Owasys 22C Screenless Cellphone

[David Poehlman]

Michael,

I also own a nokia 6620 phone.  I use that one too.  The issue I have  
with itt is that it just does too much that I'll never do or not much  
and the layout is complex and the menus are way complex.

On Jul 19, 2006, at 8:04 AM, Michael Whapples wrote:

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.
>

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