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What to look for in a phone for older people

12 January 2022 12 January 2022 By Brendan Lewis

Whether you’re researching for yourself or a loved one, choosing the right mobile phone if you’re experiencing sight loss can seem like a challenging task. With a vast range of different brands and devices to choose from, with varying features and price points, it can be hard to know where

Win a RealSAM Pocket for Christmas

9 December 2021 7 December 2021 By Louise Humphreys

⭐🎄⭐ WIN A REALSAM POCKET TO PUT UNDER YOUR TREE ⭐🎄⭐ The RealSAM team are bringing Christmas to you early! For your chance to win a RealSAM Pocket v3 simply complete the form below with the details of who in your life would just love to open one on Christmas

Five ways RealSAM Pocket will improve your Christmas in 2021

9 November 2021 8 November 2021 By Charlie TBD

Sight loss can be hard enough at the best of times. It’s even harder at Christmas time when Christmas cards, carol sheets and festive recipes remain agonisingly out of reach for millions of Brits who struggle to read them. The good news is that our product – RealSAM Pocket –

News and Politics updates for the blind and visually impaired

9 November 2021 7 November 2021 By Charlie TBD

If you’re an avid newshound or like to know more about what’s happening in Westminster, Holyrood, Cardiff or Washington, then we have some great news for you… Is there an easy way for me to get news and politics updates on-demand as a blind person? As someone suffering from sight

Is There a Device to Help Me Shop As a Blind Person?

21 October 2021 19 October 2021 By Charlie TBD

RealSam Pocket is a voice-activated smartphone device that has been designed to fit in with you and your lifestyle, to assist you in your day-to-day life. Not only has it been designed for and by people with visual impairment but has also been tried and tested with them as well.

Pasties and Paralympics: Holiday Memories by Red Szell

8 September 2021 By Louise Humphreys

It’s been a couple of weeks since my last blog. That’s because I’ve been on holiday – and glued to my Pocket As a family we’ve always preferred to go away within the UK and, having booked early last autumn, were lucky enough to have bagged a place in the

Is RealSAM Pocket SIM free right for me?

26 August 2021 26 August 2021 By Louise Humphreys

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

RealSAM developing prototype Alexa Skill for NLS

5 August 2021 5 August 2021 By Louise Humphreys

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)

Exclusive interview with RNIB Connect Radio to launch RealSAM Pocket Sim Free

29 July 2021 29 July 2021 By Louise Humphreys

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

The Pocket Guide to a Summer of Sport

15 July 2021 By Louise Humphreys

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