If the motherboard on my computer goes out, no amount of tapping on the keyboard is going to fix it. Likewise, if the chip on in iPhone craps out, the lack of a keyboard will be of no difference.

Hundreds of millions of computers no longer have tactile keyboards. Your computer, and mine, have keyboards. All the tablets; windows, android and apple, do not come with a physical keyboard, but

The difference is that a computer has a tactile keyboard. A smart phone doesn't, which makes it more difficult for a blind consumer to resolve a problem without sighted help. Don't mix

Not if the battery is user replaceable, as it is on many cell phones. Gerald

Remember when Appleboasted that it would start making IPhones in the US?  How did that work out?  Now they are all made in China in sweatshops whose workers are paid coolie wages to maximize Apple's

I have been using ios since 2012. My brother bought me my very first iPod Touch, Then in 1013, he bought me an iPad mini. He just bought me an iPad mini 4. I love the books by Larry Lewis that

Hi Gerald, When you have voiceover on, go into Settings, General, Accessibility, shortcuts. Turn on shortcuts in Accessibility in general in settings. Een as do not have a voice, top the home

I slightly misquoted the headline, which is: SEISMIC SHIFT - Apple is considering letting users change default email, browser, music apps in iOS The plans are not final, but they would make for a

Hmm, Gerald, I may be wrong, but I don't know of any smart toy as I call them being made in the United States! Even the iPhone is assembled in China and imported back into our country; Samsung toys

This is another example of selective bias. I have never heard you, Gerald, say that people shouldn't use or purchase used Braille 'N Speaks because the battery pack is not user replaceable. its only

Hi, Josh. I don't have any information about this as the team that I work with doesn't get directly involved with the various plans which are being offered except where accessibility is

These specialized phones are manufactured overseas by obscure companies that do not have proven track records, so it is difficult to predict their reliability. I have checked the

Yes, my friend has an older I phone, an s e I think. The battery died and he had to take it to a chop to have it replaced. Even if you have a cell phone, new or old, you will have to go to a phone

He is not saying that. Your computer's mother board can develop a problem and the computer won't function at all. I don't see you begging the question about your computer or implying that you

Let’s see now. In the last millennium, I think it was 1998, Mr. Micro, Bill Gates was on stage, Start me up by the rolling stones was blasting in the background. It was the launch of windows 98,

Alex, I doubt if Gerald has ever held a smart toy in his hands! Whilst his fears and assumptions are somewhat misplaced, I'd like to think that you and I were in the same place until our hot hands

We'll see if you are right about repair difficulty from other comments. regardless, depending on the abilities of the phones and the wants and needs of the user, such a risk may be worth it if you

Well a good oderbox case would help to prevent that and keeping your phone pertected also helps. yes from what I know the battery is not accessible and I think it is not able to be accesed by the

But how much do they cost and how much moreability do you get with them? Are they full smart phones, with the ability to run all the aqpps a standard smart phone runs? In short, I doubt my feature

And why do you guys insist on evading my question? Don't sit there and tell me that nothing can ever go wrong with an IPhone. Something as simple as a loose battery connection could cause