Re: Kapsys SmartVision 2 cell phone
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wayne <greenwood33@...>
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Carolyn, I'm going to tell you about 3
possibilities of phones that would be just what your friend needs and is looking
for. I'm also going to tell about the phones that I know that are available for
some other carriers that I know of. Before I tell you about the phones, I just
wanted to point out something that we all pretty much know, and that is
sometimes the sales people don't know details and can't answer questions about
when the speech is on the phone and in some cases they don't even know if it has
speech that you can turn on. Though there's some sales people that are a bit
more knowledgible, but since they don't use the phones with the speech on
there's questions they don't know how to answer and part of that is because they
don't use the speech. Now about the phones, if your friend wants to stay with
verizon, there's 3 phones currently that are accessible with the text to speech,
including the caller id, and the phones are
1. the kyozera cadence flip phone,
2. the kyozera duraforce a bit more rugged flip
phone
and 3. the lg exaltflip phone. For some details
about the keypads on these phones. The kyozera cadence keypad you can tell the
difference between the buttons. In fact on the 5 key there's a dot in the middle
of the key, and on the end key there's a dot on the right side of
the key. The lg exalt keypad keys are easy to tell apart as well, and with the 5
key having a dot on the left site of the key and another dot on the right side
of the key and the end key having 2 dots as well, just like the 5 key with 1 dot
on the left side of the key and a dot on the right side of the key.
Unfortunately I don't have the kyozera duraforce so I can't tell you about the
dots on the 5 and end keys on that phone, though it's most likely like the
cadence phone. We're planning to go to the verizon store to look at it. All 3 of
these phones have the text to speech including the caller id. If your friend is
looking to get a prepaid phone with verizon, presently walmart is selling the
kyozera phone for $29. We've had the experience before, how chain stores
in one area may not have some of the same products as others, so hopefully your
friend's walmart sells the cadence phone as a prepaid phone. I don't know if you
could buy a cadence postpaid phone at walmart which I don't think that
they do. If she's interested in verizon postpaid her verizon store would most
likely have all 3 phones to look at and purchase, the kyozera cadence, the
kyozera duraforce and the lg exalt. Now for some accessibility details, besides
the text to speech, in the accessibility area on the cadence phone, I found the
setting for fant size, so one can adjust the print size, and in the acessibility
area of the exalt it's called larger text that you would go into adjust the
print. In the accessibility area on both phones, it has the tty mode, and the
hearing aid mode as well. If your friend is into texting or typing in her own
contacts, if she used the voice on the phone in the options the different
modes to capitalize letters, getting to the symbals and numbers is easily done
on both these phones, which isn't the case on other models of flip phones. If
she's with verizon, here's 4 bit older flip phones that have text to
speech with full read out including the caller id are, the samsung gusto
3, the samsung convoy 4 and the kyozera dura xv. The gusto 3 and the convoy 4
are 3g phones so due to 5 g coming out, the 3 g network will only be in use for
another year. It's getting harder to find these phones since depending on these
phones, some came out about 3 years ago and some came out 4 years ago, as far as
these last 3 phones I'm telling you about. I'm not sure right now if the dura xv
is 3 g or 4 g, but I haven't found it in any of the stores lately, but it too
has full read out and the caller id. You would most likely be able to find these
phones on amazon, and has for the gusto 3, laz sells the gusto 3 for for about
$59. If your friend was on t-mobile another bit older phone is the candy bar
phone the samsung t-199 which has total read out with the text to speech and the
caller id. The buttons are those rubberized feeling buttons that I find
confortable to dial on and you can dell the difference between the keys. The
other 2 current phones that I know about that have the text to speech, that I
haven't seen yet are the kyozera duramax for sprint and the kyozera dura x
e for at&t, both these phones are the rugged sturdy phones, that I
believe are the same as the duraforce for verizon. Soon enough I'll get around
to the different stores to check out these 3 phones, the duraforce, the dura x e
and the duramax and I'll be able to answer more questions and be able to tell
more about these phones. Though from what I understand from both a sales guy at
sprint and the sales guy I know at verizon, they do have the full read out text
to speech. If anyone knows more about these phones it would be interesting to
hear about them.
If your friend wants to use consumer cellular
There's 2 flip phones, the doro from what I found out only talks the numbers, as
far as what I understand so far that it doesn't have full read out for the
options and menues to speak. A customer service person from consumer cellular
had the doro phone to look at, and she was going through the menues, and as I
said the only thing she could see that she could do was turning on the speech to
hear the numbers. The voice for the doro was a pleasant male voice. She didn't
know for sure if the caller id worked as far as the voice announcing the phone
number that was calling. We couldn't test it since neither one of us could call
the phone, nor could she call out on that phone. The other phone is the
acatel go flip phone that does have the text to speech. While it talks all the
menues and options, when it comes to writing a text message the modes for the
symbals such as period, comma and so on and the number mode isn't accessible to
get too. You could hold down the pound key to capatilize a letter but the other
modes that most likely show up from the pound key don't talk. That would also go
for the email area, which does talk, but it's getting to those symbals and
numbers when you need them. Unfortunately the talking id doesn't work in this
phone, the acatel go flip. Both at&t and T-mobile have available the acatel
flip 2, and I don't think the talking id works in those phones either. I had a
prepaid acatel flip 2 for a prepaid phone, and I don't remember it having the
caller id. I still have the phone but it's not connected now, but I don't think
it did. If anyone has questions about any of these phones, I would be happy to
answer what I do know, either on the list or off list. My email address
is
Arlene
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