Hi All.
Yes, manufacturers take their time releasing the updates, but the galaxy
S3 should shortly have jellybean if it hasn't already. Jellybean is
technically still in the development stages for some manufacturers. I
have personally had experience with upgrading samsung and HTC phones.
the process is relatively straight forward if the manufacturer, samsung
for example have released updates for their handsets. if they haven't,
you have to install what is known as a custom rom. there are varius
custom roms available, personally i will only install stable roms for
people. these roms have the advantage of not having the manufacturer
software included. lets take a laptop for example. when you buy it, you
get all this helpful software which you never use. that's the same with
a phone. On HTC handsets, their software is called HTC sense. i modified
a HTC ChaCha yesterday to disable the software and the phone is running
a lot smoother now!
My final point is that if you find after a year they haven't released
jellybean for your handset, you could probably upgrade it. I have to say
though that icecream sandwitch accessibility is outstanding. I have been
able to use apps such as iPlayer with no problem at all on my samsung
galaxy S, a handset which was never meant to have icecream sandwitch
according to samsung! Needless to say none of the samsung software is
installed. My recommendation to anyone on list is if you're buying an
android phone, by a samsung handset. I have used both samsung and HTC
and much prefer samsung. HTC handsets can sometimes be locked down,
making it harder to get root access to modify them. Samsung handsets are
a joy to work with, and you can easily install other roms/remove
software. I haven't used any sony handsets so am unsure what their
policy is, but they probably take the same approach as HTC in terms of
security. Manufacturers generally don't like you modifying their images,
which makes me all the more determined to make my devices and the
devices i supply as accessible as possible.
all the best,
Mo.
On 18/07/2012 12:21, william lomas wrote:
no but if you buy it on o2 it is unlocked, the phone, friend has it
On 18 Jul 2012, at 12:18, "Vince
Thacker"<vince@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Will, I think the trouble with new versions of Android is that the
various carriers are so slow in getting them out to the phones. Ice
Cream Sandwich was released last autumn, so why the devil hasn't it
made it to all the devices that were promised by the various people
who flog the phones? The Sony Xperia series is a case in point.
Vince.
----- Original Message ----- From: "william
lomas"<will.d.lomas@xxxxxxxxx>
To:<access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 9:52 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: sight village and a look at android.
I find it odd that the newer samsung s3 has no jellybean OS yet an
older out of date phone can get it no questions asked?
On 18 Jul 2012, at 09:33, John Gallagher<john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi all,
Yesterday I was at sight village on our chess stand. we showed how
a blind person plays chess and I demonstrated the shredder app on
the i-phone. this app is totally accessible to play chess and look
at games from the chess database.
I went over to see Steve Nut and looked at his android phone.
firstly on serotek there is an android podcast which I find very
good indeed.
I found it very difficult to hear any speech on any device at sight
village as it was too noisey. I did like Steves nexus phone though
and with jelly bean you can connect a braille device.
Ed you are correct with all your questions with android. on blind
cool tech Mike areego has some great podcasts on android.
all this ice cream sandwitch and jelly bean are updates to the os.
Steves phone was like the iphone and I could get about on the
screen o.k.
our difficulty is when you get a phone it is getting it to talk
from out of the box.
I understand with jelly bean you can circle two fingers round on
the screen to augment the accessability.
the phones are not as expensive as the iphone but different phones
and carriers may not have the latest update.
I may be wrong but the new samsung s iii has not got jelly bean.
all this is very new and is moving at the rate of notts and is
difficult for sighted people to keep up with never mind us.
the gps is better on the android phone as the google maps work
faster and seem more accessible.
of course it would be nice to try things out but this may not be
possible.
the new product from sight and sound was shown yesterday but for
three hundred pouunds then £29 per app is expensive when if you
take the time to learn the phone better apps are out there which we
can use.
I am looking for a second phone to my iphone and I am not sure what
to go for.
if you go for a tablet how can you have gps you cannot so I will go
for a phone.
I hope this is some help to some of you and if sendero bring out
there gps software for the iphone or android that will be a must
for me.
cheers then.
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