Hi Will if you know what you are doing there is a way to put jelly bean on the new samsung but you need sight to do it. if you put a search in google you can go to a page whare it is explained how to do it but for us it's impossible. someone with some sight to see the screen will be able to do it though. you have to put and re set the phone in to like a safe mode by holding down some buttons when re setting. it's very complicated and my real fear is if you do something and loose speech how the hell do you get it back. at least on the iphone if stuck I go in to itunes as we all know.At 09:52 18/07/2012, you wrote:
I find it odd that the newer samsung s3 has no jellybean OS yet an older out of date phone can get it no questions asked?On 18 Jul 2012, at 09:33, John Gallagher <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] > ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** and in the Subject line type > ** unsubscribe > ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the > ** immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] > ** or send a message, to > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq
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