My partner's android definitely has a proper little qwerty keyboard, I
promise; it lives in the same house with me lol.
A
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From: talks-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:talks-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Graham Page
Sent: 31 May 2011 09:08
To: talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [talks-uk] Re: buying a new phone
Far far from it.
Firstly, most android phones are touch screen phones. Some have a track
ball or arrow keys that you can use but the trend is more and more towards
touch phones.
There is a company called Code Factory that had created some accessible
programs and a screenreader to work on android phones. This is great and
the programs are accessible but the problem seems to be that there is no
accessibility built into the heart of Android. It is fair to say that
Android phones and IPhones will eventually both be very accessible but
these are all touch screen phones. We really do need an alternative with
a
t9 keypad.
Regards
Graham
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From: talks-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:talks-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Amie Slavin
Sent: 31 May 2011 08:40
To: talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [talks-uk] Re: buying a new phone
Sounds sensible. What about android though? That seems like maybe the
full
solution to everything, is it?
A
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From: talks-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:talks-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Neil Barnfather - TalkNav
Sent: 30 May 2011 22:31
To: talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [talks-uk] Re: buying a new phone
Paul,
firstly, :) grin, this is a Talks list, and as such, not really tasked
with
helping you choose between a Talks powered device and a none Talks device.
however, since this is a highly covered topic right now here's a view for
you.
The iPhone is a very good consumption product, that is to say, if you are
accessing info from it then it is excellent. however, if your objective is
to input into it, then it starts undoing at the scenes.
let me explain some more, the iPhone is very well adapted for our needs
when
you consider accessing apps, reading web pages, reading e-mail, reading
text
messages, checking the weather or listening to music / pod casts.
where it falls down is the reverse of this, i.e. you inputting data back
into it, in these instances it is slow, cumber sum and irritating.
this is not an exclusive issue to iPhone, but in fact almost any touch
only
device. so notably though since we're on the Apple cart, so to speak, iPad
and iPod Touch etc.
My advice would be this, consider your phone call and SMS text messaging
one
issue, and your other mobile needs another. a touch only device is never
going to be that great as a device for making and receiving calls and
typing
out SMS messages... its just not, and yes, sure some folk will say that
you
can cart about blue tooth keyboards etc, but its just adding complexity
and
weight to a solution, when something perfectly good without those issues
already exists.
Now for your music playing, podcast listening, possibly internet surfing,
depending on what you do online, i.e. surfing to read, or inputting to,
and
app usage, these are things that the iOS Apple devices do well.
My personal recommendation would be an iPod Touch, basically an iPhone
without the phone, you can install Skype etc onto it, making it into a
phone
should you wish to, but principally it is cheaper, no rental and will give
you all the advantages of this type of device... but will not compromise
your phone call / texting ability.
I hope that this helps in some way.
Regards,
Neil Barnfather
Talks List Administrator
Twitter @neilbarnfather
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On 30 May 2011, at 22:19, Paul Roberts wrote:
Hi all,
Whilst I am generally happy with my E51, which I have had since june 2009,
I
feel I would like to upgrade to something which I may find is easier to
navigate round the internet.
I either want something like an E71, whith it's very wel defined keyborad
or, I may be brave and go for an Apple Iphone.
regarding the latter, I was told by someone on Saturday night that I could
get one of these from a Vodafone store but is this the case as I wouldn't
have thought so.
I am on a contract and may visit the store tomorrow afternoon.
I did have a go with an Iphone on saturday night, although I feel I could
do
with more time to play with one, before deciding whether or not to buy
one.
Any thoughts and suggestions on the above would be most welcome.
Regards
paul.
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