By: chaplinj

chaplinj — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:36:27 +0000

As a person who has just recently gone deaf, I’d never used a text device before, I used to be on the phone at work 8 hours a day so the last thing I wanted was another portable demon in my pocket chirping, ringing and buzzing, so never thought of any communicative devices other than the basic cell phone, which, like I said, was tied to my ear 8+ hours a day.
Well, those days are history and I’m about to embark on a new world of text messaging, or at least I hope I will. To look at the exorbidant cost of these devices, not to mention the highway robbery monthly fees is criminal. And, not surprisinly, nobody really caters to the deaf community.
I’d like to know exactly where to start, I don’t want to spend a whole lot on something that I won’t use that very much anyway…I’ve never relied on telecommunications much in my private life, I’m more of an in-your-face and personable sort of person.
Any advice? Oh and I wouldn’t need anything that plays games or music or any of the children’s features. Hmmmm… I’m only 25 and feel like an old fart, oh well.
TIY

By: Toby

Toby — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:15:22 +0000

When my fiancee was in Australia, I used ipipi.com, which is the exact same thing and will do any mobile phone number to get the text out. That was only until my service provider was able to get txt msgs to her directly. ipipi.com has been around for years, nothing new here. Except this site includes the precious four letter word that attracts those who cannot hear: deaf.

By: fol

fol — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:01:06 +0000

Sounds great. I wonder how many decades it will take for this to reach the UK?

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