Steve,

That's true now.  Talks comes with that phone.

Phil.
K0NX



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 7:11 AM
Subject: Re: Off Topice: speaking of cell phones


> 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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