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
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