accessible phones and networks

[James Watts]

As far as I know, while Dennis's assessment that Talks may be the better of
the two screen readers is correct, not that I have yet had personal
experience either with it or Mobile Speak, I also believe him to be in error
when he said that T Mobile offers Mobile Speak for $89 with a two-year
commitment. It is A T and T which offers Mobile Speak for $89 with a
two-year with one of three select phones including the Nokia N75, the
Motorola Q and one other model with which I'm not familiar. It would be nice
if what he said was true as my family has bugged me to go over to T Mobile
for more than two years now. I have been a Verizon customer as some of their
LG's give limited voice feedback out of the box. My question is somewhat
like Lauren's in that while I would like full access, I would like my next
phone to be at least reasonably accessible, but I have had no previous
experience installing third-party software on a phone. If the latest LG's
including the 8350 and 5400 don't have any additional voice readout than the
ones of two years ago, it may not be a good idea to stick with Verizon, but
probably move to A T and T and get something like the Q with Mobile Speak.
I'm presently in Denver, but soon moving to Calhoun in northwest Georgia. It
appears that most people in that area are on A T and T and when I have been
there I have generally had very poor coverage with my VX 4650. Besides, of
the four largest carriers, namely, Sprint, Verizon, A T and T and T Mobile,
only A T and T has a store in Calhoun which may be important as reliable
transportation may prove difficult to come by at best. The way I understand
it, one buys one of the selected phones and the contract from the A T and T
wireless store, and when notifying the center for customers with
disabilities of this, the customer then ships the phone to them at which
time the screen reader is installed on the phone.