Hi. Before making the switch, see if you can find another blind iPhone user who will show you some basic VO (VoiceOver) gestures. Take copious notes. Ask your wife to turn on VoiceOver and let you explore her device. Play with it a while so that you can get a feel for whether using a touchscreen with speech is right for you. I played with my coworker's phone for about an hour and was immediately sold on the possibilities. Next, grab an iPhone user guide from apple.com and head over to applevis.com to read about VO gestures, the IOS environment and the wide array of apps that may be useful to you. Hopefully by then you'll have whetted your appetite sufficiently to go out and make the purchase. If you do buy one, go over to National Braille Press and buy one of Ana Dresner's books , which will reduce the fear factor and ease the learning curve considerably. Ana's books may seem chatty to some, but her down-to-earth, conversational style really suited me just fine and helped me considerably. I could go on with more suggestions, but this oughta do you for now. Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Tom
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> On Oct 7, 2015, at 7:30 AM, David Russell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hello VICUG group,
> Terri Arnold's post about the MIT survey prompted my response to that,
> and post to you who use Android or iPhone or iPads.
>
> In the cell-phone world I am obsolete, using The Haven FlipPhone,
> about 4-years-old. It currently serves my purposes adequately.
> Our nearest stores are associated with Verizon. When my wife upgraded
> her iPhone several weeks ago, I went with her but could not figure out
> how to gesture the iPhone on display to do this, that, or the other
> thing...
> If I were to upgrade to a mobile device with internet capability,
> would an iPad be a better answer, as I understand they come with a
> laptop style keyboard? My Haven accepts voice commands but has at
> times been rather unreliable in doing so.
> How does one know whether to go with Android or Apple?
> I seldom text but use the phone more for conventional purposes.
> Perhaps reading, online radio, or participating here, Facebook or
> LinkedIn on the go would be my reasons for attaining a mobile device.
> Thanks in advance for the input offered.
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