Need some help with iPhone and TTY

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KeithD1976

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I know use the search function! Before I get flamed please help, I'm pretty down/depressed and humble about all of this. I found out at 34 to have an "official" impairment of which confirmed the obvious, something worsening over the years. I'm finally going to eat the pride and use what I can. I'm just tired of hiding and making excuses.

I have an iPhone and use it sms and email. This has been be tool to "hide" certain things. I know it has a tty function. BUT I've also hear that digitial makes things more difficult on cell phones. I would like to purchase accessories and use TTY for dealing with phone contact with faceless people on the phone (for utils, bills etc.) so I can clearly have a conversation. So I don't have to bother others for posing as me or making calls for me and wasting THEIR time.

In my professional life, I deal with people face to face and hide it well, assistants at the office help with incoming calls and I "work around" the calls.

Could someone point me in the direction of what devices work with iPhone the best? If not that landline ones?

Respectfully,
Keith
 
During my experience, Nokia lineup have excellent TTY mode to TTY while other rest are difficult to make properly connect.
 
Can you recommend a specific model (PM if needed) that will work without much ado with an iPhone. If I have to go landline I can, but it's nice to be mobile.
 
KeithD1976 said:
Can you recommend a specific model (PM if needed) that will work without much ado with an iPhone. If I have to go landline I can, but it's nice to be mobile.
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any that come with 2.5mm or required TTY adapter to make both mobile phone and TTY connect then you able to call anywhere.
 
I do not know what kind of AT&T plan, do you have? TAP? No TAP - use voice for 300 min or more?
If, you have TAP. You use iphone connect to regular TTY/TDD. To make call someone or relay. It will charge you for minutes.
 
For work, you can use CapTel in place of your work phone. More on this: CapTel - The Captioned Telephone Make sure the service is available in your state.

I am not sure about the cell phone. You could send email via Sidekick (or something similiar) but I don't know of anything that you can use "voice carry over". Good luck in finding something like that.
 
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