Question regarding level star Accessible phone

[Michael Reed]

James,

    No, the Icon is not a phone.  The manufacturers of it keep talking about 
adding that capability, but so far it has only been talk.  Do not think

                    Mike


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Scholes" <james at jamesscholes.com>
To: "The Accessible Phones Discussion List" <blindphones at mosenexplosion.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: Question regarding level star Accessible phone


>I wasn't aware that theIcon was a phone,  thought it was just a PDA.
> James Scholes
> http://www.jamesscholes.com
>
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> From: "TaraPrakash" <taraprakash at gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 4:27 AM
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> Subject: Question regarding level star Accessible phone
>
>> 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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