Beginning in July, Odin Mobile will offer cell phone service for blind persons and people who visually impaired, including innovative accessible handsets. The Odin wireless service uses the T-Mobile network.
Adaptive handsets include the RAY Huawei Vision ($299.99)that offers eye-free operation, voice calling , SMS, contacts, calendar, GPS, voice recorder, emergency calling and audio books.
Deaf people and those hard of hearing can't rely on calling 911 when they have an emergency. Marlee Matlin appeared at the Intrado booth during CTIA to advocate text to 911.
Intrado was a finalist in the CTIA Emerging Technology Awards. The nation’s Tier 1 carriers have committed to fully implementing text-to-9-1-1 services but have not implemented a system, yet.
Intrado offers TXT29-1-1 to provide 9-1-1 text-messaging capabilities. Standard text messaging is used to directly notify authorities of emergencies.
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We finally have confirmation on the latest deals from Boost and Virgin Mobile for Cyber Monday and beyond.
We've found out what kinds of Cyber Monday deals for Cyber Monday and Cyber Week. They are almost as good as the Black Friday deals with some just for Monday only.
HTC now allows unlocking of the bootloader for some of the latest model smartphones including the HTC Amaze, EVO 3D, EVO Design and Sensation 4G.
Unlocking allows the loading of non-market apps and is generally used by developers. Please note that unlocking your HTC smartphone will void the warranty. Many of the unlockable smartphones appear in the Wireless and Mobile News' top ten best hottest coolest smartphones of the year list.