Owasys 22C Screenless Cellphone

[Michael Whapples]

There are alternatives to the Owasys which offer the same functionality
(possibly more), such as a symbian phone and talks. Maybe in your case the
cost difference was greater, but for me buying a symbian phone and talks was
only marginly more expensive than a Owasys (my feeling was the little extra
was worth having a phone which has a large user base, should have very few
bugs, and if any updates are needed can be done locally and not mean I will
be without my phone for any significant time, plenty of extras available if
I wanted something for my phone (and not just nokia originals), and the
specialist bit could be removed if there was any problem caused by that
leaving me with
a fully functional phone).

While all that seems very negative about it, I will accept for some an
Owasys may be the correct choice (may be you fall in that category), but
equally I feel that some choose it for the wrong reason (I am struggling to
find quite the wording I want, reasons such as it is what they believe is
accessible to them, because they think things with a screen has been
visually designed so could never be accessible).

I feel I now need to try and restrain myself as I am getting close to my
strong feelings, and I don't really feel this is really sufficiently on
topic for this list. We may just have to agree to differ on this if anyone
disagrees with what I have said.

From
Michael Whapples
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Poehlman" <david.poehlman at handsontechnologeyes.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: Owasys 22C Screenless Cellphone


>I will buy and use off the shelf products when possible.  In our case 
>tthough, we needed the functionality.
>
> It's new, many things start out as new.  Hopefully it'lll catch on  and 
> then we'll have a product we can use that is truly embedded.
>