Category: Cell Phone Talk
A few years back, I heard about an android phone designed for the blind, called
the Kapsys Smart Vision. It is a phone with physical buttons, and the android
operating system. I know it is available in countries such as the UK, but I don’t
think it is available in the US. Has anyone tried this phone? If so, what was your
experience like? Also, do you think it will ever come to the US? I’m a very happy
iPhone user, but I know some people who could benefit from a device like this.
So I take it you haven't used it.
I considered buying one, but chose not to because:
Availability was so limited, that I didn't find a page in the UK which stated specifically that the Smart Vision being sold was the Smart Vision 2 Premium.
I could not find a comprehensive audio or video demonstration on the internet. By that I mean a demonstration in which a friendly person guides you through doing various things on the phone, describes the phone, etc, like there was for the Claria Vision.
I know there are buttons, but what buttons? Just numbers, or additional buttons for menus, arrows, OK and cancel?
Does the browser use the numbers to assist with navigation, like having a number for hheadings and a number for forms?
The Smart Vision may be a good phone. It may even have been the ideal phone for me, somebody who struggles with touch screens and would rather have a key pad or at least something like the Claria Vision Vox, which is easily the most well-thought-out smart phone for people like me ever to have been invented. I don't know, because the marketing is terrible. I am not sure how good the customer service is, but I don't have high expectations due to the marketing.
What I know about the phone is also very limited. I know you don't have to
touch the screen at all if you don't want to. I just hope it comes here to the US
so I can learn more about it.
A Droid on which I wouldn't have to touch the screen? Sign me up! LOL!
not heard of the phone but would of been ideal for me but i have an iPhone now and it really isn't as difficult to use once you get use to the touch screen, smiles.
I heard of this particular phone just today actually--I have a friend who is an Android user and even he says that the Apple iPhone is far better than anything Android currently has available. He says Android still has a long way to go accessibility wise before they catch up to Apple.
Hi So lets stick with facts, why does your friend believe android has a long way to go Chelsea before it is equally on the leave playing field in regards to IOS? Please post facts, instead of general statements. NOt looking for a fight, just looking for facts mixed into people's android accessibility statements. FYI, braille is now undering going an update just for those who toss android's lack of braille in the mix. I got one word, "get involved, get off the side lines".
Now back to this phone, its specs are subpar, black bary android phones have hire specs and a keyboard to boot. Food for thought if you want an android with a keyboard.