Blind Android Users Podcast

EPISODE 305: SHOULD THE PHONE PRICE HIKE TAKE A HIKE?Welcome to Episode 305.ANNOUNCEMENTSWe edge towards our 4th Quarter open-listener/Developer session as we have 21 more days to get to October 31 when listeners and developers come together. Mark that on your calendar.ANDROID BASICSThe qualifying Honor phones get a test of the upgrade to Android17 and alongside with that, we highlight some of those changes.SPOTLIGHTThis week’s focus is on the rise of phone prices, thus, giving the episode its title above.Your faithful crew discusses these price hikes.APP OF THE WEEKFor this week’s “App of the week,” our friend Aaron Hewitt introduces us to his app, “Shortcut Menu,” an app intended for the switching of Screen Readers on the fly. He also mentioned an app one could choose to use in grabbing the ADB command using “ADB AppControl.”Staying in touchMake a donation via PayPal, Email us your Android journey stories, suggestions or comments, subscribe to our Email list, join our Telegram and Facebook groups, subscribe to our YouTube channel.Leave us a voice message via our suggestions, comments and questions phone number at: +1-307-202-9797.

Episode 304, Bringing Sight Buddy homeAnnouncementsJieshuo has 20% off until 5 October, find out how to subscribe.Join our final quarterly listener and developer session for 2026 on 31 October, timings and links to follow.Android basicsWe discuss what’s new in Android 17 Quarterly Platform Release 3 Beta 1.SpotlightWe’re joined by Tommy Makela, developer of the Sight Buddy app – an AI assistant.App of the weekWarren demonstrates the keyboard app Voice Cursor.Staying in touchMake a donation via PayPal, Email us your Android journey stories, suggestions or comments, subscribe to our Email list, join our Telegram and Facebook groups, subscribe to our YouTube channel.Leave us a voice message via our suggestions, comments and questions phone number at: +1-307-202-9797.

EPISODE 303: ProxVision: Who is it for?Welcome to Episode 303.SPOTLIGHTIn this week’s episode, we caught up with the Developer of ProxVision (from proxmaq), where we discuss what “ProxVision” is and its impact is an app intended for the blind for use in addressing the day-to-day chores of life as folks living with visual loss.APP OF THE WEEKWith the rise of “Rambler” from Google wherein, voice-dictation has taken on a new form, more and more developers have jumped onto this trend, via creative methods of bringing similar experience to those using phones that are not Google 11-series. Thus, for this week’s “app of the week,” we meet “Lexo Offline AI Voice Keyboard” a keyboard that works offline.Staying in touchMake a donation via PayPal, Email us your Android journey stories, suggestions or comments, subscribe to our Email list, join our Telegram and Facebook groups, subscribe to our YouTube channel.Leave us a voice message via our suggestions, comments and questions phone number at: +1-307-202-9797.

EPISODE 301: MEET DEVS OF BOOKFUSION VOICEWelcome to Episode 301.SPOTLIGHTIn this week’s episode, our spotlight is on BookFusion Voice TTS, where Duane Campbell from the “Fusion” group intimates us with both the Systemwide BookFusion TTS and the BookFusion Epub and PDF reader.APP OF THE WEEKFor the app of the week, our focus is on an app from the UK by our friend Tommi Mäkelä in the way of “Sight Buddy.”FOCUS DELAY FROM JIESHUO (AKA CSR)Kareen brings us another entry from the Jieshuo features, where she demonstrates the “Focus Delay” feature, something similar to what we find in Talkback.Staying in touchMake a donation via PayPal, Email us your Android journey stories, suggestions or comments, subscribe to our Email list, join our Telegram and Facebook groups, subscribe to our YouTube channel.Leave us a voice message via our suggestions, comments and questions phone number at: +1-307-202-9797.

Episode 300, Blind Accessibility KeyboardAndroid basicsWe discuss what’s new in Android 17 Quarterly Platform Release 2 Beta 4.SpotlightWe’re joined by Philip Heyse, developer of the Blind Accessibility Keyboard.  Subscribe to the mailing list and visit the website.Staying in touchMake a donation via PayPal, Email us your Android journey stories, suggestions or comments, subscribe to our Email list, join our Telegram and Facebook groups, subscribe to our YouTube channel.Leave us a voice message via our suggestions, comments and questions phone number at: +1-307-202-9797.

EPISODE 299: MEET DEVS OF SMART EYES PROWelcome to Episode 299.SPOTLIGHTIn this week’s episode, our spotlight is on “Smart Eyes Pro,” where we caught up with Sameh Gamal, one of the Devs of behind the app.PIXEL WATCH 5 UNBOXINGWe take the wraps off the just released Pixel Watch 5 by doing a quick unboxing and giving it a quick comparison to the Pixel Watch 4.TIP OF THE WEEKWe highlight one of the features of the Pixel 11 called (Magic Capture” as John demonstrates the feature on the Pixel 11 camera.Staying in touchMake a donation via PayPal, Email us your Android journey stories, suggestions or comments, subscribe to our Email list, join our Telegram and Facebook groups, subscribe to our YouTube channel.Leave us a voice message via our suggestions, comments and questions phone number at: +1-307-202-9797.

Episode 298, the new Pixels?UnboxingThis week, John and Warren undertake the annual unboxing of their new Pixels and the crew discusses how they compare to the previous series and other phones.App of the weekWarren brings us a demonstration of Murmur: Voice to Text Offline – an app which will transcribe audio you import or record and which works fully offline.Staying in touchMake a donation via PayPal, Email us your Android journey stories, suggestions or comments, subscribe to our Email list, join our Telegram and Facebook groups, subscribe to our YouTube channel.Leave us a voice message via our suggestions, comments and questions phone number at: +1-307-202-9797.

Episode 297: MADE BY GOOGLE2026 AND BEYONDSPOTLIGHTIn our spotlight for this week,  we discuss the just concluded Made by Google 2026 event of hardware devices.”Alongside all of that, we highlight John’s impressions of the Galaxy ZFold 8 and we conclude this episode with the unboxing of the Galaxy Watch Ultra2 by our friend, Nermin Hasic.Staying in touchMake a donation via PayPal, Email us your Android journey stories, suggestions or comments, subscribe to our Email list, join our Telegram and Facebook groups, subscribe to our YouTube channel.Leave us a voice message via our suggestions, comments and questions phone number at: +1-307-202-9797.