Yesterday, Amazon announced their new phone, which they are calling the Fire Phone. I won't go into all of the details about the new product, as you can easily read more about the phone on tech sites such as Engadget, CNet, etc. To summarize, it is essentially running a modified version of android and, like the Kindle Fire tablets, has a variety of built-in apps which allows you to access amazon's various services such as Kindle books, music, video, etc. The question on my mind is how accessible is the phone? while we won't know for sure until it gets into the hands of visually impaired users, Amazon claims that it does, in fact, contain accessibility features. They have a separate accessibility page for the fire Phone at https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=s_dp_acc_feat?ie=UTF8&docId=1002658171 After going through the list of features, it is a similar, if not identical list to the one for the Kindle Fire tablets. While I have gotten good use out of my Kindle Keyboard, most of you know that I am now a dedicated Iphone user. I'm thrilled with Apple's commitment to accessibility, as well as with all of the cool apps to make a blind person's life more manageable. and I just think I'd be disappointed going from an iPhone to a Fire Phone and so, for the time being, I'm sticking with Apple. Still, it's nice to know we may yet have another choice in the arena of accessible phones. -- David Goldfield Visit my public LinkedIn profile at https://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-goldfield/12/929/573 Visit my blog at http://davidgoldfield.wordpress.com Follow me on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/davidgoldfield