I've been using iPhones since my first one, the iPhone 4, years ago.
Recently, I was able to get the iPhone 6 and finally got everything from my
I5 transffered over to the new phone last night. I'm sure there must be a
way to do it but all my books I had downloaded from NLS did not transfer.
So, I'm solving the problem for now by reading through my previously
downloaded book list on the NLS website and downloading what I lost. I had
25 books on my phone but they were mostly books I was sampling and most
wouldn't have been read. On the other hand, everything else transferred
normally and a lost album, well, CD, I somehow deleted that is my favorite
CD, fortunately had gotten backed up to iCloud and I got it back. It is no
longer sold so you have to get it used, if you can find it, the CD I mean,
but getting it back automatically, instead of copying it from my computer to
the phone, made Christmas a little nicer in an early sense of the word,
haha. I'm interested to try it on my ham programs for call books and DX
prefixes now, too. The Alex voice is one of the best I've ever heard but
wasn't available for my I5 phone. It took me awhile to figure out how to
set the new voice up, however, but the voice quality is super. I got some
help setting up the finger print unlocking system and it works great. I
just got the KNFB reader and am looking forward to trying it out compared to
the I5 I had. The I6 camera will, of course, work with some vending
machines as a credit card now so that's cool. Unlocking the screen is
pretty neat by just lightly touching the home button and it takes just a
split second to recognize it, too. That's another level of security, at
least, but reading text files with the Alex voice over is really amazing to
me. I have some of the human quality voices for my computer but Alex seems
to be the best of all the ones I've tried. In setting up Apple Pay so you
can pay by the touch of a finger print, even from a vending machine, not to
mention all the other downloadable stuff from iBooks and iTunes and the App
Store, really starts to be useful to a blind person as a portable device.
My oldest son lives in NC and works as a supervisor for Bank of America, and
travels a lot for the company. He uses his I5S to pay for Star Bucks by
flashing his iPhone, orders a cab at a certain day and time even before he
arrives by plane, and he can even pay for the plane ticket with his phone,
of course. I have tried various cases but since, around the house, I wear
heavier collarless T shirts with a pocket in the front left, I've found the
outerbox cases with a belt clip to work the best. That way I can clip the
phone inside the front shirt pocket and not worry about it falling out or
getting crunched when I clip the corner of table or chair or desk if I were
wearing the phone on my hip. Anyway, there is so much new stuff on the I6,
I'm glad I was able to trade up and plus you get 200 dollars worth of
additional product when you get the 5 dollar a month, pay as you go,
program. My bluetooth software that access my light weight hearing aids
really works well with the I6 and the latest hearing aids software I just
got this week has been almost completely rewritten and really works great
compared to earlier software versions. The I6 reads more things on the
screen, buttons and links for example, too, compared to the I5S I have been
using. I thought this might be interesting, especially with Echo Link and
remote ham stations accessible via cell phones these days.
Phil.
K0NX
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