BlindShell 2 Baroque User Manual
BlindShell is a touchscreen phone for blind and visually impaired people. It is
operated by simple gestures. Feedback is provided by the built-in synthetic voice,
by vibration and by additional acoustic signals. BlindShell has been developed in
close cooperation with the Czech Blind United (SONS). If you have any suggestions
or other feedback regarding BlindShell, please do not hesitate to contact us at
. Your feedback is very valuable to us and helps us to improve
BlindShell.
Setting up the phone
The structure of the phone
Congratulations! You are now holding your first BlindShell phone. Before you start
using the phone, we would like to introduce you to the device. Hold your phone in
such a way that it is perpendicular and the rear side with the physically
distinguishable camera is pointing away from you and the camera is located at the
upper end of the phone. BlindShell has two buttons which are located as follows:
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The long button on the left edge is the volume rocker. Pressing the upper end
will increase the volume, and pressing the lower end will decrease it. In any
text field, a long press on the volume button will start the dictation function.
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The small button on the right edge has three functions. It turns your phone
on, it locks the screen and it acts the home button. Pressing the button for
half a second from anywhere within BlindShell will take you back to the main
menu.
On the upper edge of the phone, you'll find tow sockets. The one in the middle
serves for charging the phone and also for connecting the data cable. The round
one on the right side of the edge serves for connecting the headset.
Inserting the SIM card and the battery
All BlindShell phones are delivered with the phone itself, the charging cable, the
power adapter and a headset. A SIM card is not provided with the phone. You need
either a standard SIM card or a micro SIM card. Before you can turn the phone on,
you need to insert the battery and the SIM card as follows:
1. Hold your phone perpendicular with the rear side pointing towards you and
the camera at the upper end.
2. Hook your finger nail into the socket in the bottom part of the phone on the
left side and pull the rear side away from the device until you hear a clicking
sound. Move your finger around the phone through the little crack that has
now appeared and remove the rear end completely.
3. Put your phone face down on the table so that the sockets are located on the
upper edge.
4. In the upper third of the phone, you will find three card slots. The left slot is
the standard SIM slot, the middle one is the micro SIM slot and the right slot is
for a micro SD card which serves as an extension of your phone's memory.
Remove the dummy SIM card from the slot which you are going to use, and
replace it with your own SIM card. The standard size has a cut off corner on
the upper left. The same applies for the micro SD card. The micro SIM card
