Question regarding Mobile Speak and Accessible phones

[isaac obie]

Virgie,
I am glad you were able to do that. No point in wasting money. So what will 
you do now? Wait a while? Thanks.
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 9:43 PM
Subject: Re: Question regarding Mobile Speak and Accessible phones


> 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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