[access-uk] Re: sight village and a look at android.
- From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 22:25:24 +0100
Hi,
To hear about all things Android, listen to our podcast at
http://www.comproom.co.uk/ourplace or listen to That Android Show, at
http://www.thatandroid show.com. Shameless plug, I am on that one too, as a
cohost <Smile>.
All the best
Steve
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-----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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