Hi James, Gari.info is the global accessibility research initiative. Like the w3c, the organization evaluates devices for rather a stunning about of accessibility features. I needed to get stateside staff to search the database, with only three or four devices even matching what my body requires. I do not use my phone for applications of any kind. No internet searches, I do not even send text messages. The wine 2 based on lg experience provides speech output at the ear, where you hold the phone for example. It uses nuance for its voice, which will not trigger a seizure. As a comparative example, since you are with rogers. If You have one of the current set top boxes, you can tern on a voice for navigation, its android. It also takes that voice less than 5 seconds of exposure to trigger a brain episode for me. while the xp3 plus does still have nuance, you cannot shift speech to the earpiece. I saw the phone at telus. Previously you could do this. Now, it is unclear if speech is even sent to the headphones..which for me would be profoundly unsafe to use in public due to blindness. the wine 2 does check out as volite and 4g 5g capable. Sorry if I misspelled that above. Great question, thanks for asking. One other possibility from the gari search is a Nokia 2760. However, I have no experience with the speech source used. I do know from google accessibility list discussions, that Nokia phones should firmly be tried first t before You buy though. Karen On Mon, 29 Sep 2025, James Knott via Talk wrote:
Those are both very old phones. Given their age, I don't know they'd support VoLTE, which is required with 3G shutting down. They are also Android v4 or 5, which means obsolete and many apps won't run on something that old, let alone no security updates for years.
What is it about those phones that you want and can't find in another phone? At the very least you need a phone that supports 4G and VoLTE or better yet 5G.
On 9/29/25 15:23, Scott Allen via Talk wrote:
On Mon, 29 Sept 2025 at 15:08, Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> wrote:
The wine 2 matches the gari record I found in terms of model number. Making it my preference There is a seller on AliExpress offering it. I don't know if it would be unlocked and have the frequencies required for Canada, though. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005009983398640.html
The original Wine is also available. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005008842209474.html
It takes some time for shipping from AliExpress and you would probably want to make sure they used a Canadian courier other than Canada Post, due to the strike.
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