Dear AmiyoDa
As Harish Suggested, it would be best that you could join access-India
mobile mailing list. There you would be able to get many tips and tricks
to
get the most on your phone and also advice on trouble shooting.
I will put in some of my thoughts below:
There is no harm in writing to Nokia about continuing with C5. How ever,
they have left the complete platform of Symbian Series 60 phones. This
makes
more difficult to gat a full batch of a model out in market. They would
create at least few million phones of one model which has support,
distribution and all different issues attached to it. Such a majour
decision
to come out with one more Symbian series 60 phone would be a very big
decision and may not be taken in India and we may need to go to Finland
for
it. Organisations such as RNIB etc. are already in touch with them but for
an issue that they should make their windows phones accessible. Most of VI
in Europe and north America have shifted to IPone thus there is not so
much
pressure from those countries for keypad phone such as C5.
For few years to come we will continue to get second hand phones of C5 or
E5. These would work well for now and may also be cheeper option.
Android phones are doing quite good now. It iscomparitively more time
taking
to dial or typeon touch screen than on keypad. How ever, rest of functions
are more accessible and they will get better in time to come.
Off an don we will keep getting some android phones with keypad also.
Samsung chat was one of such models. Micromax too had a model like that.
They areboth, with toch screen and keypad.
There are some good keypadblackberry phones. I do not expect enhancements
such as Indian languages or goodaccessible navigationor book playback
coming
on it though.
Most of our future research and development is concentrated on android
platform and it is for following direction:
Getting a numeric keypad phone
Simple to use interface on touch screen
Bluetooth keypad and set of applications that can give you easy to use
experience.
It is not a bad idea to start playing with touch screens as this reality
is
not going to be reversed and we will always have better options on touch
screen based deices. Touch screen devices also have good voice
recognition
facility. Thus we may be able to make some real use of voice commands
instead of keyboard in recent future.
Example, I have switched to voice command on android phone to set an
alarm.
I just have to say se talarm for 5:30 AM and it does so without any
problem.
Thanks
Dipendra
-----Original Message-----
From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On
Behalf
Of harish
Sent: 28 July 2013 16:14
To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
Subject: Re: [AI] Cry for Mobile Handset with Keypad.
Amiyo
Many blind persons have already moved out of Symbian / Nokia phones.
We have made the Mobile Accessibility list especially catering to this
requirement.
You don't need to get worked up on it. However, do take extra care of your
existing Symbian phones so the transition fobia is pushed forward and you
get more accessible device then.
Garnering support for C5 is not a bad idea at all. However, the new
commers
to mobile phone would be more benefited with the newer OS as they don't
have
to unlearn something.
Harish.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Amiyo Biswas" <amiyo.bis...@gmail.com>
To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in>
Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2013 8:47 AM
Subject: [AI] Cry for Mobile Handset with Keypad.
Hello,
Many of my friends in West Bengal and Tripura are looking for
Talks-compatible handsets with keypad. Can Saksham make some arrangements
with Nokia? I am using this forum for support from other members. I am
also afraid, if I lose my present handset, what will happen?
With best regards,
Amiyo Biswas
Cell: +91-9433464329
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