Question regarding Mobile Speak and Accessible phones

[Stephen Giggar]

Brian

They are now calling the N75 the N75 TabTop. So the Rep may not have been  able to find it under the 
old name.

Note! The N75 TabTop StandBy screen does not work with screen readers. You have to turn off the 
TabTop. The TabTop is like the Nokia active standby screen. But it is one big graphic.

Signed: Stephen Giggar
sgiggar at sbcglobal.net
Skype: dr-phone.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Hansen" <bc.hansen23 at mchsi.com>
To: "'The Accessible Phones Discussion List'" <blindphones at mosenexplosion.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 3:00 AM
Subject: RE: Question regarding Mobile Speak and Accessible phones


>I just tried to purchase the N75 from AT&T by phone last Friday, and they
> said they are no longer carrying that model.  The customer rep I spoke with
> told me that they could no longer get them, and my local store said they
> haven't had any in stock in a couple of months.  I was blessed in the fact
> that I was unable to locate an unlocked version via the net and purchase it.
> I guess Nokia is no longer going to manufacturer them or something like
> that.
>
> Blessings,
>
> Brian
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindphones-bounces at mosenexplosion.com
> [mailto:blindphones-bounces at mosenexplosion.com] On Behalf Of VIRGIE
> UNDERWOOD
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 4:40 PM
> To: The Accessible Phones Discussion List
> 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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