If it is an accessible "phone" go with any nokia with talks with mobielspeak. If you want a scanning phone go with the KNFB reader (wich I own and love) or with an iPhone. And finally if you want a fully accessible smart phone usable a hundred percent by blind people, go with an iPhone. I don't like the phone feature being integrated on the device. I found it overkill. Just give me a great pda, with data connection (wifi 3g/4g) a great word processor, book search and reading capabilities, great voices and braille and a web browser and I am sold. Why you don't include blio while you are at it as well. But a phone? With something that big? Nop. and If some how they make it small enough, it will be unconfortable to type. I just know.
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Brandon Keith (Biggs)" <brandonboy13@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 8:45 PMTo: <kf4yni@xxxxxxxxx>; <yadosotomayor@xxxxxxxxxxx>; <snakeguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "icon list" <icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [icon-discuss] Re: The Braille plus as a cell phone.
I personally just want a phone that is meant for blind people, that is built by blind people and that is easy to use by blind people. I don't really care if it is bigger than a normal phone or if I need to have a little Bluetooth piece to talk with it, just having a fast talking, 100% speaking, not confusing phone will be worth a huge plus in getting me to buy it. I think it would be also kind of cool if it had an external camera that could take pictures of a piece of paper then scan it in. I would hate it to actually be a part of the unit as this would make it bigger, but actually having a small external camera would be amazing.A screen that attached with USB or Bluetooth would be amazing too.I personally don't care if the Orion is released in the winter, Just as long as it is the best PDA out there unquestionably with huge room for improvement. I'm really excited at the functions of the Orion that have already been said, having the same features as the Icon as well as some other functions... I just hope Levelstar can market the Orion a lot more heavily than they did with the Braille+ as I only find maybe 1 out of 100 people in the blind world who have even herd of it and only maybe 1 out of every 50 of those have even tried it. I'd suggest marketing to schools and TVIs as most TVIs are only aware of Humanware and Freedom Scientific...I'm excited to hear more about this amazing product! Thanks, Brandon Keith (Biggs) Check out MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/brandonkeithcom Also add me on facebook! brandonkeith http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=675097942 And for my resume go to: http://www.sfcasting.com/brandonkeith -------------------------------------------------- From: "Terrell Jones" <kf4yni@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 3:36 PMTo: <yadosotomayor@xxxxxxxxxxx>; <snakeguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "icon list" <icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: The braille plus as a cellphone.I don't think the orion with the braille display will be tat much bigger.----- Original Message ----- From: "Yadiel Sotomayor" <yadosotomayor@xxxxxxxxxxx>To: <snakeguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "icon list" <icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 5:29 PM Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: The braille plus as a cellphone.In my case, I am not that excited about the phone. In fact, I can do without it. I have a Nokia and I am going to get an iPhone when it is time to renue my contract. So phone I think is not a necessety. Also, looking at a braille plus, I would look a bit folish with that thing in my ear. The orion soundsthat it is going to be smaller, at least the one without braille. But theone with 18 cell display is going to be larger and we will look weird with something that big on our ears. But other than that, I am looking forward toit. -------------------------------------------------- From: "Roger Smith" <snakeguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 2:10 PM To: "icon list" <icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [icon-discuss] The braille plus as a cellphone.Hi,I guess we all have our own hopes and thoughts about what is best for thenew device, and my main concern is with the cellphone. My hope is thatthe phone will be unlocked so that the customer can choose his or her owncarrier in order to get the best plan at the best deal possible. Having said that, I have no idea if this is even conceivable on this hardware, but it would seem to me to make sense. Looking forward to all of the upcoming info about the product. Rp If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original senderonly. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message isrelated to LevelStar or APH then consider sending your message to icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Icon Discuss Mailing List icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx //www.freelists.org/list/icon-discussTo unsubscribe from the list send a blank message with unsubscribe in thesubject line to: icon-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To post to this list, send your message to: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxFor answers to the most frequently asked questions about Icon and Braille+, Visit the LevelStar and APH FAQ pages: Visit the LevelStar FAQ page at http://www.levelstar.com/support-faqs.php Visit the APH FAQ page at http://sun1.aph.org/webcast/brailleplus2/faq.htmlYadiel J. 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