Category: Cell Phone Talk
If any of you have been following the trin with t-mobile as far as accessible phones are consurned it looks like as of now we blindies have just an android platform to work with. So what would you do in this situation? I want to get away from the touch pro2, was looking at the HD2 but now I am faced with just the android platform. Call me a spoiled Mobile speak user but this is total crap. Outside of going on ebay which I do not trust, its probly just me, I just don't like playing rushin rulet with electronics just to buy something that can not bee replaced with a worntee. So what would you all do, fight with t-mobile until they come up with a fully exceptible phone solution or just ask to bee released from the contract so I can go find another provider who can give me the accessibility I desire.
Personally I'd go to another provider who would provide me with what I needed.
bryon i am actually pondering this move, while I do not like A T and T its the network where I could get a Iphone.
Well after along fight, who knows how many calls i finally got the phone I wanted. Still for those who are on t-mobile soon your choice when its time to upgrade or just want to swap phones will bee Android phones. So far from my observance and this is just from what I have noticed windows phones are slowly leaving the network, where I live the is not a Nokia phone avalible. So good luck, and please educate T-moble on moble speak when you call them. its a long shot but i figure if enough of us inform them maybe something will bee done for accessibility.
Hmm... if any of you are with t-mobile, in the market for a new phone go look at the HD2. Its a fully touch screen phone running windows 6.5 with HTC sense on top of it. Its getting harder to find but it has only froze on me wants, the screen is very sensitive and man! is it thin. :)
I just left t mobile. Didn't really like their phones that much. I just moved back to verizon and liked that much better.
I wouldn't mind an Android phone, which I would use to tether to my iPod Touch: so far as I know, the built-in accessibility will allow you to call, text, manage all your settings, tether, even GPS.
windows mobile is dying, i'm shocked they could get you windows mobile anything.
It was a very hard fight to get an HD2! but i got one. I love it but wants the ability to use android with accessibility allows a person to use a total touch screen with out a track ball or directional pad I will flash my HD2 to that android rom. Until then I am staying with this phone or will get a Iphone and put it on a t-mobile plan.
Of course now you can get the IPhone on Verizon. Admittedly I don't know much about that. If it had been available at the time when I got my Iphone I might have considered it. But I've never really had problems with AT&T, well none that I wasn't able to get solved ina reasonably timely manner. Of course it helps that the people working at the local AT&T office here seem to be extremely helpful.
For those of you on t-mobile, since, they have revamped their rate plans and may be offering the IPhone soon. ATT will grandfather the current users in. Just something to keep in mind.
Actually I am keeping this in mind because I love my plan.
So far the Hd2 does what I need it to do fore now.
I know you don't like android phones but my friend uses the g2 on tMobile. It's an android phone that has a touch screen but also has a keyboard as well. He seems to do just fine with it. And as per mobile speak they are working on an android platform solution now for their accessibility. It's called mobile accessibility for android and they are letting android users test it now. Hope that helps.
Jess
Ya I know about it but seriously I would go android totally if they would just lose the hardware keyboard. Sorry the I devices and moblespeak spoiled me. I know pick android or Iphone and deal with it. :)
there are touch screen only anderoid devices as well. At least on at & T and verizon there are.
My question is does a person really have to use a track ball or pad, dirrectional keys or something to that extent to use android? If not and that issue has been rectified then I can flash my HD2 to run android then my issue is solved and I can find accessible apps. Just fore those who wonder if this task has been done, yes! its been done and there is a form that talks about it.
not yet. You still need some sort of directional controls. They are working on it and even an onscreen directional control is in development. Keyboard or no keyboard, directional controls or swipe, those should be personal preference. Personally, The one thing I don't like about the IPhone is its lack of the availability to buy a phone configured the way I want it. The reason windows mobile is leaving the market is because they are replacing it with windows phone 7 and that was released with accessibility broken. Take what you want, like the IPhone and like T-Mobile, by an unlocked one for ATT and use it on T-Mobile. A million people supposedly do. Like windows mobile, contact Microsoft and ask when the accessibility problems are to be ironed out. In the end, We have to be the ones to take initiative to get our devices made more accessible for us. Just remember, not everybody likes what you or I like and choice is what is important here.
yappers, I am going to take the plunge and get a my touch 4g I hope to test it in the store if the accessibility does not work with the track pad I will just settle fore the G2 x.