Question regarding Mobile Speak and Accessible phones

[isaac obie]

Virgie,
You have of course, since then learned that it will indeed work. Sometimes 
you have to turn off graphics or something for this to happen on some 
phones.
I hope you can resolve this issue quickly.
Isaac
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "VIRGIE UNDERWOOD" <v.underwood at verizon.net>
To: "The Accessible Phones Discussion List" <blindphones at mosenexplosion.com>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: Question regarding Mobile Speak and Accessible phones


> Hi Isaac,
> I guess I will wait a while but I am disappointed because I really wanted
> the blackjack II but when Mobile Speak would not work on the blackjack II
> there was no choice but to return it for a refund!
>
> 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 11:18 PM
> Subject: Re: Question regarding Mobile Speak and Accessible phones
>
>
>> 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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