[access-uk] Re: IPhone Cost
- From: "Howie, Sam" <Sam.Howie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 14:36:07 +0100
Adrian
Way out my price range
Sam
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Adrian Higginbotham
Sent: 09 June 2009 14:27
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: IPhone Cost
£35 a month is on the current generation. the o2 tariffs are a bit complex but
to get the new Iphone 3gs handset for free you'd need to be on a £75 a month
contract. if you wanted to go pay as you go then the handset will cost approach
£445 for the 16gb model, more for the 32gb.
and you don't get all the featrues if you opt for pay as you go.
Adrian Higginbotham,
Manager, Leading edge research
Tel: Direct dial 024 7679 7333 - Becta switchboard 02476-416994
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Howie, Sam
Sent: 09 June 2009 14:17
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] IPhone Cost
Hi Everyone
All be it some people may like the idea of the Iphone but the cost has to be
taken into consideration (approximately £35 a month on an 18 month contract)
and as far as I'm aware it is still only available on the O2 network Sam
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Tristram Llewellyn
Sent: 09 June 2009 13:34
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: IPhone
I am not anti-Apple (I own a machine or two and an iPod Touch and a regular Mac
OS user) but I am unconvinced that a touchscreen can be a right interface for
someone with no sight whatever. Even magnification is problematic on the
iPhone/Touch given the size and the fact it is a touchscreen. I am also
uncertain how what is intended to be in parts a gestural interface will work
out in practice for those users who cannot see at all. Clearly the efforts on
the iPhone are an outgrowth of their use of OS X (or at least a scaled down
versio of it), work to make the device speak for use in the gym or GPS
navigation and leveraging their multi-touch technology to provider a more
sophisticated touchscreen interface.
As for the pace of development I would say that this is a cost of mainstream
providers taking on this role as opposed to specialist providers. Apple
recieves no extra money and therefore have limits on the manpower they have to
extend into accessibility improvements which form only a very small part of
their total priority list. Not only this but it more or less kills any kind of
third party market that may be able to drive the pace forward sufficiently for
the market of those users who depend on those accessibility improvements,
particularly as they relate to the desktop operating system such as Mac OS.
The development of accessibility on Mac OS can be described as steady but slow
and there are still things missing from it that Windows users take for granted
with their favourite accessibility product.
It will take me a little while to absorb the news that has emerged and still
later before I could try anything out and I think that is where the real
knowledge will come from rather than the blurb that is currently provided.
Regards.
Tristram Llewellyn
Sight and Sound Technology
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www.sightandsound.co.uk
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