Extra-large cell phone aimed at elderly

msnbc.com ^ | 2-7-05 | msnbc

[Rakkasan1]

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Targeting elderly customers, a Czech company has started manufacturing extra large cellular phones, an official said Monday. advertisement The company, Jablotron, said it had noticed older people sometimes have difficulties when using cell phones, which tend to be smaller and smaller.

[Rakkasan1]

[ScottFromSpokane]

Extra-large cell phone aimed at elderly

Fortunately, it missed them.

[Hank Rearden]

[cmsgop]

[Rakkasan1]

yeah. would hate to get hit by a giant yellow phone on wheels.

[Howlin]

The phone at right may look like a conventional desktop phone, but it's really a special cellular phone designed for the elderly by Czech manufacturer Jablotron. At left is a conventionally sized cell phone.

Hmmm.........some people are gonna need a bigger purse.

[Dog Gone]

They are getting ridiculously small. Just because you can make a smaller phone, or car, or television doesn't mean that everyone wants one.

[Hank Rearden]

You just know they're gonna pull that thing out when behind the wheel, too. To ask directions. Or where they are.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

My father-in-law has very arthritic hands (knuckles are bent). While he's not likely to use a cell phone, he could really use a computer keyboard with bigger keys for the letters/numbers. Anybody out there know of one?

[PilloryHillary]

This is a good marketing idea. A lot of older people have macular degeneration (as my mother in law does) and cannot see well enough to use a cellphone. This would help a lot of people. Besides that, older ladies carry big purses, so it shouldn't be a problem. ;-)

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

I actually liked the FEEL of my previous cell phone better. It was easier to hold. This new flip phone I have slips out of my hands WAY too easily.

[Howlin]

OMG, I am just *seeing* my mother with that thing!

Over the river and through the woods, like Grandmother use to drive!

[socal_parrot]

I think I still have my first mobile phone from the early 80's. It's the size of a shoe box with a handset with a coiled cord.

I was cool though.


Sigh...

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

When I was in the CellPhone biz a decade ago, there was a company by the name of Walker Electronics which marketed a very inexpensive handheld cell phone. It was produced to compete against the more expensive Motorola 8000 (brick phone) and the newly released Uniden 5000.

This Walker phone was cheap and it did a creditable job...but it was so big...it looked like one of those WWII walkie-talkies you used to see Vic Morrow use in the TV series "Combat".

[Hank Rearden]

My father-in-law has very arthritic hands (knuckles are bent). While he's not likely to use a cell phone, he could really use a computer keyboard with bigger keys for the letters/numbers. Anybody out there know of one?

Found this in about 5 seconds. Google "large keyboard" for many more. Good luck!

[cc2k]

NotJustAnotherPrettyFace wrote:

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My father-in-law has very arthritic hands (knuckles are bent). While he's not likely to use a cell phone, he could really use a computer keyboard with bigger keys for the letters/numbers. Anybody out there know of one?

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Here you go.
BigKeys/BIGtrack Combo!

There are others. That was one of the first hits on Google when I entered "large key keyboard" for a search.

Click the pic for a link.

[COUNTrecount]

Can you hear me now?

[nothingnew]

I don't have a cell phone myself but have used others peoples c-phones. Most of them were so small they fell into my ear canal, and for dialing, my fingers are rather large and hitting those itsy-bitsy number pads one at a time, I would've been better of using my johnson.....

FMCDH(BITS)

[Lion in Winter]

LOL!!!!

[Rakkasan1]