While Nokia may yet support CDMA in its Symbian devices, it does not yet do so. Neither does anyone else. Toby Fisher writes: > From: Toby Fisher <toby at tjfisher.co.uk> > > On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Steve Holmes wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 10:48:39PM +0000, Toby Fisher wrote: > > > It has nothing to do with the carrier - Talx will only run on phones using > > > the Simbion operating system, which are those at the high end, though this > > > may change with time as features trickle down to the cheaper end of the > > > market. > > > > > Well right now, it does indeed make a difference. I don't know of a > > single Simbion phone that runs on a CDMA network so if your provider > > only does CDMA and not GSM, that phone is truely off limits! > > Yes, but my point is, that from a technical stand-point, Simbion is the > important thing, i.e. it could well be just a decision by your network > provider not to carry those phones, or you may be right, those phones may > not be able to run on your network, but I won't start a flame war about > you guys in the US and mobile phone standards... > > > One other deal; if only available on expensive PDA's and > if the > software costs over $200 or $300, then this is not an affordable > > solution for accessibility! It may be a solution but anyone on a > > typical budget could never afford it. > > I quite agree. It has amazed me somewhat that none of you guys have used > the ADA to fight this. We are constrained over here because there's some > European law that exempts electronic devices from disability legislation - > I'm currently trying to find out why this came in and if it can't be > overturned, it may be possible to use human rights legislation in this > case, but that's for the lawyers. > > Cheers. > > -- > Toby Fisher Email: toby at tjfisher.co.uk > Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 > ICQ: #61744808 > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Email: janina at rednote.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Director, Technology Research and Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) http://www.afb.org Chair, Accessibility Work Group Free Standards Group http://accessibility.freestandards.org
