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Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 26 Nov 2014 18:19:21 -0700
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I've been using iPhones since my first one, the iPhone 4, years ago. 
Recently, I was able to get the iPhone 6 and finally got everything from my 
I5 transffered over to the new phone last night.  I'm sure there must be a 
way to do it but all my books I had downloaded from NLS did not transfer. 
So, I'm solving the problem for now by reading through my previously 
downloaded book list on the NLS website and downloading what I lost.  I had 
25 books on my phone but they were mostly books I was sampling and most 
wouldn't have been read.  On the other hand, everything else transferred 
normally and a lost album, well, CD, I somehow deleted that is my favorite 
CD, fortunately had gotten backed up to iCloud and I got it back.  It is no 
longer sold so you have to get it used, if you can find it, the CD I mean, 
but getting it back automatically, instead of copying it from my computer to 
the phone, made Christmas a little nicer in an early sense of the word, 
haha.  I'm interested to try it on my ham programs for call books and DX 
prefixes now, too.  The Alex voice is one of the best I've ever heard but 
wasn't available for my I5 phone.  It took me awhile to figure out how to 
set the new voice up, however, but the voice quality is super.  I got some 
help setting up the finger print unlocking system and it works great.  I 
just got the KNFB reader and am looking forward to trying it out compared to 
the I5 I had.  The I6 camera will, of course, work with some vending 
machines as a credit card now so that's cool.  Unlocking the screen is 
pretty neat by just lightly touching the home button and it takes just a 
split second to recognize it, too.  That's another level of security, at 
least, but reading text files with the Alex voice over is really amazing to 
me.  I have some of the human quality voices for my computer but Alex seems 
to be the best of all the ones I've tried.  In setting up Apple Pay so you 
can pay by the touch of a finger print, even from a vending machine, not to 
mention all the other downloadable stuff from iBooks and iTunes and the App 
Store, really starts to be useful to a blind person as a portable device. 
My oldest son lives in NC and works as a supervisor for Bank of America, and 
travels a lot for the company.  He uses his I5S to pay for Star Bucks by 
flashing his iPhone, orders a cab at a certain day and time even before he 
arrives by plane, and he can even pay for the plane ticket with his phone, 
of course.  I have tried various cases but since, around the house, I wear 
heavier collarless  T shirts with a pocket in the front left, I've found the 
outerbox cases with a belt clip to work the best.  That way I can clip the 
phone inside the front shirt pocket and not worry about it falling out or 
getting crunched when I clip the corner of table or chair or desk if I were 
wearing the phone on my hip.  Anyway, there is so much new stuff on the I6, 
I'm glad I was able to trade up and plus you get 200 dollars worth of 
additional product when you get the 5 dollar a month, pay as you go, 
program.  My bluetooth software that access my light weight hearing aids 
really works well with the I6 and the latest hearing aids software I just 
got this week has been almost completely rewritten and really works great 
compared to earlier software versions.  The I6 reads more things on the 
screen, buttons and links for example, too, compared to the I5S I have been 
using.  I thought this might be interesting, especially with Echo Link and 
remote ham stations accessible via cell phones these days.

Phil.
K0NX

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