Question regarding Mobile Speak and Accessible phones

[VIRGIE UNDERWOOD]

Isaac,
I did get sighted assistance and it still did not work.  I returned it to 
AT&T and got a refund.  I really liked the phone too.

Virgie and Lady Hoshi
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "isaac obie" <iobie at gis.net>
To: "The Accessible Phones Discussion List" <blindphones at mosenexplosion.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: Question regarding Mobile Speak and Accessible phones


> 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
>>>
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