My Xiaomi Redmi 9T Android smartphone Greatly Facilitates My Vision Impairment!

My Xiaomi Redmi 9T Android 10 smartphone is now 8.0 weeks old! It was officially released approximately 46.6 weeks ago.

Hello World! My Android lifestyle began seven years before I became totally BLIND. As being an independent Google developer prior to my sight-loss, I quickly consulted with Google I/O developers when I began experiencing intermittent blindness, whom originally introduced me to Google TalkBack screenreader. A couple of years went by, when my trusted Android 7 smartphone would no longer recognize my finger gestures, and then, my favorite Android 9 smartphone (successor) decided to “brick” on me during an OTA factory update. After two months without an Android smartphone, my wife purchased the Xiaomi Redmi 9T for me, adding my recently-purchased 128GB microSD card into it. Since then, it has been working GREAT for me! ☺️

Interestingly, I still have all my electronics engineering tools for repairing Android devices from “bricked” firmware, but unfortunately, I’m now totally BLIND, and eyesight is required for me to do any repair work. I really miss those days of being successful at quickly repairing my digital electronic gadgets.

My wife’s sighted nephew, Josh, was able to understand my English-voiced commands in making my Xiaomi Redmi 9T into an extremely useful & beneficial tool to facilitate my vision impairment, mostly because I taught him most of my geeky computer skills before I became BLIND. He’s presently in 4th year college studies in electrical engineering, which is also a great benefit to me. ☺️

Once the Android Accessibility Suite was installed from the Google Play Store, and Google TalkBack was activated, I began installing my favorite Android apps, in batches. Josh enters all my encrypted passwords for me! ☺️

My BLIND folder has the following apps: Supersense AI, Envision AI, Sullivan+, Legere Reader, Google LookOut, TapTapSee, BeMyEyes, and The Voice for Android. — I also operate these apps with my screen hidden! ☺️

Since I have been a radio scanner listener since 1983, my Scanners folder has the following (purchased) apps: ScannerRadio Pro, Broadcastify Player Pro and LiveATC. — I’ve consulted with the developer of ScannerRadio in making that app accessible with Google TalkBack. ☺️

Next, is my Music folder, containing the following apps: Apple Music, TuneIn Radio Pro, YouTube Music, Spotify, BrainWaves Pro, White Noise Generator and Noise Wall Pro.

In my Science folder, I use these Android apps: ISS Detector Pro and Philippines Weather & Earthquakes.

Since I still enjoy computer programming, the Android apps in my Compilers folder are C/C++ Compiler, BASIC Compiler and Sedona Swift Compiler. ☺️

My Drives folder includes my cloud drives, Amazon Drive, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive & DropBox.

The AI-based voice assistants on my Xiaomi Redmi 9T smartphone are the Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, both concurrently work with my BOSE QuietComfort 35 II headphones. ☺️

And then, of course, I have Netflix installed, allowing me to enjoy content with audio descriptions! ☺️

Thanks to Google BrailleBack, I’m able to type in Computer Braille with my Orbit Writer Braille keyboard. ☺️

My wife purchased this Xiaomi Redmi 9T smartphone for 🇵🇭₱8399 (🇺🇸$167). I opted for this brand & model for it’s low price and it uses the QualComm SnapDragon chipset. (I wanted the Samsung model with the same chipset, but it was 3x more expensive!) The memory configuration of my unit, is 6GB + 128GB internal + 128GB external. — I’ve managed to fill up most of my external microSD card with lossless music (from Apple Music) and videos (from Netflix). ☺️

Thanks for reading my latest blog post! Have a Great Day!

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Happily-Married, comfortably poor, permanently disabled and totally BLIND. A Terrorism SURVIVOR that's still SURVIVING Terrorism + post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Scientist since 1977, Acoustician since 1979, Computer Scientist/Programmer since 1982, Seismologist since 1988, Criminologist (Behavioral Scientist) since 1992, and many more! Also, had worked in two civilian and one military virology labs in the USA between 1993 and 2003. A Generation X, Filipino-American US expat, living in The Philippines, whom was naturally-born in Boston, grew up mostly in Seattle, some in Chicago, and have lived in Anchorage & San Francisco. Became permanently-disabled in 2003 due to health-related illness, ending my moonlighting career as an independent private investigator in the USA. RETIRED independent developer of computing & electronics technologies after 35 wonderful years, including 20 wonderful years in GNU/Linux development & 8 wonderful years as an independent embedded systems developer of digital electronics. Former speech synthesis systems developer of 30 wonderful years, specializing in foreign language phoneme-to-speech synthesis. Also was a beta tester of third-party software-based speech synthesizers. Former FCC-licensed amateur radio operator of 20 wonderful years, beginning with 2m packet-radio & AmSat communications between Anchorage & Manila. Former member of Anchorage Amateur Radio Club and Mike & Key ARC in Seattle. Learned 10-finger QWERTY touch-typing on a manual typewriter in 1980 at a US-based elementary school. Mastered 10-finger QWERTY touch-typing without looking at the keyboard in 1986. Now have osteoarthritis in both of my hands from all that touch-typing! My primary computer programming language is C, which I learned in 1990. My secondary programming language is B.A.S.I.C., which I self-learned in 1982. Prior to my sight-loss, I used to program in LISP/CLISP and Prolog for my early development of artificial intelligence & machine learning programs. Daily, to compensate/facilitate my sight-loss, I am actively using Apple iOS VoiceOver, Google Android TalkBack and Amazon Fire OS VoiceView screen-readers, in addition to my external Bluetooth QWERTY keyboard and sometimes, my Orbit Writer Braille keyboard, as HOBBIES.

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