Personally I prefer the three-finger left and right gesture instead of the
rota because I have some arthritis in my thumbs and can't turn them as I
would like nowadays. Old age is creeping up on me! (smile.)
Kind regards,
Jackie Brown
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Hi June,
Most gestures work as you expect, so flicking left and right, double tapping
are all the same as on iOS.
Where they part company is the iOS rota is replaced by a three finger left
or right to select an item, then single flick up and down to move by that
item.
Also there are some angular gestures to get used to, such as up and right,
down and right, etc.
All the best
Steve
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That's very interesting, Yusuf. Thank you for your response. I have no
experience of Talkback, and had not heard of a Google phone. Perhaps, when
we are out of tier 3, I should try a few out. How similar is it to
Voiceover? I currently have a 6SE, and as a phone I am entirely happy with
it, and would be sorry to lose the functionality. I run my Hive system on
it, monitor my granddaughter while she is sleeping, and use many of the
other apps you mention. I had considered upgrading to the new generation SE
phone, but the latest IOS update has rattled the bars of my cage! It's not
the phone, but Apple that is pushing me away. Neither of my sons will
tolerate Apple phones, and both really value Samsung.
June
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Hi June, welcome to the list and I'd say as one member to another this is an
entirely appropriate issue for this forum.
I made the transition from an iPhone to a Google Pixel3 in early 2019. I
went for the Pixel because it is manufactured by Google and in trials I had
in shops and with other people's Android based phones I found that the more
additional software installed by manufacturers the less reliable Talkback
became. Talkback is the Android equivalent of Voice Over. Later in 2019 I
had the opportunity to have a play with a Samsun phone using Voice Assistant
(Samsung's alternative to Talkback). This just confirmed my experience.
I've recently upgraded to a Google Pixel 5 and remain happy with my choice
to leave iOS behind. In simple terms I am able to make and receive calls,
send and read messages, use WhatsApp, read emails, use the Audible App,
Google Chrome/Firefox, monitor my bank accounts using the App, use PayPal,
in-fact everything I did with my iPhone I can do with the Pixel.
There is a learning curve, as you'd imagine, when you first make the
transition, but with patience it is perfectly manageable. The one thing I
really missed was Seeing AI because of it's ability to do immediate
scanning, particularly useful for products, but now there's Google's LookOut
which does the same thing and works really well.
Just out of interest what iPhone do you currently have and have you
considered moving to a later version? The most recent SE version seems to
have gone down very well. I left IOS partly in order to remove iTunes (a
totally hateful program on Windows) and because I wanted to keep a
fingerprint sensor rather than be forced to use Face Recognition.
Yusuf
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June Horne
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Subject: [access-uk] android phone versus iphone
Good morning everyone. It's the first time I have posted to the group, so
please excuse me if my question isn't appropriate for this forum. I am
experiencing increasing problems with my iphone. As each update to the IOS
comes in, something else changes, and I feel I need to put in a bill for
system maintenance! Only joking, of course. But Apple do seem to be a law
unto themselves. I have seriously considered upgrading to an android phone,
but as I am totally dependent on Voiceover, I was wondering if anyone here
had any particular recommendations, or indeed suggestions about what to
avoid. Thanks for listening.
June
