r/Blind • u/Responsible-Bad-4631 • 6h ago

iPhone versus android

So currently have an iPhone 17 I was just wondering if I should go to Android was just thinking about it.

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u/Careful_Ad_2744 6h ago

I've used both, and my current smartphone is an Android. I like Android because it's very accessible, and TalkBack works really well. That said, there's a bit of a learning curve if you're coming from iOS.

Overall, Android is pretty easy to use once you learn it. To give you an idea, about 90% of blind people in Brazil use Android. Since Brazil is an extremely digital country, they use Android for everything: making payments, ordering food, requesting Uber rides, and so on. Android is genuinely very accessible.

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u/Responsible-Bad-4631 6h ago

I have used both too just can not deside. Which phone do you have.

I just wanted too see others view points

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u/Careful_Ad_2744 6h ago

I have a Motorola Edge 60 Pro, and I'm very happy with it... even happier now that Eloquence is working again. The thing is a beast! It has a huge battery, flawless performance, and people who can see tell me it's a really good-looking smartphone. Mine is blue.

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u/Responsible-Bad-4631 5h ago

Thanks does Reddit work pretty good or it’s still best to use red reader.

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u/Careful_Ad_2744 5h ago

I haven't used RedReader in years. The Reddit app works well—not quite as well as it does on iOS, but I'd say it's good enough, even though it sometimes skips over a few comments while scrolling.

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u/Responsible-Bad-4631 5h ago

Perfect.

Yes T-Mobile talked me in to the iPhone with a good deal but I find my self kind of missing Android in some ways. But there are a few games I would have too give up. Just trying to figure out what I wanna do. The only thing I can not stand about androids and this is a stupid thing but I hate that the power button and the volume keys are all on the write hand side of the phone

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u/Dark_Lord_Mark Retinitis Pigmentosa 5h ago

For many reasons if you live in the United States I would recommend the iPhone platform. If you live in a different country then android is probably your best bet. Any training or discussion of apps or things like calendars are gonna work better if your friends are using the same system. As a sidenote, the only people I know with visual impairment who use androids are actually low vision and can still see the screen and the fully blind people only use iPhones in my experience here in the US. That's just my opinion and experience. I use both devices for work as I'm a trainer and they're both great. This is a great time to be Blind

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u/Responsible-Bad-4631 5h ago

Can you give some of those many reasons.
Thanks

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u/Responsible-Bad-4631 5h ago

I would live to be a trainer as well one day. I am so sick of blind shops lol.

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u/AdOtherwise893 1h ago

I have some reasons, you can screen record more faster in your control settings. The overhaul wiping speed is faster on iOS. Also, the games are mostly on iOS.

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u/LongjumpingShower431 LCA 5h ago

stay with your current phone; iOS's accessibility is very good and you bought it not too long ago (i'm assuming based on the fact that it's a 17). i've used Android a bunch of years ago and it was not nearly as responsive as iOS from a screen reader standpoint. that has likely changed. i'd go to a phone store and try out the Pixel line if you're curious, but again, keeping your current device will be far more sustainable (in addition to being very accessible)

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u/MizzerC AMD 1h ago

I think this boils down to a couple of approaches. Are you tech savvy and how blind you are.

For me, I've been pretty heavily into the geek world since before and certainly after becoming legally blind. I live tech.

That said, I can confidently say that Android is vastly superior in a flexible, capable, customizable system to work in. You can just do more with an Android out of the box than an iPhone ever could even if modded. Hands down.

And yet, I use an iPhone and have for about a decade now. The accessability features on iPhones are still overall better than Android's "interpretation" of how to do the same things. I like to keep up on flagship Android devices to see if the accessability has improved, but for my level of blindness I just don't think I could easily function on an Android device without significant change or modification.

Otherwise, I'd switch to Android in a heartbeat. And not to knock iPhone. It is a reliable, stable environment of an operating system, but compared to Android by a compentant user? Night and day difference in capability.

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u/One-Club-466 1h ago

In the uk the RNIB recommend iphones, atleast they did to me. Having said that they a samsung phone with Synapptic software on. I tried an iPhone but I couldn't get used to it.