NVDA should support mobile phones (windows mobile and symbian)

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Reported by RamboUdin on 2010-11-03 07:02 NVDA now suppprts touch devices, so why don't NVDA support mobile phone running these operating systems as well? That will be great!

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Comment 1 by allan on 2010-11-03 07:47 Hi, i dont say no to this suggestion, but i think NVDA developer still have their plate full with other task and commitment. Furthermore, to implement NVDA to another platform, they need to own such devices and tools for testing. So i think NVDA developers should concerntrate into improving current NVDA which still have long long way to go.

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Comment 2 by jteh on 2010-11-03 22:32 NVDA can't really be ported to these devices. A completely different screen reader would have to be written. This is because Python is probably not suitable for a screen reader on these devices due to higher resource usage and the like. Even if it could be ported, the work required would be huge and we don't have the resources to do this. Changes: Milestone changed from None to None Added labels: wontfix State: closed

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Comment 3 by KevanGC on 2010-11-07 05:59 what about the BlackBerry or Android?

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Comment 4 by jteh on 2010-11-07 06:13 Same answer applies for any mobile platform.

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NVDA can't really be ported to these devices. A completely different screen reader would have to be written. This is because Python is probably not suitable for a screen reader on these devices due to higher resource usage and the like. Even if it could be ported, the work required would be huge and we don't have the resources to do this.

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Comment 6 by nvdakor (in reply to comment 5) on 2013-09-05 15:15 Replying to surfer0627: Even then, I personally believe there's no need, as Android 4.0 and later includes improved Talkback, which has substantially improved features. WinMo is done, and the status of Blackberry is uncertain. Besides, most of these smartphones use ARM devices, so it'll not understand x86/x64 code at all, and tons of work has to be done to support new OS support layer (some have actually tried this with mixed success). Thus, I agree with jteh on this issue.