Question regarding Mobile Speak and Accessible phones

[isaac obie]

Virgie,
What did you do with the phone that didn't work? did you get sighted 
assistance to be sure it didn't work?
Isaac
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "VIRGIE UNDERWOOD" <v.underwood at verizon.net>
To: "The Accessible Phones Discussion List" <blindphones at mosenexplosion.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: Question regarding Mobile Speak and Accessible phones


> Hi Brent,
> I purchased the blackjack II phone and could not even get a demo of Mobile
> Speak to work on that phone.  Mobile Speak does work on the blackjack but
> not the blackjack II phone.
> Virgie and Lady Hoshi
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Brent Reynolds" <reynolds53 at bellsouth.net>
> To: <blindphones at mosenexplosion.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 5:31 PM
> Subject: Re: Question regarding Mobile Speak and Accessible phones
>
>
>>
>>
>> Well, Steven, you are usually right and right-on with the information you
>> post.  When you stated, though, that the N75 is the only accessible phone
>> AT&T supports, you were not correct.
>>
>> As of about this time last week, AT&T was officially supporting five
>> phones
>> to go with their $89-dollar license price for MobileSpeak.  These are the
>> Nokia E62, which is no longer being sold by AT&T, but if you find one, or
>> have one, they will allow you the MobileSpeak license for 89 dollars.
>> Next
>> is the N75, which is being sold and supported, and is widely available at
>> probably every AT&T store, either the company stores, or the contract
>> stores.
>>
>> Then, there are the Pantech Duo; the Samsung Blackjack; and the Motorola
>> Q,
>> which I believe is the version 9.something.  The Pantech, the Samsung, 
>> and
>> the Motorola run on Microsoft Windows Mobile, either version 5 or 6, and
>> would use MobileSpeak SmartPhone.  Whether your supported phone from AT&T
>> uses MobileSpeak, or the smartphone version, the license from AT&T will
>> still cost you only $89.
>>
>> I have a friend who acquired the Samsung Blackjack II, and said he was
>> able
>> to convince the AT&T disability department to allow him the MobileSpeak
>> SmartPhone license for the $89.  AT&T is no longer selling the original
>> Samsung Blackjack, and you will most likely not find one in any of the
>> AT&T
>> mobile phone stores.  The Blackjack has been replaced by the Blackjack 
>> II.
>> The Blackjack runs on Windows Mobile 5 and the Blackjack II on Windows
>> Mobile 6.
>>
>> Even though my friend in Florida said he was able to get the disability
>> department folks to sell him the screen reader license for $89, they told
>> me
>> that they were not currently (as of last week) supporting the Blackjack 
>> II
>> for MobileSpeak, because they had not yet tested it and that, according 
>> to
>> the info I was given, "some of the menus don't work propperly with the
>> screen reader".
>>
>> There is another downside to AT&T's trying to tie the license deal with
>> specific phones.  They should allow it at the subsidized price to any of
>> their customers who have verified officially that they qualify based on a
>> disability for the lcense, as long as they have a GSM phone that is
>> supported by a version of the screen reader, and are using that phone
>> under
>> a two-year AT&T service contract.
>>
>> I am quite sure that, since the E62 has basically gone away, and had done
>> so
>> within at least two weeks of AT&T's original December 17, 2007 press puff
>> piece about the MobileSpeak deal, and since the BlackJack has already 
>> been
>> replaced by the Blackjack II, that leaves only three, and who knows how
>> long
>> that will last, of the original phones supported under the deal still
>> available, they should be soon announcing additional "supported devices".
>>
>> Of the smartphone models, I liked the keys on the Blackjack II best of 
>> the
>> lot I saw at my local store last week, but will probably end up going 
>> with
>> the N75, since I can't afford the N82, and the N73 might be somewhat
>> difficult to come by.
>>
>> Brent Reynolds, Atlanta, GA  USA
>> Email: reynolds53 at bellsouth.net  Phone: 1-404-814-0768
>>
>>
>> You received this message because you subscribed to the Accessible Phones
>> Discussion List.
>>
>> If you don't want to receive messages from this list anymore, just send a
>> blank e-mail to:
>> blindphones-unsubscribe at mosenexplosion.com
>
>
> You received this message because you subscribed to the Accessible Phones 
> Discussion List.
>
> If you don't want to receive messages from this list anymore, just send a 
> blank e-mail to:
> blindphones-unsubscribe at mosenexplosion.com
>