Hi. I'm going to get a new Galaxy tablet on Friday, when I get paid.
If you, like me, have exclusively used Apple phones and tablets, I'll warn you it's a bit different than what I was used to. Talk Back is standard with the OS, but here's where things are different. First, Don't assume a lot of the accessibility features are on the Android. I was getting very frustrated with Samsung, and the first three people I talked to either asked me to run an app that would let them do things on the Galaxy 7 I've have leant to me, or if I had a sighted person that could help me. I'm sure I could find a neighbor to help, but I'm proud to say that with some calls to whatever I have have been good enough to get me going. I feel bad about how I treated those folks, because I've done what they do, and it can be pretty stressful for them. I did try once again, and got a woman who reminded me about how to get to the apps screen. The problem was I was thinking of how Apple does things, rather than understand Android's philosophy. As an example, Apple has things like Siri installed, so you can start using that right away. Android, on the other hand, doesn't have a speech to text app on it out of the box, so you have to go to the app play store to get Google Assist. Once I grasped that, all went well. This isn't a complaint, butit's a bit different. As for the gestures, So far, I prefer how Android does things. Instead of doing a three finger swipe, for example, it's a 2 finger movement. The Roter is much easier than Apple. I'm just starting to learn how things work, and I'm getting things pretty much the way I want. The only thing I haven't had any luck with is getting the tablet to respond to me when the screen is powered off. I'll learn how to do that sooner or later, I have a training session a week from tomorrow, so I'm looking forward to that. I'm also hoping that Droid, unlike Apple, when you put music on it and play a track, It doesn't create a small file for whatever it does. It's not visible to an Apple user, but if you transfer the tunes back to Windows, you get a lot of these small files, and lots of small stuff grows to pretty big fairly quickly. Just my experiences so far. Have a blessed day and don't work too hard. Kevin and Shrimpy Lily the lover -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mike Arrigo Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2025 3:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Apple versus android I would agree with this, you can achieve the same results with both platforms, both platforms are accessible and have built in screen readers, so we have the same choices as sighted folks and that’s a good thing. > On Sep 28, 2025, at 2:24 PM, Carolyn Arnold <[email protected]> wrote: > > I had an android tablet for a while and like the Apple platform better. > Actually, probably the reason for that is that I have just gotten used to the > Apple platform, so do not want to learn something else, whenever I already > know something that works for me. My guess is that one is as good or as bad > as the other. > > Carolyn Arnold > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Barbara Stahl > Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2025 2:14 PM > To: Viphone <[email protected]> > Subject: Apple versus android > > So I have seen a comment in a few message threads now where people say that > somethings are easier to do in or on an android device as opposed to an Apple > device so I am curious what sort of things are easier to do an android as > opposed to Apple so far, I have found Apple pretty easy to use and very > intuitive so I am curious what do some of you think is easier with an android > device my only experience with an android type device is an Amazon fire > tablet, and I liked the Apple gestures much better. The only thing I really > liked about the fire tablet was that there was a virtual home button right on > the screen that you could always have access to. Sometimes. 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