accessible phones and networks

[Marcy Weinberg]

Dear James,
Wow!  I'm actually amazed at this info!  We've been AT&T customers since it 
was the old AT&T, then Cingular, and now the NEW AT&T.  Absolutely NOBODY in 
any of the AT&T stores in our area, and I've been to various, has ever told 
me about getting a phone and having mobilespeak installed with a 2-year 
contract.  They all know about my visual issues, and yet none of them has 
even hinted at this possibility for me.  I think I need to talk to the 
accessibility folks at the corporate AT&T and ask why their employees are 
not telling visually challenged folks about this.      So, now that I know 
about it, you can bet your sweet bippy I'll be on the phone tomorrow to ask 
about it, especially to our favorite AT&T store manager, who up till this 
point has seemed to be the most knowledgeable about their phones, plans, and 
so on.  Thanks so much for this info!  Marcy


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Watts" <jameswatts at intergate.com>
To: "The Accessible Phones Discussion List" <blindphones at mosenexplosion.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: accessible phones and networks


> 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.
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