Hi,
I appreciate your take. This is just the sort of discussion I wished to
avoid as you are not me, your communicating patterns are not mine, and I
respect your choice....which has absolute zero to do with my own.
I asked the question based on what I desire...and sought nothing else.
I respect your situation, I respectfully ask that you respect mine.
Thanks for the answer I really did seek,
Karen
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Alex Hall wrote:
I thought the same thing as you: I can't use a touch screen phone - I can't
feel the numbers, so if I can't hear, I can't do anything with it. However, two
things have helped me:
1. You can save everything to contacts on your phone, then just tell Siri to
call a contact name. You can also add contacts to your favorites, a list of
contact numbers you use most that you can use to quickly dial a number. The
advantage of this is that, even if you can barely hear the phone's speaker, you
can be in the right area of the screen, then listen to something as basic as
how long it takes speech to say the item to know if it is the one you want. It
takes getting used to, but I have not yet run into a situation where I could
not make a call. Hint: I often hold the phone with the loudspeaker facing my
ear - if you line it up, you can hear in just about any situation, even if you
don't have headphones.
2. You can save numbers to contacts, even numbers to be dialed after a call goes through.
For example, i saved a conference call number; once the initial call goes through, I hit
the "hide keypad" button and then the button to auto-dial my conference code.
You can also have numbers pressed without needing to hit a button, such as if you know
the sequence to get through a series of menus.
I'll be honest: I do still find using the keypad to select options in phone
menus (like those in stores or banks) annoying at times, but the phone does so
much else so much better that it is a small inconvenience I am happy to put up
with, and many of those times I could alleviate the problem by simply adding
the sequence to a contact if I used that number more often. Really, for the
incredible power and opportunity the iPhone provides, and for how infrequently
I run into a frustration entering a selection in a menu, well, the iPhone is
simply the best phone out there once you take a few weeks to really get it down
pat. No, I have not used an Android phone, but from everything I hear, Apple
still blows them out of the water when it comes to accessibility. Besides, if
you already have a Mac, the syncing that will happen via iCloud between the two
devices makes things really convenient.
On Jun 26, 2013, at 1:30 PM, Cheree Heppe <che...@dogsc4me.com> wrote:
Cheree Heppe here:
Talks or mobile speak recommend button phones which they support.
Regards
Cheree Heppe
Sent from my IPhone 4S
On 26/06/2013, at 9:55, Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net> wrote:
Hi folks,
I do not want one truth be told. My goal is a phone with buttons, and while
some remain available from my provider, I may not end up with much choice lol.
I understand from many using the iphone for dialing that it is slow and a pain.
my questions are two, and very strict ones. do not mistake me, I know it is
fine as a smart device, but I am 100% firm on what I need in a phone only.
My questions are two.
can I do everything entirely by voice? speak the numbers, if for some odd
reason I want to send a text, etc.?
second, if I must add a keyboard for dialing, does one exist? not for typing,
strictly for dialing the phone.
I type 85 words a minute, I do not wish to spend time poking rapidly at a
screen trying to dial the phone.
so, are either of the two work arounds options?
thanks,
Karen
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