Personally, I prefer keyboards and real physical buttons.  A lot 
faster dialing with real buttons than touchscreen, at least for 
me.--Matt, n1ibb.

At 11:03 PM 1/10/2015, you wrote:
>What you and many other blind people don't realizde is that the touch
>screen isn't the answer for us all.  You may love it and be very good at
>it, but that does not mean it is great for all of us.  It has always
>amazed me, and I see this particularly among the blind, something like,
>if I love it and use it and I think it is the best thing in the world,
>everyone else should think so and if we don't we're some how retarted.
>I'm just not comfortable with touch screens, give me a key board or
>buttons.
>73
>Butch
>WA0VJR
>Node 3148
>Wallace, ks.
>
>
>On Sat, 10 Jan 2015, Colin McDonald wrote:
>
> > well, I ain't going to change your mind, I've learne that after 10 years,
> > but the touch screen is allot easier and more user friendly than you might
> > think on the IPhone.
> > Especially if you use a tactile screen protecter for the first 
> while to help
> > you get used to the screen spacing.
> > It really depends on what you use your phone for and how much mobile
> > connectivity you need.  It took me a long time to give up my nokia's with
> > talks, but once I made the decision to accept the IPhone, it didn't take
> > long to get used to the touch screen interface and become very quick and
> > efficient with it...using things like Siri, dictate and so on the device
> > becomes exceedingly powerful.  It has it's faults and cons, but every smart
> > phone does regardless of touch screen or buttons.  I think the upside far
> > out weighs any downside or faults the phone may have including the learning
> > curve on the touch screen interface.
> > Believe me, I was firmly placed in the anti-IPhone camp as well a couple
> > years ago...then I made a mental decision to just do it because that is
> > where the accessibility is, and once I did it was allot more 
> pleasant than I
> > thought it would be.
> >
> > 73
> > Colin, V A6BKX
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Miller
> > Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 7:09 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: scanners?
> >
> > Touch screens are still something I hate. Not saying they're unusable by us
> > but I can't get the hang of the one on my android phone and I've 
> had it over
> > a year. I hope to avoid them on anything else as long as I 
> possibly can. I'd
> > never spend the money for an Iphone, I don't like mac anyway but the touch
> > screen is a major nonselling point to me.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 8:45 AM
> > Subject: Re: scanners?
> >
> >
> >> Yep, I agree totally.  Sad part is I think we're losing access these days
> >> when the technology is there to help if they would just use it.  I'm
> >> talking everything from internet pages to new appliances with touch
> >> screens.  And of course there are those who think just because they can
> >> use and love their i phones, that an i phone is the solution for everyone.
> >> grrrrrrr.
> >> 73
> >> Butch
> >> WA0VJR
> >> Node 3148
> >> Wallace, ks.
> >
> >