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Extra-large cell phone aimed at elderly
msnbc.com ^ | 2-7-05 | msnbc

Posted on 02/08/2005 3:46:26 PM PST by 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.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cellphone; czech; elderly; giant; phone; wacky; yugo
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1 posted on 02/08/2005 3:46:26 PM PST by Rakkasan1
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Extra-large cell phone aimed at elderly

Fortunately, it missed them.

2 posted on 02/08/2005 3:47:31 PM PST by ScottFromSpokane (http://drunkengop.blogspot.com/)
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3 posted on 02/08/2005 3:47:56 PM PST by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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4 posted on 02/08/2005 3:48:35 PM PST by cmsgop
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To: ScottFromSpokane

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


5 posted on 02/08/2005 3:50:00 PM PST by Rakkasan1 (no government program is ever a failure-it's just 'underfunded'...)
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To: Hank Rearden

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.

6 posted on 02/08/2005 3:50:44 PM PST by Howlin (It's a great day to be an American -- and a Bush Republican!!!!)
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To: Rakkasan1

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


7 posted on 02/08/2005 3:51:43 PM PST by Dog Gone
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You just know they're gonna pull that thing out when behind the wheel, too. To ask directions. Or where they are.
8 posted on 02/08/2005 3:52:23 PM PST by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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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?


9 posted on 02/08/2005 3:52:24 PM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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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. ;-)


10 posted on 02/08/2005 3:52:30 PM PST by PilloryHillary (Yes, I was JohnFKerrySucks, but it's time to move on. Pillory Hillary!)
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To: Dog Gone

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.


11 posted on 02/08/2005 3:53:20 PM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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OMG, I am just *seeing* my mother with that thing!

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


12 posted on 02/08/2005 3:53:51 PM PST by Howlin (It's a great day to be an American -- and a Bush Republican!!!!)
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To: Rakkasan1

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...


13 posted on 02/08/2005 3:54:38 PM PST by socal_parrot
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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".

14 posted on 02/08/2005 3:55:03 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (The New England Patriots. 2005 World Football Champions. Again.)
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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?

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

15 posted on 02/08/2005 4:07:28 PM PST by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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NotJustAnotherPrettyFace wrote:
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?
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.

16 posted on 02/08/2005 4:11:04 PM PST by cc2k
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To: PilloryHillary

Can you hear me now?

17 posted on 02/08/2005 4:12:10 PM PST by COUNTrecount
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To: Rakkasan1
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)

18 posted on 02/08/2005 4:17:11 PM PST by nothingnew (CNN REPORT: Judge says ready to sit for 6 month Jackson trial: God help us!)
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To: nothingnew

LOL!!!!


19 posted on 02/08/2005 4:29:13 PM PST by Lion in Winter (grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... LION IS HERE... I am in favor of banning WHINERS!!)
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20 posted on 02/08/2005 4:32:57 PM PST by Rakkasan1 (no government program is ever a failure-it's just 'underfunded'...)
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