Hi Patrick, certainly open to talk with you or anyone else about my
experience so far with the Ipod Touch/same as the phone except it won't do
the phone thing/unless you have skype, and it doesn't have a camera, but
otherwise, with WYFi it does rather well. I'm still very much in a learning
mode, but willing to answer any questions I can, by email or phone. dd.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Gormley" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: Is the iPhone accessible?: was RE: EchoLink is available for
the iPhone, and this brings up a question on my part.
> the iphone is accessible. Not all the third party apps are you'll just
> have
> to try them one at a time and find out. 730 pat kk3f
>
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> From: "Danny Dyer" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 11:15 PM
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Is the iPhone accessible?: was RE: EchoLink is available for
> the iPhone, and this brings up a question on my part.
>
>> and the 32Gig, Ipod touch, with latest firmware, 3.whatever/soon to be
>> upgraded to 4.0 does most if not all that the IPhone does, with A Wi
>> Fi Connection-the IPhone also has Wi Fi capability that's independent
>> of its' phone network.
>> There's a learning curve, but I've had mine a week, and it's way more
>> accessible than you might think. Different but definitely learnable
>> and useable. Danny
>>
>> On 5/10/10, Kevin Minor <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> Hi Blake.
>>>
>>> The accessibility of the iPhone depends on how comfortable you are with
>>> doing things differently. It uses a touch screen, which, at the
>>> surface,
>>> seems pretty daunting. Apple, however, has implemented something called
>>> VoiceOver right into the operating system, so you don't have to buy any
>>> fancy screen reading software for it. For a sighted user, all they do
>>> is
>>> look at the screen, touch the spot that they want to activate, and the
>>> iPhone does what the user wants. VoiceOver does things a little
>>> differently. You can either move your finger on the screen over the
>>> thing
>>> you want to activate, or you can do what is known as a left or right
>>> flick,
>>> which is like flicking a bug off the screen of the iPhone, and it
>>> announces
>>> the link you have focus on. If you have your finger on the item, you
>>> can
>>> tap another portion of the screen to activate it, or you can remove your
>>> finger from the screen and do what is known as a double tap, which means
>>> you
>>> quickly tap the screen twice. You don't have to do this hard on the
>>> screen.
>>> It is, after all, a touch screen.
>>>
>>> I personally find the iPhone quite useable. So far, I've mainly used it
>>> to
>>> listen to major league games, as well as listen to music I've loaded
>>> onto
>>> it. I've tuned into internet stations, and they sound great, and what
>>> makes
>>> it nice is you're not stuck in one spot to hear the audio from sites.
>>> If
>>> you have a 3G or EDGE connection, you're good to go. It's a bit tricky
>>> to
>>> enter text into the iPhone, but I'm slowly but surely mastering that,
>>> and
>>> I
>>> also would appreciate the app that lets you input text using CW.
>>>
>>> Oh yeah. Did I mention that you can use the iPhone as a phone as well?
>>> <grin>
>>>
>>> Hope this all makes sense. For $300 U.S., the iPhone, in my opinion, is
>>> a
>>> nice piece of equipment.
>>>
>>> Have a good day, and don't work too hard.
>>>
>>> Kevin Minor, Lexington, KY
>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>
>>
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