[access-uk] Re: Mibile Phones and Low Vision
- From: "Justin R" <mypc128@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 16:56:39 +0100
Hi Brendan,
like Andrew I went down the voice route on mobile phones when i got the
n-gage myself. I was trying, initially, to find a phone with a larger font
display where, even close to hte phone i could at least see enough to
compose a short text message or at least see who i was phoning. I didn't go
to many shops do do this but the ones I did were not very helpful. Car
phone warehouse only showed me the different types of phones without putting
a sim card in just to see the display!!! I did ask if they could but, no,
they weren't gonna demostrate the phone's display to me. Phones4U were a
bit better but, they only had the n-gage in stock from the list of phones
compatable with talx and mobile accessibility. i looked at the n-gage but,
although the screen is bright, so I've been told, lol. i can see it's quite
bright but, the way others have remarked on it, especially a v.i. friend of
mine from Guernsey. Seems as though the phone's screen is especially
bright. point is though, i couldn't adjust font sizes on it and, i couldn't
see the screen for navigation at all. So, i had to have talx so i could
work the phone without using the magnifier.
In my experience, it's always been the old nokia phones, some of them, that
do have displays that i could get by on seeing close up. HOwever, I get the
impression that newer nokia phones don't have the large-ish fonts anymore,
due to the fact they put som much on screen now.
I must say, for me, it depends on many factors. I can't say black and white
or colour displays make much difference to me. whether i could use a phone
with/without talx is all down to chance I'm afraid.
I forget what phone one of my other v.i. friends have. his is a samsung
D-700? something like that and the display is amazing! i could see that
well fine.
Sorry, i haven't been more help though.
Justin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brendan Magill" <brendan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 2:43 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Mibile Phones and Low Vision
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Thanks for your comments. I have found the Samsung D410 at a
> considerably reduced price, but still a bit on the high side. I'm going
> to keep looking and see what other options I can come up with, as I
> don't like having to make a choice from one. It really is amazing that
> those of us with some useful vision are thus ignored.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brendan.
>
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