[infoshare] my experience with the Samsung Gusto
- From: Rachel <rachel720@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: infoshare@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:39:19 -0400
Hi, everyone.
I just went to a Verizon store to see what the Gusto was like, and I'm
not quite sure what to think. Luckily I was able to work with a guy who
spoke English and seemed fairly sharp. He was able to turn on Digit
Readout, or whatever it's called that speaks the numbers as you dial;
and it appears that the Gusto will read many layers down in the menus.
The problem is that it wouldn't read anything, or so it seemed to the
guy, that didn't have a number in front of it. I'm assuming the numbers
mean that you're still in a submenu. For example, we went into the
Bluetooth set-up, but it wouldn't read Add a New Device, or whatever it
said. It may be possible, depending on what you're doing, to memorize
the options that are shown on the screen, but clearly this isn't so
good. The guy also couldn't seem to make the phone read the letters as
you typed in a text message. He seemed to think that the phone would
read a new text message; but even when we turned on Digit Readout,
surprisingly to me, it wouldn't read the letters as you typed a text
message.
Clearly, since the guy was unfamiliar with the phone, there may be other
options he couldn't find that would make the phone more accessible. I
was actually hoping to be able to use this phone's Bluetooth capability
to connect to my BrailleNote, with the idea of being able to access the
Internet wherever I am. But now that I think about it, since the Apex
doesn't have an internal modem, even if I could pair the two devices, I
probably couldn't dial into the Internet anyway.
If anyone has any ideas as to how to make this phone accessible -
something we didn't discover today - feel free to let me know, as the
guy gave me his work schedule for the next two weeks in case I want to
come back and play some more with the phone.
Hope my experience will help someone.
Rachel
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