What is a GeorgiePhone?
GeorgiePhone is an easy to use smartphone with a suite of bespoke tools, utilities and applications that enable people with little or no sight to live, communicate and travel independently.
GeorgiePhone transforms the lives of its users by helping them perform day-to-day tasks independently. There are over 30 easy to use tools and utilities built into every GeorgiePhone.
Here are just five examples of how they can help every single day:
- Find your favourite red t-shirt or pair your socks
(With Colour Recognition)
- Read the mail or a menu in a café
(With Document Scanner/Reader)
- Open a tin of tomatoes rather than a can of custard!
(With Object Recognition)
- Keep in touch with your family and friends
(Using Voice Text and Simple Dialler)
- Travel in to town to meet friends or to go to the shops
(Using Talking Directions and Bus Finder with Journey Tracker)
Owning GeorgiePhone is life changing, to find out more about full range of features here>>
You are never alone with a GeorgiePhone!
GeorgiePhone provides peace of mind for carers and family members too. Besides making it easy for users to keep in touch via phone or text and to enjoy a more independent life, it also enables them to quickly contact a loved one or carer if they get lost or need assistance.
At the touch of a button GeorgiePhone will send a message that asks for assistance and that also contains a map of their precise location.
Communication
GeorgiePhone has been designed to put an end to social isolation. The easy to use communication tools make keeping in touch with friends and family simple.
Simple Phone Dialer
With GeorgiePhone you can call anyone you want! It’s spoken interface tells you what number you are pressing.
With GeorgiePhone you can call anyone you want! Numbers speak when you touch the screen and you hear what you have chosen. Don’t worry about putting in the wrong number, touch the x or gently shake the phone to remove it. So go ahead and make that call!
Contacts
GeorgiePhone makes it easy to add and save people’s contact numbers in your address book so when you need to call or text them their name and number is already there.
It is also possible for people to update their contact information if it changes from any computer with web access.
Call Logs
Forget who called you or the last number you called? No problem, just go into your call logs, you will find all calls, how many received and placed and oops, how many missed! Fortunately GeorgiePhone makes it easy to call them back too…
Texts
Georgiephone makes text messaging straightforward. When you receive a text, just listen to GeorgiePhone reading it to you or see it in large print.
It’s quick and easy to send text using voice text. Just dictate your text and GeorgiePhone will type it for you.
If you don’t want to speak then you can use QWERTY or ABC keyboard layouts.
Magnifier adn Colour recognition
Don’t struggle with tiny print, use the GeorgiePhone magnifier to read food labels, price tags and other things that are hard to read.
If you can’t see colours, no need to do complicated labelling for your clothes, just use the colour identifier to pair your socks or help you find the right T-shirt.
Questions and Answers
If you have a question then you can ask GeorgiePhone…
For instance if you need to convert pounds to kilos, pounds to dollars, distances between towns and so on, GeorgiePhone will give you the answer.
Lost track of time and date? GeorgiePhone will tell you.
Check out the weather for the next three days, so you can plan your travels.
Camera
Have fun with the camera: point it and take the picture and surprise your friends! It’s easier than you think!
Document Reader
Now you can go into your favourite restaurant or café and using GeorgiePhone’s document reader function you scan the text on the menu and have Georgie read it back to you. It also works with documents such as mail, bills and bank statements.
Books and Podcasts
Don’t miss your favourite books, just download and have them read to you.
Podcasts
With GeorgiePhone you can catch up on the favourite radio programmes you have missed.
Voicenotes
Now you can record a shopping list, when to pick up the dry cleaning, remind yourself of that important call to make. Just record anything that is important to you.
Travel and Navigation
GeorgiePhone gives users their freedom back. The travel and navigation utilities are designed to give users the confidence to go for a walk or to use public transport.
Places & Near Me
Allows you to record and label your own personal places or hazards or whatever you want on your regular travels. When coming up to your recorded places, it will speak the location, also giving you step by step walking directions or a visual map.
Select a category like food and drink, subcategory restaurant, it will then show a list of matching establishments. Simply select one and you will get step by step spoken walking directions or a visual map.
Walking
Choose your own personal public destinations or preset destination and get turn by turn walking directions. So get moving and start walking!
Buses and Taxis
Locate the nearest bus stops, find the time of buses from them, get walking directions and hear the name of each bus stop when on the bus.
Find a local taxi or one at your destination and just call them through a single button press.
Assistance
No worry of getting lost, send a text message to a family member, friend or carer phones’, which displays as a map pinpointing your current location.
Locate Me
A location map is available so any concerned family member, friend or carer can stay in touch with where you currently are.
Help Me
The help me app can be installed on a family member, friend or carer phone and your location will be displayed as a point on a map and they can call you straight back.
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