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.

EyePhone?

[Anonymous Coward]

Sorry...

pointless

[gEvil (beta)]

Why does he want a cellphone if he's blind? I mean, he won't be able to use the camera. He can't send text messages. Can't use it for games or videos. I suppose he could listen to mp3s. What? He wants to make phone calls. Good luck finding a cell phone that's good at that....

Cell phone for the blind

[Anonymous Coward]

The last thing a blind person needs is a cell phone to distract them while they are driving...

Re:blind people need cancer too.

[Anonymous Coward]

YES we need blind people to also have cancer in the head,..

Re:pointless

[PPH]

Maybe Slashdot needs a screen reader that explains jokes for the humor-impaired. ;-)

Re:EyePhone?

[Anonymous Coward]

Let the dog dial it........

Re:EyePhone?

[Helios1182]

On an Apple forum there was a guy who posted about how to best set up an iPhone for his blind wife.