VZW does offer a package with this phone with mobile speak 
preinstalled.  it is called the HTC ozone Talk.

Andy
At 06:11 AM 6/2/2010, you wrote:
>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.
> > [log in to unmask]
> > WWW.RedWhiteAndBlue.ORG