Hi All. I know I said I'd take a backseat from now on however, I wanted to make a couple of comments regarding my experiences with using the iPhone.
As members of the list will have observed, I am a great supporter of Talks and love Nokia smart phones. A little while ago I purchased an iPhone 4 to see what I thought of it. I have always used an iPod touch for my music and leisure so was familiar with the Apple lay-out. Now let me say again that this is my personal experience. Firstly, I found the quality of the iPhone quite poor - in that I mean the sound compared to my Nokia or previous phones. The main thing however was texting. I found this to be extremely slow and although I spent time using the iPhone I never got much speed up to any of my Nokia phones. Also, Since IOS 65 upgrade, I have never liked the new voice we were foisted with. I know there are those who carry around a portable bluetooth or Bluetooth Braille keyboard but be honest, I want to carry as little with me as possible not 2 or 3 devices that are connected to the one phone ETC. I would finish by perhaps asking that unanswered question, Does one want to buyh a phone for the "Phone" or all the other communication requirements. Just some observations. Maurice Press Managing Director of the Disability Resource Team T: +44 (0) 208 943 0022 F: +44 (0) 208 943 5162 Website: www.disabilityresourceteam.com Company Registration Number: 5191276. Registered Office Address: DRT: 2nd Floor, 6 Park Road, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11 0AA. -----Original Message----- From: talks-boun...@talksusers.com [mailto:talks-boun...@talksusers.com] On Behalf Of Eleanor Burke Sent: 18 March 2012 21:39 To: Talks Mailing List Subject: Re: [Talks] I just bought an iPhone Christopher I am very pleased to read what you write below re Talks and iPhone. I am aware of more and more blind people making the move over to iPhone and I am thinking seriously about it for my necxt phone, however, I have been a Talks user for 4 years now and my appeal here is to the Talks developers not to let the iPhone and Android take over the market of screen readers for the blind. My Symbian S60 has met all my needs up to 2011 but Talks is not meeting my needs at present. What then are my problems? 1. E-mail accessability is not what it was. I cannot seem to find a way on my E6 to save a new e-mail address. 2. As pointed out by another list member, over a week ago, the Edit boxes in Twitter and Facebook have Talks continually saying edit box while one is writing. Yet this has only become an issue with Talks released in February 2012. What surprises me is that such an issue is not known at release time. Surely the developers run through e-mail, internet and social network sites prior to release. 3. Despite all I said over months about the work around on E6 to start writing in a word document. My comments were not listened to. Finally Talks developers, I love Talks and do not want to stop using this excellent and reasonably priced software, but if my comments and those of other users fall on deaf ears, then we may be forced to go out and purchase an alternative mobile device than the symbian S60 one. -----Original message----- From: Christopher Chaltain Sent: 18/03/2012, 3:28 pm To: Talks Mailing List Subject: [Talks] I just bought an iPhone Well, after being a happy Symbian and Talks user for almost exactly 9 years, I finally decided to get a new smart phone, and this time I went with an iPhone. Not that why I did so is important to anyone, but I'll include some of my thoughts below, as well as how much I appreciate Talks and the Symbian platform. I started using Talks while it was still in beta back at the end of 2002. I got a Nokia 9290 communicator, and I think this, in conjunction with Talks, was the first fully accessible smart phone available to the blind. I've had 2 Symbian phones since then, the Nokia N75 and the AT&T Nokia E71X. Each phone had it's strengths and weaknesses, but in general, I've never been disappointed with Symbian or Talks. My decision to go with an iPhone was a tough one, although that was as much philosophical as anything else. I type on my E71X much less than I used to, so the thought of going with a touch only device became less of a concern for me. I was kind of waiting for the Droid 4 (which will have a keyboard), but I wasn't sure when or if AT&T would ever carry the Droid 4, and after reading multiple reviews of Android and Ice Cream Sandwich, it seemed like I'd be waiting quite a while for Android to catch up with the iPhone with respect to accessibility. The closed nature of the iPhone also concerned me when comparing it to an Android, or even a Symbian, phone, but I use the cloud more and more, and I eventually decided that I could leverage the cloud enough to minimize my need to use Windows or iTunes. I also started finding myself needing an IOS or Android device for work and wanting one for personal use, e.g. the apps I needed for work or wanted to use personally were only available on the IOS or Android platforms. Although there isn't anything wrong with my E71X, it is starting to show it's age, and once I decided Android would be playing catch up with the iPhone with respect to accessibility for quite some time to come, even given Ice Cream Sandwich. I decided there was no longer any reason to wait. I just want to say that I never slammed the iPhone, so I don't think I'm being hypocritical at all. I still feel the Symbian device and Talks are perfectly adequate solutions for the right situation, and I don't think anyone needs to feel like they're being left behind if they choose to continue to use a Symbian device for another handset or two. It's all about what you want and what gets the job done. I just want to conclude by letting the Talks developers and this list know how much I appreciated the technological advances made by the Talks developers. They were truly visionaries. I also want this list to know how much I appreciated the support I got from this list and it's members. I'm convinced that without Symbian, Talks and this list, I would not have been a satisfied blind smart phone user these past nine years. I'll hang out on this list for a bit, and I'm sure I'll see some of you on more generic lists, but eventually I'll have to unsubscribe from this list, unless of course, I can't stand the iPhone and come back to Talks! Wow, this all seems a bit melodramatic, but Talks and this list have actually been a big part of my life for most of a decade, so I hope y'all will forgive my drama! Good luck everyone in that quest for the perfect smart phone for your own situation! -- Christopher (CJ) chalt...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Talks mailing list Talks@talksusers.com http://lists.talksusers.com/mailman/listinfo/talks Hosting of this list provided courtesy of: eHosting Limited: http://www.ehosting.com/ and Talknav Inc. http://www.talknav.net/ _______________________________________________ Talks mailing list Talks@talksusers.com http://lists.talksusers.com/mailman/listinfo/talks Hosting of this list provided courtesy of: eHosting Limited: http://www.ehosting.com/ and Talknav Inc. http://www.talknav.net/ ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1424 / Virus Database: 2113/4879 - Release Date: 03/18/12 ----- No virus found in this message. 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