Hi Tracy,
Depending on your scenario you may not need a sim cutter. I recently
upgraded from a 3GS to a 4S using the same carrier (AT&T here in the US) and
the microsim card was apparently coded to my phone number and installed in
China. From your price quotes, however you may be in the market for
unlocked devices with no commitment -- or perhaps the prices are much higher
in the UK?
Best regards.
Geoff
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From: "Tracy Thompson" <tr...@the-wacky-workshop.co.uk>
To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <mac-access@mac-access.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: iPhone 4S; is it really worthwhile?
Hello Bubba, this is Tracy.
Thank you for your perspective on this it is an interesting one. Actually
though I am visually abled as Lynne calls it, sighted as a lot of others do.
But accessibility and compatibility do come into this because I'd be buying
2 phones for Gordon and myself. I want my own phone to be compatible with
their systems and everything they use here is Apple and that includes the
servers that power this list and everything else here.
The Android phones seem to vary a lot but I've been doing some reading and
it would seem that most of them don't contain any accessible features out of
the box. So I've opted not to go that road because of reasons above.
It is now just a choice between Symbian (for me) and iPhone for Gordon, or
iPhone for both of us. It's looking more likely to be iPhone for us both
which would be 16G for me and 64G for Gordon.
The only thing that annoys me regarding the iPhone is that you don't get any
kind of case or other things with it. You have to pay top prices for those
as well so it is going to work out expensive. So we'll see how we go. Again
thank you for the info regarding the SIM cutter which I didn't know exists.
Tracy Thompson
On 16 Nov 2011, at 16:52, Bubba wrote:
This is not a problem with the simm card as you can get a cutter to cut his
card down to fit the new iPhone and also a adapter to make a micro simm fit
in place of a regular simm . As for which phone to get if you are a seeing
person I guess this would be preface as accessibility does not come into
play. I am a big iPhone fan but this is because of the accessibility factor!
If you Google for simm cutter and adapter you will find them just about
everywhere. I think they are about 10 to 25 bucks for a set . So back to
which phone to get if blind or with other handicap I would say the iPhone is
the only way to go when accessibility comes into play as of now. If
Accessibility does not come into play then it is a matter of budget and not
wanting to be locked to apple app approval! If I was going to buy a iPhone
right now I would not even think of buying anything but the 4s! But this is
my JMO! HTH
Sign,
Bubba
bubbatheg...@gmail.com
-----Original Message-----
From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net
[mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Tracy Thompson
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 11:40 AM
To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility
Subject: iPhone 4S; is it really worthwhile?
Hello group
I hope you don't mind me posting this here as I'm not blind or visually
impaired. Lynne and Gordon have told me that the list is not only for the
visually impaired so I thought I would post.
I currently have a Samsung Symbian phone, (so I'm told), and it's dying
rapidly. I've had this phone for about 2 years and it's been dropped several
times.
Anyway, I am seriously considering moving over to the Apple phone because
I've seen Gordon and Lynne's phone and seen it in use. It's only a 3GS which
brings me to my next question. I'm contemplating buying 1 for myself and
also 1 for Gordon as a Christmas present. But I am told that the iPhone 4S
doesn't use the same SIM card as the 3GS does. I gather it is meant for a
micro-SIM.
So how difficult would it be to get hold of a new SIM without changing the
phone number on Gordon's 3GS? I know a lot of you are outside of the UK and
things are different. When I worked in Sydney and New York for a while the
environments were very different. But that's another discussion for a
different place. What I nee is an objective view as to whether this would be
a good buy or whether I should just look at something else. Yes I have
looked at a few Android phones and yes some of them look quite attractive.
But as I live with Gordon and lynne I really want compatibility with what
they use so that they can share things with me and visa versa.
I'm looking at the 64G version of iPhone 4S which costs £699.00 from the
Apple Store and about £800 Pounds from other places. Any constructive
comment is very welcome, with thanks.
Tracy Thompson
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