[access-uk] Re: sight village and a look at android.
- From: "Jackie Cairns" <jackie.cairnsplace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:49:20 +0100
Hi John
Many thanks for sharing your experience of yesterday with us. The
information is much appreciated and extremely informative. The comments on
Android posted here have been very enlightening, and has given me an insight
into the alternative to Apple.
I would hope that the quality of calling on say the Nexus would be better
than using the iPhone. I certainly don't like the sound quality on calls,
but perhaps this is just me!
Great stuff, thanks.
Kind Regards,
Jackie Cairns
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
John Gallagher
Sent: 18 July 2012 09:34
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] sight village and a look at android.
Hi all,
Yesterday I was at sight village on our chess stand. we showed how a blind
person plays chess and I demonstrated the shredder app on the i-phone. this
app is totally accessible to play chess and look at games from the chess
database.
I went over to see Steve Nut and looked at his android phone.
firstly on serotek there is an android podcast which I find very good
indeed.
I found it very difficult to hear any speech on any device at sight village
as it was too noisey.
I did like Steves nexus phone though and with jelly bean you can connect a
braille device.
Ed you are correct with all your questions with android. on blind cool tech
Mike areego has some great podcasts on android.
all this ice cream sandwitch and jelly bean are updates to the os.
Steves phone was like the iphone and I could get about on the screen o.k.
our difficulty is when you get a phone it is getting it to talk from out of
the box.
I understand with jelly bean you can circle two fingers round on the screen
to augment the accessability.
the phones are not as expensive as the iphone but different phones and
carriers may not have the latest update.
I may be wrong but the new samsung s iii has not got jelly bean.
all this is very new and is moving at the rate of notts and is difficult for
sighted people to keep up with never mind us.
the gps is better on the android phone as the google maps work faster and
seem more accessible.
of course it would be nice to try things out but this may not be possible.
the new product from sight and sound was shown yesterday but for three
hundred pouunds then £29 per app is expensive when if you take the time to
learn the phone better apps are out there which we can use.
I am looking for a second phone to my iphone and I am not sure what to go
for.
if you go for a tablet how can you have gps you cannot so I will go for a
phone.
I hope this is some help to some of you and if sendero bring out there gps
software for the iphone or android that will be a must for me.
cheers then.
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