Hey Phil,

I know a guy in the Twin Cities who got this Verizon phone.  But, I thought 
his came with Talks pre-installed on it so no need to buy an additional 
screen reader?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 7:46 PM
Subject: Off Topice: speaking of cell phones


> My wife and I recently went to web phones through her discounted Verizon
> wireless services at the hospital where she works.  She got her phone, the
> HTC Ozone, for 29 dollars and the second one, mine, was free.  We had to 
> get
> full internet access, $30 per month per phone, which includes insurance 
> and
> all, if we bought the smart phones.  This, at the moment, seems to be the
> only current model of phone that Verizon has which works with the Mobile
> Speak screen reader.  We both use Mobile Speak for our screen reader at 
> $275
> per phone.  Sandy started out using the software screen reader called 
> TALKS
> for $90 but it crashed and hung up and screwed up so many times, we soon
> went to Mobile Speak instead.  I have been having a ball using it on the
> web, keeping track of appointments through a very sophisticated calendar
> appointment book, sending and receiving text messages and emailing 
> directly
> with the phone.  Another cool feature of the phone is the ability to 
> record
> a digital message, attach it to a person's email address, and they can 
> hear
> you talking your email instead of having to type it on the qwerty 
> keyboard.
> The keyboard is good for me because they are raised buttons but hunt and
> peck typing is slow and it happens to be the only way you can enter
> messages.  So a message this long, for example, would probably push you
> right off the deep end and I don't have that much more hair to pull out.
> You can also use voice recognition by programming it, or mapping commands,
> to various keys using your own voice.  For example, once you map the date
> and time key commands using your voice, you simply press a key and say,
> "What is the time?" and it reads it off to you.  You could program "Phil
> Scovell" into the voice system and it would dial my number for you.  so it
> is quite amazingly versatile.  Mobile Speak, the screen reader, works on
> dozens and dozens of phones, however, so there's no problem there.  I've 
> had
> very few problems with the software locking up and when it has happened,
> I've been doing something I shouldn't have been fiddling with; like 
> shutting
> the entire speech system down by accidentally trying out what I thought 
> was
> a feature to make the phone vibrate.  Instead, it was a profile which 
> turned
> the phone into a phone for sighted people.  Dad gum if them there sighted
> folks don't get mixed up with everything a blind feller tries to do, haha.
> Anyhow, I know this is off topic but I figure it is worth mentioning on 
> this
> type of a list.
>
> Phil.
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