Spice Corp of India has launched three mobile phones at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. These handsets are cheaper than most dominant brands but do not compromise in features. The cheapest is the people’s phone. For $20 People’s Phone might not have a camera or probably even MP3 playback but it’s got a nice design and form factor. The Braille Phone is the People’s Phone for blind people. Same price. The Movie Phone plays movies on a disc. We have no further details about this but it does have a 2.8-inch screen, which should keep your eyes from squinting too hard watching DVDs.
Per says:
The Braille Phone will make the lifes of many poor blind people much better. Hopefully this device will be sponsored or financed by
philanthropic or microfinance organisations. Mobile technology is a great chance for the many blind people around the world but it must be accessible and affordable. There is an open letter to Nokia, Google, the Open Handset Alliance and to other companies, organisations andpeople from the r&d sector. It’s very difficult to make non-disabled persons interested for the topics. That’s a pitty because only developers, organisations or companies could help to improve the mentioned issues and only the Web and Media could spread the ideas and proposals. It would be very helpful if other parties would report about this important theme as well.
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