Category: accessible Devices
My phone company sells this phone for like 100 bucks that they say has a talking caller id my thing is if i cant get the phone to talk when i scroll back through the calls and shit then how is it a phone that all people can use hmm they say all functions can be used by the blind how??? hey anyone got t-mobile i got a sixty ten and want somethin that will talk with out me having to pay three hundred bucks for talks any ideas??? somethin that wont kill me money wise...
Well over in rip off Britian the excuse put about by the suppliers is there are not enough blind/vi people to justify lowering the price, if we did make our products more affordable,we would be seriously out of pocket..huh!? they seem to forget about the next generation of blind/vi children who will want and need the technology.. and $300 is feckin extortion ..I'd shame them into giving you a better deal..
ah well i reduced my plan with t-mobile down to 20 bucks a month and got cingular and the lg 1500 which should help some
Good but you could still put pressure on these extortionists to lower their prices..you owe it to the blind/vi comunity to make a difference.
matalica girl
if it helps i use a talking phone but on the vodaphone network. it's called the 9210 comunicator and it uses special software
the only problem is it would have to take a sim card
yes it does
well the 1500 is good but drops calls hnmm how odd
I just think organisations like RNIB need to drop the prices one hell of a lot lower so us poor sods on benefits can afford the equipment for personal use at home or at work or wherever. I got this PC for £899 from Time whic[h apostrophe v]e now gone bust and it had everything on it, but the drawback came when I needed JAWS 6 put on it which set me back another £600. It's disgusting I think! We need speech technology, we're visually impaired for fuck's sake, so just buying JAWS leaves us out of pocket. That's why things like the reading machines, scanners, keynote companions, talking dictionaries ETc ETc are so bloody expensive. It's the speech technology which enables us to use them if we can afford it, so the prices have to come down. They need to come down, especially when we go to work and our incapacity benefits stop.
This is always the problem with a nitch market. It's a shame. It's the same thing with freedom scientific! But that is another topic i guess...
No no, I was just talking about JAWS in the last post. £700! Bloody hellfire!
No no, I was just talking about JAWS in the last post. £700! Bloody hellfire!
No no, I was just talking about JAWS in the last post. £700! Bloody hellfire!