Hi Simon,
Your first two points are Samsung specific, they are not functions of
Android. So you can't answer the phone with the volume up button, on
anything but Samsung.
All the best
Steve
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just a few points here.
1, I would say try to get a phone where you can use the up volume button to
answer calls.
it may have been an issue with that phone, but I used to have a sony android
phone, and could never get it to answer a call just with the touch screen,
no matter what I did, but don't have that with my samsung, now that I can
just use the volume up to answer a call.
2, samsung phones do have a 3 finger gesture, which seems to be like the
rotor in IOS, but don't know if other android phones have this.
and 3, one thing you may well gain from switching, is considerably easier
transferring of media, such as music, audiobooks, videos, etc. between phone
and pc, or pc and phone, as you don't have all of that messing about with
iTunes.
Simon
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Sent: Monday, October 28, 2019 3:07 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Switching to android
Hi Sarah,
I use both, so I am not a switcher, but I will answer your questions as
honestly as I can below:-
What apps won't I be able to get on android (I do use Soundscape and
Seeingai)?
You will get neither of those on Android unfortunately, they are iOS only.
Envision AI, or Eye-D Pro are good alternatives on Android, but there is
nothing quite like SoundScape on Android.
How different really are the gestures?
The main differences are flicks up and down instead of the rota, and Android
doesn't have multi-fingered gestures, so there is no doing anything with
more than one finger to operate Talkback. This also means that one down
side of Android for you may be that you don't get the magic tap, that is
double tap with two fingers for global play/pause or answering the phone
etc. The up side for me though is you can do everything with one hand.
What will I gain from switching?
It depends on what you're looking to gain. You may not gain anything by
switching, depending on how comfortable you are with iOS. Both are so
accessible now, that I'd say it's a lifestyle, rather than an accessibility
choice, unless you are a Braille user, in which case, iOS is undoubtedly
better. What you might gain with Android though, is more choice of speech
synthesisers.
How long does it take to learn the new eivnornment?
How long is a piece of string?? It really depends on how patient you are,
and how much inclination you have to learn it.
You could start here:-
https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/6151827?hl=en-GB
This will give you the scoop on Talkback.
http://www.inclusiveandroid.com
Will give you independent tutorials, not produced by Google.
I hope this helps.
All the best
Steve
