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An Accessible iPhone?
... Announced yesterday at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco, the iPhone 3GS will be available in the UK and US on the 19th of June. It promises a whole raft of new accessibility features, including Apple's VoiceOver screen-reading software, a magnification solution called Zoom and a white on black colour contrast option.
Although it has a couple of buttons, the new iPhone 3GS still works primarily using a touch-screen. Apple sees this as a positive thing for the screen-reader user, and has created special gestures to be used in VoiceOver mode ...

... in-app purchases, peer-to-peer connection via Bluetooth, communication with hardware accessories, alerts using Apple Push Notification service, and more. This new software update is available for current iPod touch models starting June 17 for $9.95...

New iPhone Apps (Proloquo2Go, iPrompts, and others) for kids and teens with communication challenges or other challenges can also be used with iPod Touch earlier models as well as the new 32 GB version.
These are amazing technological gadgets that are popular enough that support staff, therapists and teachers as well as everyone else will be interested in learning more about them ~ something often lacking in traditional communication devices and other disability related technology.
In a parent review of the Proloquo2go app on the down-syn list, I discovered a simple, basic one that is available known as iConverse - soon to be updated as requests come in for more flexibility and options.