Question regarding level star Accessible phone

[TaraPrakash]

Hi all.
I think it is called Icon?
Has anyone on the list tried it? Will it be more advisable to buy a cell 
phone with wi-fi and a screen reader than buying Icon which costs around 
$1100?
I know that I con can read bookshare books and it has a large storage, is 
there anything else which makes it better than the mainstream phones? I 
can't buy the phones with a plan, still a year before my current plan gets 
over.
Thanks in anticipation


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Giggar" <sgiggar at sbcglobal.net>
To: "The Accessible Phones Discussion List" <blindphones at mosenexplosion.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: Question regarding Mobile Speak and Accessible phones


> Brent
>
> The initial thing she was talking about was Symbian based phones. In this 
> case I'm write. AT&T only
> sells one Symbian based phone and that is the N75. I didn't state SUPPORT. 
> I believe I stated the
> following.
>
> Quoted lines from myself!
> First of all; Any other phone that you go with, you will have to buy the 
> phone outright. The reason
> why is AT&T does not carry any thing accept for the N75.
> End Quoted lines.
>
> The initial question had to do with other phones like the N75. All the 
> other models I gave are
> related to the N75. The Windows based phones are not related to the N75.
>
> As you stated; The E62 isn't being sold by AT&T any more. The N75 is the 
> only Symbian based phone
> sold by them. So if She wants another Symbian based phones then she will 
> have to go and buy it out
> right.
>
> No the N75 is not carries in all areas or stores even corporate stores. 
> The area of the country I
> live in; none of the AT&T stores or other outlets have the N75. The only 
> way to get it is to buy it
> on-line.
>
> I agree with you about tying the license to the  Talks or MobileSpeak to 
> just phones they sell.
> Instead I think they should look at it as Do you have a current AT&T cell 
> phone calling plan with
> us.
>
> No the N73 Brent is easy to find.
>
> Who knows; The N75 may be going away this coming summer for the most part. 
> That is my gut telling me
> that. I act allot on way things feel to me and most of the time it serves 
> me well.
>
> Signed: Stephen Giggar
> sgiggar at sbcglobal.net
> Skype: dr-phone.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Brent Reynolds" <reynolds53 at bellsouth.net>
> To: <blindphones at mosenexplosion.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 4:31 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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