[Mobile.AI] regarding talks registration
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Re: [Mobile.AI] which phone should you buy?
Hi very nicely summarised dilemma of choosing between nokia and android. I would like to add here that blackberry is also working on its screen reader and has also brought out an update. although the models supported are few in numbers, it may offer the convenience of a qwerty phone with very nice build quality. There is little doubt about the sturdiness and stability of blackberry devices and if they continue to improve upon their screen readers, it could be a very nice option for the VI. But obviously someone will have to take the plunge and experiment with the blackberry model. I have come to know that even reliance CDMA has such an option called the blackberry curve 9350. So we may finally have an accessible CDMA phone in india. One thing worth noting is that the blackberry screen reader is also free although it has to be installed manually first. On 19/04/2013, S R Mittal srmit...@gmail.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Mobile.accessindia [mailto:mobile.accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of prateek aggarwal Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 6:01 PM To: mobile.accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: [Mobile.AI] which phone should you buy? 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choosing a suitable phone has really become million dollar question these days keeping in mind: I phone(costly), Nokia (outdated), Android(confusing) etc.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
Re: [Mobile.AI] which phone should you buy?
you are right sir this was the best axplaination i have ever read on any mailing list. Black berry can be proved the best option if its accessible. On 4/19/13, mujeeb rahman. mujeeb.vakka...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Friend, This was one of the most important mails which I have ever read regarding accesibility. Though some of the list members tried to solve the issues, none of them gave such a nice explanation! Eventhough you said it precisely, as others, I too request you to be specific in suggesting a wonderful model which can be updated in the future. Thanks for your time and look forward for your positive response. Kindest Regards, Mujeeb Rahman On 4/19/13, S R Mittal srmit...@gmail.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Mobile.accessindia [mailto:mobile.accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of prateek aggarwal Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 6:01 PM To: mobile.accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: [Mobile.AI] which phone should you buy? 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
Re: [Mobile.AI] which phone should you buy?
Hi, unfortunately jury can't be out on any definitive answer. But from my personal experience, I can say that I have found the qwerty phone to be the best in terms of speed and access. There are few people who used the traditional numeric keyboard and could never be comfortable with a qwerty. But for me the switch was a breeze and I could enter text much faster. touch screen can never match the speeds we can achieve with the physical qwerty keyboard if there is not any revolutionary change from the current accessibility and text entry. I would put my bet on an android with a physical keyboard. As far as your first question is concerned, obviously in the beginning you have to spend a lot of time on the device. Secondly, the phones manufactured by the Indian companies are not a match to samsung phones in terms of touch screen sensetivity. I was very happy with my Karbon in the beginning but with the passage of time, I have noticed a lag in touch sensetivity and also other problems like non-responsiveness of the keypad lock are cropping up. On ther other hand my old samsung is still working like a charm after 2 and half years of rigorous use. the touch wiz UI of samsung does hamper accessibility partly but it is still worth considering. another observation I would like to make about certain models of samsung like the Grand Duos. I tried two handsets but accessibiity could not start despite repeated attempts. So you need to check at the counter itself whether a phone would be worth buying. This goes with any phone. Because of the open nature of android, Handsets from different manufacturers do not behave similarly. On 19/04/2013, ishita kapoor ishitakapoor...@gmail.com wrote: what does mean by extra time sir? Is it for initial period or we have to spare extra time always? You are right we dont have many touch and type devices in android. I just wanted to know is it possible to work with only touch phone after lots of practice? If yes then do we have any accessible and tested budget phone? have found few android phones which cost not more then 1. But the problem is i am not enough briliant to test accessibility. So i along with few friends have requested list members to try and test some devices on behalf of us. On 4/19/13, Aaruni Sharma aruni...@gmail.com wrote: I think the choice is quite simple. if you just want a phone with accessibility of calls, sms and contacts, you may either go for nokia which is unfortunately a dying breed, or better still you may go for blackberry which is very much alive and in the race. but if you are willing to experiment and be patient and can give some extra time for your mobile device, android is the right choice. if you can have a touch and type phone with good specs, you will have the best of both worlds. no doubt that android and apple have the maximum number of apps which are accessible. But unfortunately qwerrty phones are not very readily available in india and the one that is available is samsung chat 5330 which doesn't have great specs but may just be enough to buy at a affordable price. On 19/04/2013, mujeeb rahman. mujeeb.vakka...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Friend, This was one of the most important mails which I have ever read regarding accesibility. Though some of the list members tried to solve the issues, none of them gave such a nice explanation! Eventhough you said it precisely, as others, I too request you to be specific in suggesting a wonderful model which can be updated in the future. Thanks for your time and look forward for your positive response. Kindest Regards, Mujeeb Rahman On 4/19/13, S R Mittal srmit...@gmail.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Mobile.accessindia [mailto:mobile.accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of prateek aggarwal Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 6:01 PM To: mobile.accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: [Mobile.AI] which phone should you buy? 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
Re: [Mobile.AI] which phone should you buy?
Hey Prateek, What a fantastic explanation! Thank You. With Regards. Dinesh Thole. 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
Re: [Mobile.AI] which phone should you buy?
Does the latest Android run on Samsung Chat? As I understand, it has a physical qwerty keypad, and hence if it could run the latest version of Android, we could have the best Android accessibility features, and the keypad would take away a lot of our troubles with entering rather than only consuming content. Regards, On 4/19/13, DINESH THOLE dineshth...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Prateek, What a fantastic explanation! Thank You. With Regards. Dinesh Thole. 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
Re: [Mobile.AI] which phone to buy
Hello, you said that you are using both qwerty keyboard and touch screen. but this phone is of which company, I mean which make. Professor Shyam M. Sayanekar Telephone: 0251-2438457 Mobile: +91 9920410788 Skype ID- sayanekar - Original Message - From: Paresh Satra pareshsatr...@gmail.com To: mobile.accessindia mobile.accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 9:22 PM Subject: [Mobile.AI] which phone to buy high friends android and I OS are 2 most accessable OS right now apple phone r expensive but quality and after sales service is very exelent. in android we have many opsens as prise starts from 6k to 45k. samsung and sony are to most brands which have full accessibility features of talkback in built. as per me dont go with so called indian or chinese brands as most dont have talk back in built and also have many common features missing. after sales service is also questionable good companies android phone starts from 7k with android 4.0I C S and 8k for 4.1JB i am using android for last 1 year with both qwerty and touch and accessibility of both is ok. for any query write to me or call me i will be happy to help success also hurts,when you dont have a loved one to wish you. failer also looks beautiful,when you have a loved one to support you. paresh 99 87 27 17 17,98 1904 55 38 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
Re: [Mobile.AI] which phone should you buy?
hello, so far we have been discussing the various models from the angle of several aspects like considering cpu, ram, touch screen size, camera resolution, processor speed etc. but one thing on which i would like to have some review on to choose these models is sensors. while having look at the infinite models available in the market for android platform and considering its neumerous features, i get confused several time in understanding the exact functions of sensors associated with it. while looking at the features of these models, i come across the terminologies of sensors such as acceleration, geomagnetic field strengt, field strength, angular change, virtual sensors or synthetic sensors, The linear acceleration sensor and gravity sensors. Few Android-powered devices have every type of sensor. For example, most handset devices and tablets have an accelerometer and a magnetometer, but fewer devices have barometers or thermometers. as i understand that sensors implies Any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner. so i consider it pressure as our prime function in using tap method over the touch screen. so in the given situation, i would like to know that does selection of sensors signifies the extent of accessibility for visually impaired? if so, what would be the best option to choose the sensor type? if this does not affect the accessibility to use talk back or any accessible app then what is its functionality? experts please throw some light on this. if my question is foolish, then please ignore it as just raised to satisfy my curiocity. thanks, On 4/19/13, Mahesh S. Panicker maheshspanic...@gmail.com wrote: Does the latest Android run on Samsung Chat? As I understand, it has a physical qwerty keypad, and hence if it could run the latest version of Android, we could have the best Android accessibility features, and the keypad would take away a lot of our troubles with entering rather than only consuming content. Regards, On 4/19/13, DINESH THOLE dineshth...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Prateek, What a fantastic explanation! Thank You. With Regards. Dinesh Thole. 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
Re: [Mobile.AI] which phone should you buy?
Hi, Accelerometer allows the phone to detect movement. Using this type of sensors apps create features like shake to read the time, flip the phone to turn off ringing, shake to start reading text etc. Proximity sensor is used to detect the closeness of the face from the phone and is used to turn off touch on the screen when phone is held close to the face. barometers or thermometers if present will give you better information about temperature in your environment. This information can also be obtained without these sensors from the nearest weather station using the network. So, in general sensors build additional functionality in the phone and are desirable. They are not essential for accessibility but the additional functionality can enhance usability. Prashant -Original Message- From: Mobile.accessindia [mailto:mobile.accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of mukesh jain Sent: 19 April 2013 23:25 To: Dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones and Tabs. Subject: Re: [Mobile.AI] which phone should you buy? hello, so far we have been discussing the various models from the angle of several aspects like considering cpu, ram, touch screen size, camera resolution, processor speed etc. but one thing on which i would like to have some review on to choose these models is sensors. while having look at the infinite models available in the market for android platform and considering its neumerous features, i get confused several time in understanding the exact functions of sensors associated with it. while looking at the features of these models, i come across the terminologies of sensors such as acceleration, geomagnetic field strengt, field strength, angular change, virtual sensors or synthetic sensors, The linear acceleration sensor and gravity sensors. Few Android-powered devices have every type of sensor. For example, most handset devices and tablets have an accelerometer and a magnetometer, but fewer devices have barometers or thermometers. as i understand that sensors implies Any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner. so i consider it pressure as our prime function in using tap method over the touch screen. so in the given situation, i would like to know that does selection of sensors signifies the extent of accessibility for visually impaired? if so, what would be the best option to choose the sensor type? if this does not affect the accessibility to use talk back or any accessible app then what is its functionality? experts please throw some light on this. if my question is foolish, then please ignore it as just raised to satisfy my curiocity. thanks, On 4/19/13, Mahesh S. Panicker maheshspanic...@gmail.com wrote: Does the latest Android run on Samsung Chat? As I understand, it has a physical qwerty keypad, and hence if it could run the latest version of Android, we could have the best Android accessibility features, and the keypad would take away a lot of our troubles with entering rather than only consuming content. Regards, On 4/19/13, DINESH THOLE dineshth...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Prateek, What a fantastic explanation! Thank You. With Regards. Dinesh Thole. 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
