Before the iphone, I used to have two nochia phones with a specially installed screen reader on them. This made them pretty accessible. But The iphone is much better. I wouldn't go back, I was just saying that I wished that you could change the batteries as easily as you could with them. I never ever ever want to go back to to texting using a phone key bad, it was just terrible, lol.
> On Oct 14, 2022, at 1:18 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > And I don't miss the days when I dropped my old flip phone or whatever I had > at the time and phone, battery cover, battery and all came apart and were > skittering down the street in different directions. > I also remember buying an extra battery for some phone I had back then and > paying $69 or $79 for just a second battery which of course was not a Lithium > battery so it would develop a memory after a year or two. > Now you go to Apple and for $49 they put in a new battery, doesn't sound very > complicated to me and if I were at 80% battery capacity and were planning to > keep my iPhone 8 for at least another year I would do it in a heartbeat. > Of course you can always go back to a non-smartphone, pretty sure you can > still get a flip phone, but then of course you can say good bye to accessible > texting, contacts, GPS navigation, reading books on your phone, doing some > quick OCR of some piece of mail lying on your desk, checking the weather, > your bank balance and I could continue for several more lines listing things > I do with my smartphone. Is an iPhone expensive? Yes, no doubt, but what > about the $2,000 Canadian I spend on the HPPDA with MobileGeo back in 2005 or > 2006 which was the first truly portable and accessible GPS. It had this funny > overlay with the buttons so the touch screen of the PDA was pressed in the > right places and one of the things I remember the most is how often I had to > stop walking and reboot the thing because it wasn't working. > Then there was the $500 for my Booksense and later when I had my first > Windows 5.1 smartphone I had to buy MobileSpeak for $300 and MobileGeo for > $900 to have a screenreader and GPS. I used to buy these little HTC > smartphones which had the full keyboard with buttons and they were around > $400 so add this up, $400 + $300 for the screenreader and $900 for the GPS > and you now just spend $1,600 for an accessible smartphone with GPS. I could > now go to an Apple Store and buy an iPhone SE 2022 for $579 Canadian and > while this is Apple's "lowest-end" iPhone, it is still 5 times more stable > and reliable and I can do 10 times as much with it. > It's easy to forget what we had or did not have even 15 years ago and how far > this technology has come and what Apple's move to making these devices > accessible out of the box has done for accessibility in general. It's all too > easy to complain about new bugs when a new version of iOS comes out and about > the lack of accessibility in some apps, but let's face it, we do have it > pretty good these days. Yes, I know Apple did not develop Voiceover on the > Mac and all iOS devices, watches and Apple TV's out of pure goodness and all > that, but they started the ball rolling in a direction nobody thought it > could go before and to a large degree it is because of that why Android > accessibility is what it is now, why Microsoft is putting a lot of effort > into making Narrator a better experience and why just about every large > company nowadays has some sort of accessibility department. > > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > Michael Irons > Sent: Friday, October 14, 2022 9:18 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: How to replace an iphone's battery. > > I like the non-smart phones where you could replace the battery yourself. > Unfortunately a lot of things on the non-smart phones were not accessible to > me. That is why I switched over to the iPhone. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Oct 14, 2022, at 11:01 AM, Barbara Stahl <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Wow, That's crazy. I definitely won't be trying to replace it myself. Why > does it have to be so complicated. It makes me a bit nostalgic for my > non-smart phones where you could just pop open the back and easily replace > the battery. > Thank you all so much for the info. > Hopefully they will still have iphone 8 batteries when I'm ready to replace > mine. The battery health says its running at 80 percent which still gives me > several hours of use before it runs down. I hope to get a bit more milage > out of my phone before upgrading, because these devices are crazy expensive > lol. > > > On Oct 14, 2022, at 11:23 AM, Jonathan Cohn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, there is a self replacement program for iPhone batteries, but if my > memory serves me correctly, you get about 100 pounds (weight not UK Currency) > of tools that are required to do it as a loan. > There was a lot of press about this about 6 months ago. > > Best wishes, > > Jonathan Cohn > > > > > On Oct 14, 2022, at 9:55 AM, Barbara Stahl <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi! > So in the battery health thread, some people discussed getting a new iphone > battery. So I was wondering, how do you change an iphone's battery? 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