2 brilliant people too and shuld receive an award for their contribution to
mobile phone access for the blind.s
----- Original Message -----
From: "Neil Barnfather - TalkNav" <for...@talknav.com>
To: "Talks Mailing List" <talks@talksusers.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Talks] status of symbian phones
firstly Stephen is correct, I was in attendance at Vision 2011 UK a few
weeks ago now, the director for development which encompassed
accessibility gave a talk, part of which focused on Symbian devices. I put
specific questions to him, mainly focusing on Symbian longevity and device
release status.
Nokia estimate selling 150,000,000 Symbian devices in the coming years,
all of which are Symbian ^3 , in other words capable of supporting Talks
and Mobile Speak.
They have committed to supporting Symbian until at least 2016, and there
is no guarantee at that stage they will shelve it. Nokia has not sold
Symbian so no idea where on earth you got that from, or where someone else
got it from.
with regards specifically to Talks, Talks was always a two man show, and
still is, so again, to the person who said it was down to one chap, wrong,
Torsten is sadly no longer with us, but the product has a new product
manager. keeping the count at two.
Regards,
Neil Barnfather
Talks List Administrator
Twitter @neilbarnfather
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On 6 Jul 2011, at 14:58, alex wallis wrote:
Hi list.
I am just wondering, what is the status of symbian phones now?
I know nokia has sold symbian off to some private company.
so does this mean that we are going to have to look at switching to
dreaded i phones, android phones, or those running windows mobile?
correct me if I am wrong, but I hear that accessibility is down hill on
windows due to the lack of accessibility hooks, and at least to my way of
thinking, android is still a bit new on the block, and I don't like the
non eloquence voices available for it.
I won't consider an i phone, as I dislike apple and again don't like the
voices on the i phone.
Basically, if I am going to upgrade my phone should I be steering clear of
symbian?
my current phone is OK but a bit long in the tooth, and I don't want to
get anything new which will be obsolete soon.
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