Sprint Helps Out The Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community

In a move perhaps one could call as corporate social responsibility (CSR), Sprint has released a Relay ID pack aimed at those who are either deaf or hard of hearing.

In the press release by Sprint, Claude Stout, executive director, Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Inc. (TDI), “TDI commends Sprint Relay for its ‘Sprint Relay ID pack.’ While TDI has a non-endorsement policy, we salute Sprint for taking the lead as the first telecommunications carrier to give attention to a bundle of new apps that directly benefit users who are deaf and hard of hearing. Only with relevant information and resources included in Sprint’s Relay ID pack can we have an exciting “mobile online experience” as these apps have taken into consideration our unique informational and entertainment needs.”

Included in the pack are such apps as:

• Sprint Mobile Video Relay Services – video relay services for sign language users
• Calendar Notifier – for providing visual alerts and repeating reminders of calendar events
• Handcent SMS – visual alerts and notifications of texts
• VideoPlayer – captions on videos downloaded to an SD card
• Gmail Notifier – visual and vibrating alerts and reminders for Gmail
• TuneWiki – which reads the lyrics to songs
• Captionfish.com – captioned movies playing in a customer’s area
• AIM Instant Messenger – access telephone relay services through AIM Buddy “SprintIP”
• Google Voice – transcribe audio messages left on voice mail into text

The Sprint Relay ID pack is currently available on the following Sprint ID devices: LG Optimus S™, Sanyo Zio™, Samsung Transform™, Samsung Epic™ 4G and Samsung Galaxy Tab™.