Owasys 22C Screenless Cellphone

[David Poehlman]

Compared to the oasis, they are complex.  For instance, to sset the  
alarm on my 6620, I have to press the menu bbutton, find the extras  
folder, open it, find the clocck, open it, choose options, activate  
set alarm, type in the digits, clickk done, exit exit....
It's doable, just unweildy.  Of course, that's an unfaiir comparison,  
the oasis has no alarm.  HHowever, my main ppoint of comparison is  
that the oasis is simple and basic and embedded.  My 6620 is feature  
rich but complex and had to have talks loaded on it.

On Jul 19, 2006, at 3:25 PM, Farhan wrote:

How are the menus complex in a symbian based phone?
I'm not trying  to attack you or anything, i'm generally curious, I  
had know problem figuring out how to use my phone the first day I got  
it.
On 7/19/2006 at 14:24 David Poehlman said
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
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From: "David Poehlman" <david.poehlman at handsontechnologeyes.com>
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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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