Category: Cell Phone Talk
Hi all,
While me and my fiance were at the mall, we checked out the galaxy s5 and plans. There were a few things I liked about it and android in general. I have a few questions for those who have used android for a bit.
1. What sorts of things should I look out for in an android phone?
2. What is different about the jestures between the iPhone and Android. I know about the flick and double tap among others, but is there any other big differences?
3. When I checked it out, I noticed that the screen was extremely sensative to touch. is there something that can be done about it so that you're not pressing buttons that you don't want to?
4. Just like in the iDevices, can you put your apps in folders, or is there another system to keep things organized.
5. is there anything else that I should keep in mind should I decide to buy the s5 or any android phone for that matter?
6. How is typing with talkback? I'm sure I have tons more questions, but these will do for now. Any bit of advice would be good. Thanks,
Leslie
Hi.
One more question. I know that to turn screen curtain on and off in the iDevices you do a three finger tripple tap. How is it accessed on android. Thanks again.
Take a look at the following blog post I wrote when using an Android phone for about a month.
http://www.blindtech.net/?p=26
While I know starfly will argue that this isn't valid because I wasn't using a Galaxy phone which does have more accessibility features it should still be a decent starting point. I would suggest you look up the Galaxy S5 manual and read the accessibility section to try and determine how it compares to my experiences.
Thanks. Will do.
The galaxy S5 is about as close as your going to get to an IPhone accessibility. It's home screen informs the user when your on a Icon when dragging which allows you to make folders. So in short yes you can make folders. We have angle jesters which some pick up well others have issues, depending on the device, android OS and sencitivity of your screen, envoking our angle jesters will come easy or hard to you. Pratice makes perfect. I did not read roman Battle mask' blog but to drop a tid bit here, talkback has what we call side tap jesters. You can tap your device to invoke the global and local context menus. So if you have trouble with the down right and up up right jesters you can set up the side tap jesters. Second, for a new user a galaxy S5 or note III or note 4 would do you fine to start out with when learning android. Samsung has gone out of their way to make their touchwiz blind friendly, easy to use and this is coming from a person who used to hate skinned phones. Lets get past skinned and unskinned phones that is another nut shell I am not cracking here. Samsung devices has built in totorials or help promps through out the OS such as in the contacts, phone app and home screen. Even theire camra has a small promp which lets you know talkback will take control of the camra. You want this because it will tell you how many faces and where the faces are located in the camera view. Same as the IPhone, I know Samsung swiped this from IOS cross sharing of accessibility does help in the log run. lets get back to your other question, can you make the screen less sencitive, yes, its found under accessibility and mobility. No, stock android does not have this setting yet!. If you have any questions email me off here at danny.mathis@gmail.com, I will attempt to answer any questions you have TheLeslieThing. I promise not to make this IOS VS Android TheLeslieThing this is not the time or place for it.
Lastly Samsung Devices that are current running KitKat have a feature just like screen curten call "screen darken". I can be quickly inable and disable by double tapping the power button. Again, Samsung devices is where I would suggest a new user to start with at this time. Samsung takes a hands on approach nexus devices take a hands off approach.
Welcome to Android, leslie. I hope you get an Android phone and can enjoy it and not find it frustrating. I'd be happy to help, as well, if you have any questions.
Take Care,,
Dawnielle
I would call Nexus devices Google not caring about accessibility as much as sampsing does, not hands off.
Hi all, I have an update. I decided to switch to android. I found a phone that I like and it's gonna be here in the next couple days. I have a few more questions.
1. can anyone point me to any websites that talk about accessible apps that work with talk back? I found a google support page for talk back that explain how to start up talk back and some basic jestures.
2. is typing on an android device different than typing on an iDevice? How so. Thanks,
Leslie
yes its on my app board here is call android Tk. Also, with IOS's touch type "slide and life" android uses this method as well. If its a Samsung device your getting you will need to change the setting under device accessibility, rapid typing. Each keyboar either has its on settings or will follow the standard android keyboard settings. I hope that helps you and welcome to android. I hope you are getting 5.0 for your new phone.
I myself have the S5, and am very pleased with how it handles. I hope you like the phone you chose, as others I have tried haven't been as nice to a beginner android user.
Rat if you have questions I will be glad to answer them. I also have boards here that might help. Lastly, join the eyes-free google group; they are a valuable resource for new users. Rat your spot on; the zone is not known to be nice to android users. This area of the net is mostly dominated IOS users and a few android early adopters such as me. We have some users who use IOS tried android, prayed it would work like there IPhone and fell square on their face when android did not act like IOS. Size, I have always said do not make an android device behave like an IOS device you’re going to epically fell. My last piece of advice, go and explore talkback's settings found under "system settings" "Samsung device" "settings" "nexus" "devices" it’s just settings, accessibility found at the bottom of settings or Samsung devices system settings, device close to the bottom is accessibility. Explore and become very acquainted with the accessibility settings. Under talkback's settings is a setting called manage jesters. If you are about to guess that this setting will allow you to change your angle jesters you guess write. Unlike IOS android's talkback will allow you to set the angle jesters with jesters pre-defined by the eyes-free team.
Hi all,
Thanks for the help. I've had my android phone for two months now. It wasn't a very big learning curve. I caught on quick. I have a braille display which I use with it. Thanks again,
Leslie
In the galaxy S5 accessibility found under device, accessibility, a setting called dark screen, this setting will dim your screen, and it’s similar to IOS. Roman battle mask, I pondered for a bit as to whether I was going to answer your post on your knowledge of android Vs mine. At this time I would rather let the evidence stands for itself rather than argue with you. It’s clear you like IOS a lot and it’s your main platform. So with that said your expectations of how a stock android should run Vs IOS is definitely byist. So are mine seeing how android has been my main mobile platform for about 5 years not 1 month compared to your "experiment” My choice to have a stock android device over Samsung is obvious to those who know a little about android's update cycle, google controls my nexus6 device, T-Mobile has no say when I get updates and I have lollipop now not 2 two 3 months down the road. This is the great thing about android, choice in what device, size of screen and if your want a Micro SD card slot or if you’re happy with internal storage. Heck you can even slap a USB keyboard on the device by using a many USB to USB t2.0 cable.