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dentotune
Posts: 3
Phone Model:
samsung E700
Service Provider:
T-mobile |
 
Fri Apr 30, 2004 2:17 pm |
Hello ;
I have such an odd thing to ask everybody.......I live in New Jersey and my father is legally blind and he's very good with learning stuff so I bought him a cell phone but now he's faced with the problem that he doesn't know who's calling him..........so I was wondering if anyone has anything to tell me on the subject like a cell phone with a talking caller ID because I wanna help this man because he sure did a lot for me even he was blind..........
I appreciate all the help I can get........thank you
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Bjoern
Posts: 3607
Phone Model:
Nokia E61
Service Provider:
o2 Germany |
Fri Apr 30, 2004 3:39 pm |
| dentotune wrote: | Hello ;
I have such an odd thing to ask everybody.......I live in New Jersey and my father is legally blind and he's very good with learning stuff so I bought him a cell phone but now he's faced with the problem that he doesn't know who's calling him..........so I was wondering if anyone has anything to tell me on the subject like a cell phone with a talking caller ID because I wanna help this man because he sure did a lot for me even he was blind..........
I appreciate all the help I can get........thank you |
Well, I think for Symbian OS Phones it's possible. There might be a phone. The easiest way would be to assign a ringtone especially to each caller and on Symbian OS phones you could use wav-files which might say "Joe is calling" as ringtone.
PocketBabil is a tool by Babel Technologies which allows text-to-speech now on Symbian OS phones.
I saw a report on TV about a special phone for blind people which has a braille interface so blind people could read and write SMS.
http://www.cellular.co.za/news_2003/100903-braile_based_cell_phone_to_ get_s.htm
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dentotune
Posts: 3
Phone Model:
samsung E700
Service Provider:
T-mobile |
Sat May 01, 2004 5:35 pm |
thank you so much for your help.....it looks great with all the awesome features included although I guess it looks a little larger than I thought it would be........but that's not a problem at all..............
thanks again and I just have one last question........isn't there something you can add to a regular phone that'll make it say the incoming phone number outloud ??
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Bjoern
Posts: 3607
Phone Model:
Nokia E61
Service Provider:
o2 Germany |
Sat May 01, 2004 8:56 pm |
| dentotune wrote: | thank you so much for your help.....it looks great with all the awesome features included although I guess it looks a little larger than I thought it would be........but that's not a problem at all..............
thanks again and I just have one last question........isn't there something you can add to a regular phone that'll make it say the incoming phone number outloud ?? |
Only for Symbian OS phones, not for normal ones. What it's called, I don't know.
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dentotune
Posts: 3
Phone Model:
samsung E700
Service Provider:
T-mobile |
Mon May 03, 2004 1:08 am |
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I would like to thank you again...........I guess I know what to look for now......you've been a lot of help...........thanks
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Bjoern
Posts: 3607
Phone Model:
Nokia E61
Service Provider:
o2 Germany |
Mon May 03, 2004 3:03 am |
No problem.
Afaik the braille phone is very expensive (600-700 Euro).
A Symbian OS phone would be the cheaper solution.
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PKfanSteph
Posts: 1
Phone Model:
Motorola e815
Service Provider:
Verizon |
Mon Mar 13, 2006 12:49 am |
Sorry for the belated reply; I just joined and found this thread.
I am legally blind and have this problem as well. What I have done with my Motorola e815 (and T730 before that) is assign different ringtones to each person in my contact list. It's an ad-hoc solution and doesn't cover people who aren't in your contact list, but if you can't afford (or don't want) a new phone, it sure helps!
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