Benefits of an iPhone
- The iPhone enables you to take advantage of online services, for example, banking, news, music, searching for information, reading books online, email, weather, etc.
- The iPhone gives you the same technology as many of your blind friends who have already embraced the iPhone as their technological Swiss Army Knife of choice.
- The iPhone demonstrates conclusively that the blind can operate a touchscreen device that has been properly designed for nonvisual use.
- The iPhone can tell you who is calling before you answer the call.
- The iPhone can help you keep track of recent calls made and/or received, and you can easily return a missed call.
- The iPhone offers a dictation system that enables you to make calls to people in your contact list, call specific phone numbers that you already know, dictate emails and text messages, and ask questions that may or may not result in useful answers.
- The iPhone can run a GPS system that you can use to direct drivers to where you want to go if you pay for a good GPS app.
- The iPhone has a free built-in compass which is quite useful in places where there are no good landmarks.
- With a ten-dollar app, the iPhone can read paper currency; this app can even read foreign paper currency.
- The iPhone is a great music player and also good for streaming radio.
- With the iPhone, you can read digital talking books and electronic Braille books from the National Library Service of the Library of Congress.
- The iPhone can be used to read books from Audible.com and Kindle books from Amazon. It can also read books from a variety of other sources—including Learning Ally and Bookshare.
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