Hi Bruce. I know you and I don't talk much, but let me explain my reasons for choosing the iPhone, and now another one. For years, I was fine with the sending and receiving of calls. But when I thought I needed to, I asked for sighted help deleting the calls. I had nothing to hide, but I felt it was a privacy issue. Whom else do you know that I know of, who asks, Excuse me, would you see whom I'm calling and delete who I told you too? Like [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] I chose Mobile speak. At the time they ran a deal wherein I could get the software for $89 including installation so it spoke out of the box. When I had used it for some time and began texting, I felt renewed I could use the phone as a sighted person does. When I was going to upgrade however, price came into consideration. I could get another term with Mobile speak, for the eighty bucks, except if I wanted a voice other then Dectalk, I needed to pay 100 dollars more. So now the simple eighty bucks went to nearly two hundred. I could live with Dectalk, however when the opportunity was given, I would've changed the voice. So when the 3GS came out, I decided it was ten dollars more to try out this. I did play with an iPhone in store and admittedly I wasn't sure I could use it. But when my cousin offered to pay for half, I went for it. Like Shazza I have apps I like, don't like, and there are some I wouldn't spend the exorbitent amount they might want. In future, I will always embrace new technology. I'm sorry to say this, but those who try and stay behind the times, now can't do that anymore. I'm also not saying you're behind the times, I wanted to make that clear. Your our decision is just that, yours. If you do go with the iPhone, good luck and I, or anyone, will be glad to help. I hope I've given you something to think about. Siobhan
My own thoughts for what they mean.
For years, I was fine with the sending and receiving of calls. But when I thought I needed to, I asked for sighted help deleting the calls. I had nothing to hide, but I felt it was a privacy issue. Whom else do you know that I know of, who asks, Excuse me, would you see whom I'm calling and delete who I told you too? Like [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] I chose Mobile speak. At the time they ran a deal wherein I could get the software for $89 including installation so it spoke out of the box. When I had used it for some time and began texting, I felt renewed I could use the phone as a sighted person does. When I was going to upgrade however, price came into consideration.
I could get another term with Mobile speak, for the eighty bucks, except if I wanted a voice other then Dectalk, I needed to pay 100 dollars more. So now the simple eighty bucks went to nearly two hundred. I could live with Dectalk, however when the opportunity was given, I would've changed the voice. So when the 3GS came out, I decided it was ten dollars more to try out this. I did play with an iPhone in store and admittedly I wasn't sure I could use it. But when my cousin offered to pay for half, I went for it.
Like Shazza I have apps I like, don't like, and there are some I wouldn't spend the exorbitent amount they might want. In future, I will always embrace new technology. I'm sorry to say this, but those who try and stay behind the times, now can't do that anymore. I'm also not saying you're behind the times, I wanted to make that clear. Your our decision is just that, yours. If you do go with the iPhone, good luck and I, or anyone, will be glad to help.
I hope I've given you something to think about.
Siobhan