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Hello everyone,
I am here because I need help. My aunt is deaf and never learned sign language, she was born in Cuba and never had a chance to learn since they lived on a farm. so she learned to read lips instead.
She has been dying for the technology we have now with video chatting. I have a Nokia and my husband a google something, but neither one of these works well for video chatting. Its very choppy and she would never understand us. So I'm looking for advice on what phone to buy her and the rest of us so that we have a clear connection where she can read our lips.
Any suggestions???
Thanks!
 
Susy826 said:
Hello everyone,
I am here because I need help. My aunt is deaf and never learned sign language, she was born in Cuba and never had a chance to learn since they lived on a farm. so she learned to read lips instead.
She has been dying for the technology we have now with video chatting. I have a Nokia and my husband a google something, but neither one of these works well for video chatting. Its very choppy and she would never understand us. So I'm looking for advice on what phone to buy her and the rest of us so that we have a clear connection where she can read our lips.
Any suggestions???
Thanks!
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If she needs to read lips, I would recommend you get the biggest screen possible. If she has high-speed internet access, a laptop with a webcam would be ideal, but if you can only get a phone, get a big screen phone, as lipreading on a phone screen can be trying. I have a huge screen on my LG Spectrum (Verizon), you can read lips as long as the signal is very strong, otherwise even the slightest delays make it harder.

If cost is no object, both of you should get high-speed internet, laptops with excellent video cards, webcam, and processor, and use Skype or similar programs.

I have high-speed internet, and one $600 laptop, and one $1200 laptop, and the expensive one is much, much better at internet video.
 
I have a Galaxy Tab 7- bigger than a phone - and I have no programs that I can lip read on. They are all too laggy. Skype on my computer is high enough quality sometimes to catch something here or there just based on lips, but even in person it isn't an exact science.
 
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