I found some helpful tips by viewing youtube videos. In fact, if you use iPhone voiceover as your search, you'll find tons of great videos which do not requ ire vision to learn from their messages. They range from basic, getting started videos to more advanced tips. If you do add a blue tooth keyboard, there's an excellent video on using the BT keyboard with IOS. HTH Pete
Sent from my iPad On Jun 3, 2012, at 9:23 AM, "Raul A. Gallegos" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Rebecca, and nice to see you on here. I've labeled my answers so they will > be obvious as to which questions I'm answering. > > 1. If you get your phone from the phone store, they should have no problems > in configuring it initially. I use AT&T and just got the phone from their > store. The guy transferred what I needed, which wasn't much, because I don't > keep my contacts in the sim card, but he did get things activated and he > enabled Voice Over for me when I saw that pressing Home 3 times didn't > activate it. However if you order it from the web and have it mailed to you, > it's not too difficult getting it set up. You will use iTunes to do it and > it's pretty easy. In most cases when you get it, you will want to power it > on, connect it to AC power and let it charge for a bit. You can then press > the home button to unlock it and press Home 3 times in row to see if Voice > Over comes on. If it does, great, if it doesn't, not to worry since you can > do that from iTunes when you set it up. > > 2. I do have a Bluetooth keyboard paired with my iPhone but since I use Siri > a lot, I don't use the keyboard as much as I used to with my 3GS. In cases > where I need to do a lot of typing and/or I don't want people hearing what I > dictate, I'll use the keyboard. > > 3. There are a lot of resources to help you get going. I'm not sure about > podcasts, but I know they are out there and perhaps someone on list will give > that info. However you can also get the book which Anna and Dean wrote about > the iPhone, and it's available from National Braille Press. > > 4. I got the 64 GB model because I didn't want to worry about space. It > currently has about 40 gb free. So, had I gotten the 16 gb model, it would > have already been over-filled. I made the mistake of getting the 8gb model > with the 3GS because I didn't think I'd fill it up and have fun with apps, > games, and podcasts and audio books, but learned quickly that 8gb wasn't > enough for me. The smallest you can get now is 16gb, but my personal > recommendation would be 32 or 64 gb. > > Take care and hope this helps. > > -- > Raul A. Gallegos > Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - > Mark Twain > Home Page: http://raulgallegos.com > Twitter: https://twitter.com/rau47 > Facebook: http://facebook.com/rgallegos74 > > On 6/3/2012 3:31 AM, Rebecca Ilniski wrote: >> Hi all. I'm new to the group and have some questions. I'm going to be >> upgrading on 5/5/12. I have some questions and will post them here. >> 1. I have decided to get the iphone 4s and will be ordering that on >> Tuesday. First question did you get your i phone online or at the apple >> store? I can go to verizon and get it but wonder if they will be more >> helpful at apple and can they help with things like porting your number >> over from the old phone to the new? Did you order yours online or go to >> the store? if you ordered it directly from your cell provider can you >> set it up independently or did you have to go to the store to get help? >> 2. Do you use a bluetooth keyboard with yours or just the i phone? >> 3. What podcasts are out there for the iphone 4s? Is there a good >> resource for learning the gestures and using the flat screen? >> 4. How many gigs would you recommend? I don't plan to watch a lot of >> movies, download videos and mainly want to use my phone for calls, >> facebooking, and twitters? Maybe here or there a video but I don't plan >> to go overboard. I have wifi here at home and plan to use that. When I'm >> away is it easy to use your data plan if there aren't any wifi >> connections available especially if i"m on a bus or something? >> Thanks for answering all of my questions. I'm sure I will have more as I >> go along. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > 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/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. 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/viphone?hl=en.
