Category: Cell Phone Talk
Hi! Please excuse my utter ignorance when it comes to smart phones. I traded phones last weekend just to hear the sound quality of my brother's android and it was quite clearer to the stupid phone (Nokia 6620) I'm still using. Because of moderate hearing loss, clarity and volume are going to be important to me when I finally do decide to upgrade to a smart phone. I'm not so much interested in playing games or listening to music with a phone, but I would like to use one for E-mail and browsing as well as for talking on. Given this, would you recommend an iPhone or an android? Thanks in advance to anybody who can offer a suggestion.
Sorry, I do realize that android is merely the operating system on which some phones run. Therefore, a clarification to my question would be for more specific phone recommendations that use android rather than a comparison between iPhone and android per se.
If your asking about what platform is the easier of the 2 to learn, that is a loaded question. Do to code factery recent intry into android, things have gotten a whole lot easier, also, google has flat out said their putting more efert into android's accessibility, "jenger bred, and icecream sandwidge. Lastly do you want a slider form facter or total touch screen, with the Iphone, your going to have just flat out touch screen. In the land of android you have a choice of what form facter you would like to have. "yes" you can pair a blue tooth keyboard, but why would you want to if you can just have it on your phone.
lastly if you care about your network's speed or if its a 4G phone or not, then if you want a 4G phone that leaves out the Iphone all together
You didn't mention anything about sound quality, though. There are many android phones. do either of them have matching or better sound quality than the iPhone?
The iPhone has accessibility features specifically for people who are deaf or have hearing loss. Some examples of these features are hearing aid mode, mono with audio, control of the stereo balance. amd some other things. I couldn't explain the features themselves to you, perhaps you can play with an iPhone at a store or a friend's iPhone. I am not sure if these features are just for phone calls, or for using the phone in general.
Other than that, I think the phone has great sound quality, but that's coming from a person who does not have impaired hearing. The best way to judge is to find a way to do what I've suggested and get your hands on an iPhone just to see if that's what you want for yourself.
i have impaired hearing, actually rely off hearing aids all the time and love my IPhone. never have too many problems hearing it even in crowded places. Try not to judge the IPhone right at this moment, yes some android phones may have 4g, but what good will 4g do you if you can't access it where you live? Also, more and more android phones are killing off the keyboard so you'll wind up with the same thing as an IPhone but no garenteed access where as voiceover is on every IPhone straight out of the box, and even can be activated straight out of the box with one sequence of button presses. I also would suggest trying to work with an IPhone, see what it's settings are like for the hearing impaired.
I wanted to say that I use Skype on the android phone and it doesn't work for shit. I think it is a peace of crap that is why i am going to get the 3 g s or eye pod touch. over all it is ok for now.
Hi.
Ok, this post is going to be based on my very limited use of the Android platform, and my heavy use of iOS stuff, so it's only partially educated at best.
I have found that the Nexious (which runs on the Android platform), has speech a bit less understandable than that which you find on the iPhone. Same speech synthesizer with the built in mobile accessibility package, bu it sounds a bit more muffled to me, perhaps because the synthsizer is at a lower sampling rate than the premium voice found on the iPhone. Also, if you ever want to consider braille display support given that you have a hearing loss, the Android platform has 0 braille display support. Also, as mentioned above, the iPhone has some specific adaptions for those who are hearing impaired. The mono audio feature works with all functions of the phone, which will channel all audio in to one channel, the custome vibrations function allows you to set specific vibrations for contacts that are outside the standard one long vibration, and AT&T model of the iPhone has a mode called hearing aid mode, which helps eliminate some of the interference found if you utilize a t-coil in a CI or hearing aid. It's not present on the Verizon version of the phone because Verizon uses a different standard for cellphone usage. I hope this info is helpful.
Kay, with android, you can change speach synthisisers or speach engine, yes peco is crap, hints why I do not use it at all. We have voices that have a human like sound to them, as for little foot, the reason why your having a bad android experience on android, is because your phone "is a peace of crap". Sorry, the comit was a budget phone, no longer found at t-mobile any more because of its issues. As for keyboard's going totally away, osrry, not happening, and for the sound quolity for "say my my touch 4G" phone, its like if your standing there talking to me if I have a HS+ signal. So yes, it matters if you go buy a budget phone that is a android, I can tell you by watching my wife live this night mere, its not good at all. Hints why I got her a HTC my touch 4G slider! smile.
Note: the sprint iPhone also does not havehearing aid mode. I am gathering this has something to do with CDMA since the gsm varient does have it. Also, Sound quality is quite subjective. I use an iPhone 4 and it sounds fine. The best thing is to try a phone or two to see what works.
well i have the iphone 4s and a android and i can tell you that the i phone sounes like shit when you are on the phone with some one i mean the apps are cool but the soune is not good the android sounes a hell of a lot better