Blind Android Users Podcast

We discuss the release of Android 16 QPR Beta 1.1.

We are joined by the developers of TableEx – an app designed so that blind and visually impaired people can play classic board and card games.

Warren brings us a demonstration of a new bible app, Random Scripture Verse Picker.

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We discuss what’s new in the recently launched Samsung One UI 8 Beta available on the S25 series of phones.  Enroll via the Samsung Members app.

We are joined for a conversation by the developers of Seeing Assistant GO – an app we recently discussed when we surveyed the state of GPS apps.

John demonstrates the new table navigation mode in Talkback 16.

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Android16 QPR1Beta1

Google preceded the public release of Android16 with “Android16QPR1Beta1.”

This week, the focus is on Google I/O 2025 – Google’s annual developer conference which took place on 20 and 21 May.  The crew discuss the highlights, but it’s worth reading the 100 I/O announcements in full.

Focusing on one of the I/O announcements, Warren demonstrates the Google Notebook LM app.

John demonstrates the new screen description feature in Talkback 16.

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This week, we discuss the release of Talkback 16.

It’s a busy section this week.  We talk about various phones including the Samsung S25 Edge, The Sony Xperia 1 VII and the latest Android 16 Beta.

John shows us how to ask follow up questions when you have a Talkback image description – a new feature of Talkback 16.

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In recent episodes we have been revisiting app categories we looked at in the early days of the podcast.  However, we have never dedicated a full segment to screen readers though we have discussed the differences in passing, so we are remedying that now.  This week, we look at Talkback available as part of Google’s Android Accessibility Suite, Jieshuo/Commentary and Prudence.

Check out this comparison article between TalkBack and Jieshuo on Accessible Android.

This week, we touch on some of the fixes in the May security patch.

Warren demonstrates the text to speech app, TTS Router.

John shows us how to handle different aspects of the Notifications and Quick Settings panels in Samsung One UI 7.

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In recent episodes we have been revisiting app categories we looked at in the early days of the podcast.  This week, we look at the state of GPS apps in 2025.  Apps discussed include Google Maps, Lazarillo Accessible GPS, Seeing Assistant Move and the simpler Seeing Assistant Go, Goodmaps Outdoors and Waymap (disclaimer: this one hasn’t been tested)!

Joe Hodge unboxes his new tablet, the Lenovo Legion Tab Gen 3.

Karene brings us the next episode in our Jieshuo series, looking at its ability to take full and partial screen shots, as well as a direct touch and hold function.

Warren demonstrates the Text to Speech engine, Speecx.

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In recent episodes we have been revisiting app categories we looked at in the early days of the podcast.  This week, we look at the state of audio book apps in 2025.  We discuss various apps including  Audible, Smart AudioBook Player, Listen Audiobook Player, mAbook and  LibriVox

We talk about the new phones from Motorola.

Kirt Manwaring joins us to tell his Android journey story.

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The developer of the app  Magnifier which John demonstrated a few weeks ago has very generously donated a number of codes which will remove ads from the app.  Get in touch if you’d like one.

In recent episodes we have been revisiting app categories we looked at in the early days of the podcast.  This week, we look at the state of browsers in 2025.  We discuss Google Chrome, Vivaldi, Brave, Samsung Internet Browser, Microsoft Edge and Firefox.

Spotlight

It’s a busy Spotlight section this week.  First, we discuss the changes in Android 16 Beta 4.  Next, we talk about Samsung resuming the roll-out Of OneUI 7.  Finally, we look at the Honor Power, notable for its massive battery.

In keeping with the theme of this week’s episode, Karene demonstrates the web browser built into Jieshuo.

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Welcome to Episode227, where we discuss the state of email clients in2025.

Email clients continue to be a hot subject matter on both our email and Telegram groups.

Thus, this week, we focus on the state of email clients in 2025.

In this week’s discussion, we touch on the following clients:

Gmail, Email Lite, Edison mail, Spark Mail, TwoBird, Aquamail, etc. where we talked about their strengths and weaknesses.

In the spotlight is the One UI 7 stable release for the S24-series and the new changes it brought.

Alongside with that is a spotlight on the Pixel update for the month of April as well as the Android 16 beta 2 coming in for the OnePlus 13.

John brings us an updated tutorial on how to install the Google Talkback on a Samsung device.

The required batch files are found using this URL.

To close this week’s episode, our friend Devin Prater brings us his Android Journey story.

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Welcome to Episode226, our 2nd Quarter Open-Listener Session.

Since this is an open-listener session, we moved segments around some, thus, the “spotlight” segment is about Android16Beta3.2 and One UI7Beta for the Galaxy A55 phone.

This segment is a general discussion on Android backup, especially focusing on Talkback.

In this segment, the focus is on the implementation of the Google TTS update policy.

The question of how email threads are handled in Gmail and others is the focus of this segment.

This segment spotlights the inability of customizing commands for either the Braille Display or the virtual Braille keyboard.

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