Two quick thoughts, first, you don't need a tactile overlay to use the 
touch screen. I have a tactile overlay from SpeedDots, but plenty of 
blind people use their iPhone without a tactile overlay. When I borrow 
my wife's iPhone, which doesn't have a tactile overlay, I can use it 
just fine.

I would agree that multitasking on the iPhone is not terrible. You don't 
have as much memory and processing power as you do on a laptop or 
desktop size, so you won't have as much room to multitask. I also think 
the iPhone could handle memory usage and multitasking a bit better, but 
that's true of any OS.

On 01/23/2014 10:12 PM, Tom Lange wrote:
> Hi,
> I don't know if I'd go so far as to say that multi-tasking is terrible
> on IOS devices.  Using the app switcher, I switch between tasks on my
> iPhone all the time and it's not uncommon for me to have several apps
> running at any given moment.  If the phone gets bogged down I'll go into
> the app switcher and clear out things that I can do without and go about
> my business.  If it really gets squirrely I'll just reboot, but with my
> 5S, I rarely have to do that.
>
> Tom
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "harry brown" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 11:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Smart Phones
>
>
>> Hi all,
>> A couple things to say about the IPhone.
>> 1. There's 2 ways to access it:
>> A. the bluetooth keyboard, which works tremendously.
>> B. The dots that the folks at the AT guys sell.
>> These overlays are dots that you can put on the IPhone, and each dot
>> is an icon on the screen.
>> If I were getting a smart phone, I'd get the IPhone, either with the
>> dots on it, or, I'd get the IPhone, and use the bluetooth keyboard.
>> If you get one, let everybody know what you think of that phone.
>> There's so much you can do on it.
>> I have thought about getting one.  I wanted to make the IPhone my only
>> computer, however, folks have told me that now is not the time to do
>> that, because of the fact that task switching is terrible on I
>> devices. Task switching means multitasking. That's the nice thing
>> about regular laptops, at least you can go between different tasks
>> easily, by jumping between different windows.
>> Harry
>> On 1/23/2014 9:05 AM, Jeff Kenyon wrote:
>>> I have been doing a very positive tirade about the iPhone. A lot of
>>> people have those and once you get used to the touchscreen if you're
>>> like me you won't be able put it down.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>> On Jan 23, 2014, at 8:37 AM, Melita Waters <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Last week my brother came to visit.  He is a self-proclaimed
>>>> Smart-Phone/bluetooth devotee.
>>>>
>>>> The things he was doing with it as far as hands-free access to what
>>>> seemed like everything was most attractive.
>>>>
>>>> What smart phone are most of us having the most success with?  Is
>>>> anyone also using with success the little bluetooth gadget for the
>>>> hands-free access?  Does the bluetooth keyboard make the operation
>>>> of the phone easier?  Does easier mean useable at all?  Is the
>>>> iPhone the only one that works for us, his is a Samsung?  Do all the
>>>> smart phones work pretty much the same way?
>>>>
>>>> I am a babe-in-the-woods when it comes to using accessible computer
>>>> type stuff.
>>>>
>>>> I have the book put out by NBP for the IPhone, the one written by
>>>> Dressner and Martineau, and have read it, but I don't want to spend
>>>> lots of money and make a mistake.
>>>>
>>>> Any comments and advice will be most appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Melita W
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Melita Waters
>>>> President
>>>> Easy to Read Documents
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>>>>
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