RealThing Ai launches smartphone for visually impaired
Summary
The newest developments are crafted to meet the daily frustrations that visually impaired people face, including the ease of accessing choices when shopping, challenges in being independently mobile and a need for a reliable solution to read text in confidential situations, such as banking and healthcare. Its voice activated object recognition and OCR features enables users to review items on a supermarket shelf, compare prices and select products with a preferred sell by date. We hope the updated features of the new phone will help to meet the needs of customers with sight loss.” Since its UK launch in 2018 in partnership with the RNIB and O2, RealSAM Pocket has bundled an easy to use, fully voice-controlled smartphone with inbuilt entertainment and personal assistant features.These include: • Easy access to over 100,000 audiobooks, newspapers and magazines supplied by the UK charities, RNIB and Calibre Audio • Instant video support from the Be My Eyes network of volunteers • An on-call assistant that simultaneously calls and texts nominated contacts in the event of an emergency Never struggle with small print again RealSAM Pocket’s new OCR feature allows users to take a picture of printed or handwritten text and have it read back to them with high accuracy. The phone’s voice controls guide the process, alerting the user to the image being in focus, while also offering the ability to customise the onscreen display to alternative brightness, contrast, and colour combinations to improve visibility for those with some vision. Powered by a customised Samsung XCover 5 handset, Pocket V4 benefits from a new visual interface plus significant leaps in its battery life, memory, and processing speeds.