yes if you can suggest some tested model then it will be of great help. Is there any budget 4.1 android in your mind?
On 4/19/13, mukesh jain <mukesh.jai...@gmail.com> wrote: > so what is your decision to buy the phone? please suggest the model > with which we can accomplish most of our task. > thanks, > > On 4/19/13, ishita kapoor <ishitakapoor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> so finally almost all my doubts cleared now. >> Great observation... Thanks for such an informative mail. Even vamshi >> sir will be agree with me, i am sure for that >> >> On 4/19/13, prateek aggarwal <prateekagarwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Folks: >>> during my stay on this list from last few days, I’ve been able to >>> observe that there are quite a lot of confusions in regards to which >>> phone one should buy, and specially the accessibility of android based >>> phones. >>> Being a user of a number of phones right from symbian second edition >>> to the smartphone breeds, I thought to answer the questions based on >>> my personal observations and experiences if they can help someone in >>> some ways. >>> Like vamshi bro pointed out, choosing a suitable phone has really >>> become million dollar question these days keeping in mind: >>> I phone(costly), Nokia (outdated), Android(confusing) etc. >>> iPhone, particularly is indeed very accessible, but its far too costly >>> than most users shall appreciate to buy. Hence, I’d like to >>> specifically focus on whether one should buy nokia or android, and >>> what specific things one should keep in mind in order to choose an >>> android phone. >>> >>> well, the answer to that question is indeed difficult, and actually >>> quite subjective to the choice and circumstances of every >>> individual. >>> say, for instance, those who do not have much time/interest to >>> explore and just require a solution that's tried and tested, >>> some phones of nokia are still available in the stock unofficially, >>> that they can buy and start using right away. >>> it, however is the reality that symbian is no more available and >>> no further such phones are being manufactured by the company >>> anymore. therefore, android is the best option keeping the >>> availability, cost and accessibility in mind. about android >>> version, both 4.0 and 4.1 are accessible, none of them is 100% >>> accessible though. >>> well you have to accept the fact that android is comparitively new >>> and while i personally appreciate google's efforts of implementing >>> out of the box accessibility features, it'll obviously take time to >>> jell with the expectations of the visually challenged individuals who >>> as well have diverse needs/requirements depending on their >>> environments and demographics. >>> >>> so, if you choose to buy the android phone, keep the following things >>> in >>> mind: >>> >>> •whatever someone might claim, no android phone is 100 percent >>> accessible as of now, though the statement depends on what tasks you >>> would like to perform with your phone, as a lot of them shall be >>> accessible and a lot of them won't be. >>> >>> •android requires the user to have quite a learning curve and the >>> patience as one might need to install, try and test with a number of >>> third party apps in order to get some tasks done. so if you are not >>> interested/motivated for the same, reconsider your decision. >>> >>> •most of the android based phones that you'll find in the market are >>> touchscreen based. while the android certainly has accessibility >>> features to enable users to use touch screen with >>> screenreaders/magnification applications, i can tell you out of my >>> personal experiences that the best speed and comfort that you can find >>> is to have the phone that has both touch and type available, although >>> i'm fortunate to be able to use 100 percent touchscreen phones as well >>> with quite a reasonable speed. >>> >>> •the tasks like messaging, contacts, phone, music, camera etc are over >>> 90 percent accessible in my experience. >>> •Log is slightly inaccessible in comparision to nokia phone, but still >>> manageable. >>> •GPS works fairly good, and the support of google maps is excellent. >>> •fm radio is slightly inaccessible, internet radios are manageable >>> with the help of third party apps. >>> •There are apps available for emailing, facebook, twitter, skype, call >>> recording, dictionary, daisy book reading and other such basic tasks, >>> which are reasonaablly accessible. >>> •reading word, excel and pdf document is not much accessible as yet. >>> •there are apps for colour identification, face recognition, OCR etc >>> which though are not perfectly developed as yet, but certainly looks >>> promising. >>> >>> •the versions of android shall keep improving, and they really have >>> to. however, the accessibility available in android 4.0 and 4.1 is >>> quite reasonable, and either of them can be chosen with no hezitations >>> as such. even the 4.0, for instance provides you quite a number of >>> options to use the phone accessiblly, and 4.1. only adds the icing on >>> the cake. personally, i did not find much of a difference in 4.1 and >>> 4.2 though. >>> >>> •considering the fact that android does have the in-built >>> accessibility options available, most of the phones that you buy from >>> the market should be usable without much of a configguration. though, >>> i personally found out that some phones of HTC and LG were using a >>> broken accessibility architecture, and did have issues that are not >>> found in many of the companion phones. >>> >>> •rs. 10 to 12 thousand is quite a reasonable amount to obtain a good >>> android phone. fortunately, you've got plenty of options and brands >>> available to choose from, and i don't see a reason why you shouldn't >>> be able to get a good phone with reasonable features in this amount. >>> >>> in a nutshell, the decision to buy or not buy android is completely >>> subjective depending on the above points, and if you've got the >>> courage, learning curve, need and excitement of using an android based >>> phone, go for one, and you'll definetly enjoy it. >>> technologies are changing fast, and android is the most latest option >>> for any mobile buyers including visually impaired individuals if they >>> have to step with the changing trends. particularly about visually >>> impaired persons, i personally advise to go for it if you can, as the >>> feedback from most possible users can only make the good things >>> happened, and only then we, as a group of visually impaired >>> individuals shall be able to turn the stones in our favor by getting >>> more features implemented both by google as well as the third parties. >>> >>> I don’t know if the above lengthy email has helped anyone of you, but >>> if it has helped in any little way, please feel free to write back >>> for anymore questions/queries/doubt that you may have, where you feel >>> that I can help you with. >>> Please understand that above points are based only on my personal >>> observations and experiences which are of course limited and they may >>> or may not be true in your context. >>> Thank you for reading my such a lengthy email, and I’ll be happy to >>> learn from your experiences as well. Please write back with your >>> experiences especially if they add or correct something to my >>> observations written above. >>> Regards, >>> Prateek agarwal. >>> CEO, >>> Daedal technovations pvt. Ltd. >>> www.daedaltechnovations.com >>> >>> Search for previous postings at: >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/mobile.accessindia@accessindia.org.in >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mobile.accessindia mailing list >>> Mobile.accessindia@accessindia.org.in >>> http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in >>> >>> to post send mail to: mobile.accessindia@accessindia.org.in >>> >> >> Search for previous postings at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/mobile.accessindia@accessindia.org.in >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mobile.accessindia mailing list >> Mobile.accessindia@accessindia.org.in >> http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in >> >> to post send mail to: mobile.accessindia@accessindia.org.in >> > > > -- > Regards, > Mukesh jain > Email: > mukesh.jai...@gmail.com > muk...@mukeshjain.org > mailing list run by me (info page): > http://mail.mukeshjain.org/mailman/listinfo > > website: > www.mukeshjain.org > Skype: mukeshjain211 > Mob: 09977165123 > "Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them > master you. 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