Kevin,

It sounds like you've done a lot of work with that phone in a very short
time.  Did you need sighted assistance to do all that?  I'd like to set up
some shortcut keys, but I haven't been able to make enough sense of the
manual to do it.  I've ordered a braille manual, but it hasn't arrived
yet.  I hope it makes more sense than the commercial manual.

Steve

On Monday 1/6/03 11:43 Kevin Nathan wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I want first to thank all of you who answered my inquiry the other day on
>accessible cell phones.  Based on that information partly and also on cost
>of getting a new phone on the Verizon web site I ended up with the Motorola
>V-120.  It turns out this is a great choice.  No, like most phones, it's not
>totally accessible; but, it is much more than my old Kiosera.
>
>First, it has tonal alerts that help give you clues to what is going on for
>basic operations.  For example, when you turn it on, you hear a series of
>ascending tones and likewise a series of descending tones when you turn it
>off.  When you hit send, you hear two tones rising and when you hit end you
>hear two tones descending.
>
>Here's the best part.  This thing has voice recording features.  First, when
>you make a phone book entry, you are given the option of putting a voice tag
>with it.  You need help the first time to learn the sequences and perhaps a
>few times after if you are getting old like me but you can find the place in
>the book to make a new entry simply by arrowing down through your phone
>book.  If you have made the voice tags you can hear them read as you arrow
>up or down.  You can then press send to call that party.  Or, you can assign
>a rapid dial key to the first nine entries.  So, if I want to call my wife
>at work I simply press 2 until I hear a two tone confirmation at which time
>it is calling her.  While on the subject of voice notes, you can make them.
>You can record information you want to remember just with the press of a
>button on the side of the phone and then retrieve them at your leisure.  You
>can also record a call or part of it by pressing this button.  Imagine how
>nice this would be if someone is giving you a phone number or a confirmation
>number and you can just press the button and record it for later retrieval
>while you are riding in a car or on a bus.
>
>Finally, you can build short cuts to various things.  For example, I have
>menu plus 1 assigned to ring styles so I can choose vibrate in a meeting and
>then go back to ringing after it is over and I have menu plus 2 assigned to
>my voice notes.  You can also set up voice recognition for these shortcuts
>so all you have to say is the label you assigned to it and it will go there.
>
>All in all, while this isn't the most accessible phone there might be out
>there, it is certainly fun to use and has some blind friendly features.
>And, for $29.95 to upgrade to it, it's a good deal.  My xyl liked mine so
>much she went and got one too.  <GRIN>
>
>Take care all and very 73.
>
>Kevin, K7RX :)