[Rakkasan1]

[ScottFromSpokane]

Extra-large cell phone aimed at elderly

Fortunately, it missed them.

[Hank Rearden]

[cmsgop]

[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.

[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. ;-)

[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".

[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)

[BigLittle]

Mine looks small by comparison

[gura]

[knews_hound]

Cracking me up over here bump to you all.

Cheers,

knews hound

[farmfriend]

Snickering.

[NYC GOP Chick]

Instead of making extra large cell phones for old people, they should be looking into making cars that have properly functioning brakes, gas pedals and steering wheels in cars that are sold to the oldsters, because every damn time one of them plows into a crowd or otherwise takes out some innocent people, they *always* swear up and down that it was faulty brakes/gas pedal/steering wheel.

We need to crack down on whoever is conspiring to sell dangerous cars to the elderly!