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

Gerald, if I dare say so, I think that a trip to a phone store near you in the Big Apple will knock off several of your assumptions relating to smartphones with touchscreens. I'm certain that playing

Gerald, There's no way you don't keep up with mainstream tech, right?Because you should at least know that Apple still has the physical volume/power buttons. Like I said in a much earlier post, If

They do have physical volume buttons and power button. Whoever said they had no physical buttons meant the lack of a home button. No I’m not saying that IOS is so great that nothing can go wrong

Yes, new I phones do have buttons, they no longer have the home button. There are still the volume buttons and the power button. Give it a rest Gerald. You’ll rest easier. There are reasons

Which is precisely why I'd never buy one. I think we owe it to ourselves to use main stream products when possible and avail ourselves of their accessibility features, if for no other reason than that

Why do you insist on deliberately misunderstanding everything that anyone says?

the volume button is on the side of the phone. Same thing for the power button. -- Lenron Brown Cell: 985-271-2832 Skype: ron.brown762

So you are saying that IOS is such a wonderful OS that it is impossible for anything to go wrong and cause complete loss of speech that simple fixes like the ones you suggest won't resolve?