lot of confusions in regards to which > phone one should buy, and specially the accessibility of android based > phones. > Being a user of a number of phones right from symbian second edition > to the smartphone breeds, I thought to answer the questions based on > my personal observations and experiences if they can help someone in > some ways. > Like vamshi bro pointed out, choosing a suitable phone has really > become million dollar question these days keeping in mind: > I phone(costly), Nokia (outdated), Android(confusing) etc. > iPhone, particularly is indeed very accessible, but its far too costly > than most users shall appreciate to buy. Hence, I’d like to > specifically focus on whether one should buy nokia or android, and > what specific things one should keep in mind in order to choose an > android phone. > > well, the answer to that question is indeed difficult, and actually > quite subjective to the choice and circumstances of every > individual. > say, for instance, those who do not have much time/interest to > explore and just require a solution that's tried and tested, > some phones of nokia are still available in the stock unofficially, > that they can buy and start using right away. > it, however is the reality that symbian is no more available and > no further such phones are being manufactured by the company > anymore. therefore, android is the best option keeping the > availability, cost and accessibility in mind. about android > version, both 4.0 and 4.1 are accessible, none of them is 100% > accessible though. > well you have to accept the fact that android is comparitively new > and while i personally appreciate google's efforts of implementing > out of the box accessibility features, it'll obviously take time to > jell with the expectations of the visually challenged individuals who > as well have diverse needs/requirements depending on their > environments and demographics. > > so, if you choose to buy the android phone, keep the following things in > mind: > > •whatever someone might claim, no android phone is 100 percent > accessible as of now, though the statement depends on what tasks you > would like to perform with your phone, as a lot of them shall be > accessible and a lot of them won't be. > > •android requires the user to have quite a learning curve and the > patience as one might need to install, try and test with a number of > third party apps in order to get some tasks done. so if you are not > interested/motivated for the same, reconsider your decision. > > •most of the android based phones that you'll find in the market are > touchscreen based. while the android certainly has accessibility > features to enable users to use touch screen with > screenreaders/magnification applications, i can tell you out of my > personal experiences that the best speed and comfort that you can find > is to have the phone that has both touch and type available, although > i'm fortunate to be able to use 100 percent touchscreen phones as well > with quite a reasonable speed. > > •the tasks like messaging, contacts, phone, music, camera etc are over > 90 percent accessible in my experience. > •Log is slightly inaccessible in comparision to nokia phone, but still > manageable. > •GPS works fairly good, and the support of google maps is excellent. > •fm radio is slightly inaccessible, internet radios are manageable > with the help of third party apps. > •There are apps available for emailing, facebook, twitter, skype, call > recording, dictionary, daisy book reading and other such basic tasks, > which are reasonaablly accessible. > •reading word, excel and pdf document is not much accessible as yet. > •there are apps for colour identification, face recognition, OCR etc > which though are not perfectly developed as yet, but certainly looks > promising. > > •the versions of android shall keep improving, and they really have > to. however, the accessibility available in android 4.0 and 4.1 is > quite reasonable, and either of them can be chosen with no hezitations > as such. even the 4.0, for instance provides you quite a number of > options to use the phone accessiblly, and 4.1. only adds the icing on > the cake. personally, i did not find much of a difference in 4.1 and > 4.2 though. > > •considering the fact that android does have the in-built > accessibility options available, most of the phones that you buy from > the market should be usable without much of a configguration. though, > i personally found out that some phones of HTC and LG were using a > broken accessibility architecture, and did have issues that are not > found in many of the companion phones. > > •rs. 10 to 12 thousand is quite a reasonable amount to obtain a good > android phone. fortunately, you've got plenty of options and brands > available to choose from, and i don't see a reason why you shouldn't > be able to get a good phone with reasonable features in this amount. > > in a nutshell, the decision to buy or not buy android is completely > subjective depending on the above points, and if you've got the > courage, learning curve, need and excitement of using an android based > phone, go for one, and you'll definetly enjoy it. > technologies are changing fast, and android is the most latest option > for any mobile buyers including visually impaired individuals if they > have to step with the changing trends. particularly about visually > impaired persons, i personally advise to go for it if you can, as the > feedback from most possible users can only make the good things > happened, and only then we, as a group of visually impaired > individuals shall be able to turn the stones in our favor by getting > more features implemented both by google as well as the third parties. > > I don’t know if the above lengthy email has helped anyone of you, but > if it has helped in any little way, please feel free to write back > for anymore questions/queries/doubt that you may have, where you feel > that I can help you with. > Please understand that above points are based only on my personal > observations and experiences which are of course limited and they may > or may not be true in your context. > Thank you for reading my such a lengthy email, and I’ll be happy to > learn from your experiences as well. Please write back with your > experiences especially if they add or correct something to my > observations written above. > Regards, > Prateek agarwal. > CEO, > Daedal technovations pvt. Ltd. > www.daedaltechnovations.com > > Search for previous postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/mobile.accessindia@accessindia.org.in > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile.accessindia mailing list > Mobile.accessindia@accessindia.org.in > http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > to post send mail to: mobile.accessindia@accessindia.org.in > Search for previous postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/mobile.accessindia@accessindia.org.in _______________________________________________ Mobile.accessindia mailing list Mobile.accessindia@accessindia.org.in http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in to post send mail to: mobile.accessindia@accessindia.org.in
