The IPhione! Is great and can be completely navigate using the accessibility feature voice over. No experinece with the android.

The iPhone is absolutely the right choice. Default apps are excellent, and there are plenty of other good ones. One that's expensive but very good is BlindSquare, which you can read about. It assists with navigation.

Android has accessibility support but it's poor. On most phones you can't even enable its voiceover feature without sighted assistance, and most apps have abysmal support.

Iphone hands down. Any current model he likes. Voiceover (the screen reader) is built in. Applevis can give you info about the accessibility of a lot of apps, and you can find loads of blind-friendly tutorials for stuff.

I would say the two paid blind-specific apps you really want to consider getting are KNFB reader (which uses the cell phone camera to read all kinds of printed text) and Blindsquare (which is a GPS-type app for blind users.)

I have plenty of experience using android too, but iphones are more accessible, easier to learn, and have more apps designed for blind users.

Iphone! I'm an android fan for me personally, but my best friend is a teacher for the visually impaired. She, personally, switched to iphone its functions work better for her students, and she wanted to be comfortable with explaining it to them.

Apple products have great accessibility built into the operating system. I use the digital magnifier on mine all of the time because I usually always have my phone and it works very well.

Dad uses iPhone and he's legally blind.

I use android with Google Talkback. So far so good. But I actually preferred the old nokia phones (hardware keys) with a talking software (Nuance Talks..) unfortunately, many new apps such as whatsapp dont work on old nokia phones with the voice software

As everyone has already said, the iPhone is probably the best option. You should check out www.applevis.com for a lot of great resources for using ios devices as a blind person.

Good luck,