Cell Phone For the Blind?

brigc writes "Here's one that's got me stumped. A friend of mine who is blind asked me for help tracking down a cell phone for him. He's interested in a flip phone with well-defined separations between the keys, and as much voice control as possible. Battery life is the only other thing he mentioned. Preferably something that would work on AT&T's network in the US. We spent part of the afternoon in a local AT&T store checking out all the flip phones they had and didn't find one he really loved. Anyone have any ideas?" There was a story some months back about a phone that would read to you by interpreting pictures from the built-in camera, but it doesn't have much information about usability. I'm sure it'd be handy to have some sort of text-to-speech option for common cell phone features like caller ID and text messaging, or even just reading menu names.

Comments

let him feel your dong

[Anonymous Coward]

and stroke it. blind people love a little cock.

Get a Mac!

[CmdrPorno]

Apple iPhone - best phone in the world!

iPhone

[SuperKendoll]

Clearly the iPhone is the best phone for the blind. Its' futuristic design and progressive feature set make it the optimal choice regardless of the situation. I'm quite sure that there are several applications on the app store that target blind users. Even if there isn't, there eventually will be, and those apps will be better than the apps offered by other, more primitive, phones. Combine these amazing applications with the iPhone's ergonomic keyboard and you have a match that almost looks like it was designed specifically for the blind.

Furthermore, the iPhone only works on AT&Ts network because Steve Jobs has rid us of the tremendous burden of choice.