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SIDEKICKS BECOMING VITAL LINK.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 10-DEC-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: SIDEKICKS BECOMING VITAL LINK.(General News)(Smart phones are growing `absolutely necessary' within the deaf community)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Lewis Taylor The Register-Guard

Daniela Vazquez-Hernandez holds a Sidekick II close to her face and pecks out a text message. Her powerful phone, which has a pop-up screen and 26-letter keyboard, is the same device favored by Paris Hilton, Snoop Dogg and other celebrities. It allows her to send e-mails, text messages, instant messages and surf the Web. She can also make phone calls, but that's a function she never uses.

Vazquez-Hernandez, 19, is deaf.

She is part of a niche market of technology users who buy smart phones such as the Sidekick II and the Blackberry, not just for fun but as a means of communicating with each other and connecting to the hearing world. The Sidekick II is so common in the deaf and hard of hearing communities that it even has its own hand signal in American Sign Language (two palms held together and opened like a clam shell).

"To the hard...

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