Totally Confused About Phones and Software

[Caroline]

Hi everyone.  I've been a happy Sprint customer since August of 2003, and don't want to make any changes to that.  For the past year I've had the LGLX550 Fusic and it's been meeting my needs in terms of speaking caller ID information, allowing me to review my call logs, accessing my contacts list, so on and so forth.  The problem is, I'm on my second one, and I keep running into problems.  The phone likes to turn itself off randomly, which makes me lose calls, and lately it's been misreporting caller ID information.  When I'm working, I need a phone that's going to be reliable for me.  As far as I know, the only other "accessible" phone that Sprint offers is the Motorola Q.  Getting any sort of help from the disability center at Sprint is almost impossible, so I haven't talked to them yet.  So, this leads me to my questions.

First, what's the difference between the Symbian phones and ... those that aren't?  I know that the phones from Sprint don't operate on the Symbian network.  Then, what, exactly is the difference between the operating system on say, the Nokia N82, (which is not a Sprint phone), and the Motorola Q which is now running Windows Mobile 6?  

Answers to those questions may answer my next questions, but I'll ask anyway.  I'm looking at Mobile Speak as my way of making the phone talk.  I've looked on the Code Factory web site, and I can't find a lot of description about the differences in their software.  Is there any difference between the Symbian-based Mobile Speak Pocket and the Smart Phone version?  I want to make sure I do this right.  Any suggestions would be really helpful.  Thanks in advance.

Caroline


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