I am the same way with my iphone and now couldn't do without it. Just got a
bluetooth keyboard which makes my lengthy texts a little more
understandable. Have heard that those on androyds had less success with
their speech options though. Of course can get suri for either now, but dont
think androyd quite as smooth with speech; plus love the fact that with
iphone there is nothing you need to download in order to get it running
right out of the box. My wife had an adroyd and is sighted and had more
trouble than with iphone as well and after she switched to the 4s, finally I
was able to help her get the most out of her phone too. A lot easier with
the whole family having same phones. Fortunately many app makers work to
have their apps accessible on that phone as well. Not all of course but at
least most anything I use.
I still have a couple old nokia phones with speech on them and for someone
they would probably be great cause they have talks or moble speak on them,
but big difference in what you can do with them. Still wish had a phone with
buttons but can't slow down progress. Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Byrne" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 11:16 PM
Subject: Re: OT cell phone question
> John,
> I was sure that I never was going to learn to use that damned Iphone,
> but by now I am pretty comfortable with it. Hang in there and you will
> win!
> Pat, K9JAUAt 09:26 PM 11/21/2013, you wrote:
>>I have the home button and just now figured out how to set that to answer
>>calls and power to hang up. I'm at a 100% complete loss on how to do
>>anything else though. I have t-mobile. I guess this is like the galaxy s3
>>and s4 except more geared toward the entry level user. I hope with helping
>>my in-laws move all weekend to graduate to entry level user by the middle
>>of
>>next month. At least I can answer it now but still can't text or anything
>>else. As bad as my old phone was, I'm thinking upgrading was a mistake.
>>Maybe by next year I won't feel that way.
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "John J. Jacques" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 9:47 PM
>>Subject: Re: OT cell phone question
>>
>>
>> > Hi John, I'm not familiar with the phone you have, but if you could get
>> > a
>> > Galaxy S3, or an S4, they have a physical home button wich you can set
>> > to
>> > answer calls, wich makes it much easier. Most phones can be set to use
>> > the power button to hang up. If you are with Verizon, you can download
>> > Mobile Accessibility, for free wich makes things much easier for first
>> > time touch screen users. I used it when I had my Stratisphere, wich
>> > ran
>> > 2.3, wich was not as accessible, and it made the phone much easier to
>> > use. I was able to set my up volume button to answer calls and the
>> > power
>> > to hang up!
>> >
>> > 73 and hope this helps:
>> > John
>> >
>> > John Jacques
>> > Amateur Radio Station: KD8PC
>> > "Where Cat Is, Is Civilization!"
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