My Apple iPhone 6S Plus Still Facilitates My Vision Impairment!

My Apple iPhone 6S Plus is now 2.70 years old.
Now running iOS 15.1, freshly updated 44 days ago. My iPhone now has a NEW BATTERY Freshly Installed 67 days ago, capable of holding a charge up to 28 hours in a single battery cycle!

Hello World! Surprisingly, I waited almost 18 months after blindness to purchased my first iPhone as “new”, the 6S Plus, as my disability income prevented me from purchasing a newer model. I was coerced by too many BLIND iPhone users (via Facebook) to make the investment. The 32GB 6S Plus was the oldest model the local Apple authorized reseller had in-stock, still factory-sealed from manufacturer, so I purchased it after “forcing” the store manager to activate the VoiceOver screenreader on the display unit as my requirement before I decide to purchase. Once I figured how to manipulate the VoiceOver screenreader on the display unit, I instructed my wife to purchase the new, factory-sealed in box, requesting the store manager to upgrade the iOS to the latest version, from 11 to 12.2 before I leave the store. While waiting for my wife to finish her grocery shopping, I got to try out Apple Siri for the first time! After leaving the store, my newly-purchased iPhone became ready for my exploration & experimentation! ☺️

My iPhone is not my first Apple product. Though I once performed computer programming on the Apple II & Macintosh computers, I purchased an Apple laptop with System 7.5.5 as a 2nd-hand unit. In 2005, I purchased my first iPod, but quickly outgrew it, convincing me to purchased the 32GB video iPod instead. In 2006, I purchased the Apple iBook G4 laptop computer, in which I self-registered myself as an independent Apple developer on the PowerPC platform, a month before Apple opted for Intel over PowerPC. I also purchased the first generation Apple MacMini with the Intel chipset, but sold it a year later, because it would not run Debian GNU/Linux.

Daily, I use my Apple iPhone 6S Plus with Logitech K480 Bluetooth QWERTY keyboard, mostly because I’m able to completely manipulate it without touching its touchscreen, and I’m much faster! As an alternative, mostly for reduction of arthritis pain, my Orbit Writer Braille keyboard works satisfactorily on it, but I’m not as fast as when I type on a QWERTY keyboard.

My wife’s nephew, Josh, replaced the iPhone battery after spending almost two hours with my wife. The new battery costed under 🇵🇭₱400 (🇺🇸$7.96) via Lazada (commerce site. I did many tweaks to make the battery charge last longer. No, my iOS is NOT “jailbroken”!

Since I’m living off of disability income, my 6S Plus will be my final Apple product, unless someone gives me a newer unit. However, I already accept the fact that my wishes for another Apple product will never happen in the remainder of my lifetime.

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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