-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yeah, I agree totally. There is of course the screenless phone, oasys (spelling) 2200 I think. It does cost the same amount as one of the higher-end phones plus talx, assuming you don't want the 2-year new plan with tmobile, which I myself don't. So, from my point of view, the real distinction is not the price, but whether you want a phone that can do things such as e-mail, web browsing, ETC., and is from what I hear mostly functional with speech, or if you want a simple phone that can just do calls and text messaging, but is fully accessible from startup to shutdown, and designed specifically for the blind. I guess the only other plus for the screenless phone is that it does have a serial cable, is gnu/linux based, and will have an sdk for it, if it doesn't already have one. So, it has the potential to surpass the other option I suppose in terms of what it can do, but as far as I know, it's not there yet. Ok, rant over for me as well. Greg On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 02:19:57AM -0500, Lorenzo Taylor wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > <rant> > And all for the incredibly low price of only $295. So in order to have > a phone I can actually do more than just dial numbers on, not only do I > have to get one of the most expensive phones in the store, but I then > have to pay an additional $295. But the rest of the world gets their > phones for as little as ... ehhem ... free. Did somebody say ripoff? > Give me an open source screen reader for my phone. I mean someone is > actually developing a free open source screen reader for Winblows now. > Is it so hard to do it for the phone too? Hmm. Maybe I could get one > of those new Linux-powered phones. Maybe Speakup can work with it. > That would be very nice. I would have to get a more expensive phone, > but I would support free and open source software in the process. > </rant> > - -- > I've always found anomalies to be very relaxing. It's a curse. > - --Jadzia Dax: Star Trek Deep Space Nine (The Assignment) > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFF6nMcG9IpekrhBfIRApd2AKCIZ5iFDGwgF2hoqAhCQDcNDgs5YwCeJ1qQ > j9j+aWBR+YwS7M0tUcGeeRc= > =bgZu > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF6zeX7s9z/XlyUyARAlIFAKCy91q/ggTo3EDy82J2fv7TfGdj+gCgmOvH 5KNGC5ClgblJ/QvdYSU8xoU= =1L8o -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
