New covers dubbed The Ultrasonic Cover, Optical Scan Stand, and Voice Label, each comes with unique features to assist disabled users with navigating through their everyday lives.
The Ultrasonic Cover has the ability to sense the presence of a person or object up to 2 meters away and send a vibration or TTS feedback alert to user to detect upcoming obstacles. The Optical Scan Stand cover is capable of recognizing text from images such as adverts, signs and reading them out loud for visually impaired users to know what they’re looking at without help from others. cover for helps users in distinguishing objects with its’ ability to make notes and tag voice labels on-the-go.
“These tools join the pre-loaded Light Sensing App, Instant Voice Recorder, and Voice Guided Camera as critical usability and accessibility features specifically designed to extend the Galaxy experience to disabled and visually impaired users,” Samsung stated on its’ official blog.
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The Galaxy Core Advance, which comes with 4.7-inch display, 1GB RAM, 5MP camera and Android 4.2 Jelly Bean might even replace the old white cane used by the blind in the future, with help from a couple of more improved gadgets. It’s truly admirable for Samsung to focus on the disabled as well as general consumers with their latest gadgets, something which seems to be missing from most of the world’s leading tech companies.
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