RealSAM Pocket has been around since 2017. The world’s first fully voice controlled phone designed from the ground up for blind and partially sighted people. Packing a punch with access to over 100,000 audiobooks, newspapers, magazines, podcasts and radio, it’s the perfect entertainment device that doubles up as a phone
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RealSAM developing prototype Alexa Skill for NLS
A quick update on what our American sister company is up to. As you may remember, in October 2019 we were awarded a contract to turn a version of RealSAM Pocket into a prototype of a book reader for the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS)
RealSAM News July
Check out the latest edition of our newsletter RealSAM News – July 2021 | Revue (getrevue.co)
Exclusive interview with RNIB Connect Radio to launch RealSAM Pocket Sim Free
There’s nothing we enjoy more than chatting to the team at RNIB Connect Radio and especially when we have a new product to launch! Louise Humphreys from RealSAM was invited to chat to Connect Radio’s Toby Davey about the new Sim free version of Pocket which adds a bit
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The Pocket Guide to a Summer of Sport
I was never that good at sport at school. The bottle-top lenses in my glasses earned me a fair amount of stick in the classroom, but once I was without them on the sportsground I became a slow-moving target for everything from insults to cricket balls. And I’m afraid that
RealThing Ai scoops two Awards at the 2021 Rising Stars Awards with its innovative technology for Blind people
The team behind the RealSAM UK Smart Speaker, has been recognised for two awards at the 2021 Computing Rising Stars Awards, winning both Team of the Year and Digital Person of the Year for UK Manager, Louise Humphreys. At the height of the pandemic RealThing Ai launched a news and
Find My Pocket?
Following on from last week’s blog about the ‘dangerous’ new Bookshelf feature on my Pocket, I feel the need to make a public service announcement! I suspect that I am far from the only one to be feeding a serious audiobook habit through my Pocket and experiencing the side-effects of
Pocket Bookshelf
Earlier this week I received a very exciting email from Louise at RealSam, telling me about a new feature on my Pocket called Bookshelf. It enables you to search for and curate a collection of books by subject, rather than having to know the title or author. So, it should
Launching Bookshelf on RealSAM Pocket
Summer’s here and so is the release of the latest feature on RealSAM Pocket! Today we joined the team at RNIB Connect Radio to share how RealSam has your summer holiday reading sorted thanks to the launch of our new Bookshelf feature. Bookshelf makes it easier to listen to your favourite
Every Dad Shall Have His Day
I’ve never been particularly good at remembering calendar dates. It’s about as much as I can manage to keep track of my immediate family’s birthdays, and of course my wedding anniversary! And so, to be honest, for much of my life, annual events like Father’s Day have rather passed me
