Use E65 from Nokia, previously used an NGage. What can I say? It's a phone, I use it mostly for emergencies. I've been known to use the wi fi for odd bits of surfing or email without having to boot my PC though. It also makes a passable media player if you don't have anything else with you, and I can put pics on it to show people say of the cat or something. I used to occasionally put a pic of something on my NGage if I wanted an opinion on it, rather than lugging my laptop downstairs. Handy when design is significant, when you're looking for something specific in an item. Can't think of any examples right now though I'm afraid.

I suppose the Owasys would be okay for older people, but I wouldn't recommend it for a younger VI person. It has very rudimentary abilities from what I have read, and a symbion set up with talks wasn't that much more in the past. Being able to set your ringtone form a bigger choice is useful, along with the profiles letting you swap volume levels and tone more easily for different environments.

From what I read the iPhone seems interesting, though I would be concerned it'd make me a target for muggings. More than a symbion phone anyway. I recall hearing people were targetted for muggings if they were using the distinctive iPod earbuds in the past, which makes me think an iPhone would be an even bigger target. There is advice not to use your phone in public, but sometimes you just have to drop a text message to someone letting them know you'll be late or something like that.

To me a phone is a phone wich is the reason I'm still using a n6620. Plus the
Owasys 22C, from my point of view, caust to much for a phone that does what it does. I do hate the keypad of my phone, but I put most of the numbers I call in the phonebook in the first place. from what I saw, the keypad is small on what ever phone you get. Anyway, what can I say. Talks reads the emportant info to me, like the caller ID, and the strength meters.

Now there's the difference... To me, a phone is a small multimedia / personal computer, and so I use it that way. I am on a contract, so I will have to wait another year to get a new device, which will probably be another Nokia Symbian phone.

Some of the places I go, voice promps won't work quite right. so speech navigation threw the menu is a must, although I use a phone for the calling. Back in 2006 when I got my phone, the disibility department of singular was really pushing the N6620. I'm on the same family plan with other membors of my family, so I could save money while going threw colladge. Anyway, singular wich now att was asked about the
Owasys 22C and they acted like they didn't have it working quite right with their network. I forget wich was free, the phone or talks. Talks on my phone is v1.4 something, so that should tell you something. Trust me, that talks was out of date then too. The reason why I haven't really started looking for a new phone is do to the fact mine hasn't quit on me yet. Although, It has froze on me a few times, like during a call or while I was doing something else. I really would like to do some of the things talked about so far, but guess what, I'm low on money. I also would like to give att a few choice words on tethering too, but I don't really feel like causing trouble. Oops, wrong topic for that.

I feel rather outclassed. My phone is a bog standard nockier thing with absolutely no access features on whatsoever. I can turn it on, ring numbers, and check voice messages with another number, and as it onloy cost about twenty quid I won't cry if it gets lost.

For phone book, voice memo etc, I have my nice litle parrot voicemate.

I did actually considder getting a pda or I phone, ----- but it seemed a lot of money for practically what I'd use it for, ---- which is phoning people, ---- especially considdering I usually have my laptop on me anyway.

Well I do make social phone calls, in fact because of the way my phone charges stack up it's always cheaper for me to call people with mobiles using the free minutes on my mobile.

I will admit texts could be handy for speed on occasion, but the pricing for mobile speech software, pluss appropriate hardware seemed quite a lot for the bennifit I'd get out of it, ---- besides, anyone who knows me knows well enough not to bother texting me.

Usually it doesn't come up anyway, sinse most of the time I'll have either my laptop or desktop handy, ---- even on long train journeys or when I go to buxton in August for the international light opera festival (there's a very nice litle pub with a surprisingly fast wireless net connection).

Thanks for that tip about the Owasys CX. that good to know. I'm one of those odd ones who don't text at all and call only when I really want to talk to someone. I figure that if you want to tell me something, you will IM, email, or call me. Then again you would put a message up on a form, such as this one, if you don't have any other way of telling me what needs to be said. Of corse I don't have any data plan, because I really want to keep caust down and have plinty of time away from the net too. we all know how many hotspots there are and I carry my laptop and PDA aka PACMate to alot of places with me. It's interesting how many phones are used and for all the different reasons for using them.

Myself I've always been quite clumsy, so dialling on a phone without feedback was a nightmare. I also had trouble remembering the number for the taxi company back when I was at college, on the occasions they forgot to pick me up. Yes they actually forgot once, then pretended the taxi had already been on its way.

I find texts more useful than voice calls because it's more reliable to contact for example my mother with them. If I text her she'll get it sooner or later, apart from when she has her phone off which drives me mad, but in those cases I would rarely get a response from the landline phone either. Leaving a message on her voicemail is a no as well since she always complains it costs her money to retreive it, and if her phone was off it would be just as well to text... plus the fact taht I'd never remember her mobile number in a million years.

The times I've needed my phone tend to be when I don't have another talking device on hand, even if I trusted myself to dial accurately. I also used only a demo version of Talks for a long time, it being perfectly adequate for my needs.

I had so many phones before my n70 that I could have fun with. do voice recordings, call people, or change my ringtone. then I got my Soni ericson phone and  I learned on how to transfer music via infar red then via the USB cable.
but I was constantly looking into a talking phone. well, I got it in febuary of 2008. that was when my life changed. I'll never forget my first sms message to my dad who is in sweden.
locally I knew what letters were under which key and I had no problems dialing with out feedback though I found the dtmf tones gave enough feedback after I learned what tone is what number.