Hi Phil;
You have had a lot better luck with that phone than I did.
In August of last year, I purchased that phone with Talks.  I had the  
worst luck in the world.
Talks was just being developed.  Then, the developer past away and,  
things were never the same between Verizon and me.
I went with the iPhone and never looked back.

73 de Anthony w2ajv



Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 1, 2010, at 7:46 PM, Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]>  
wrote:

> 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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