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An amazing cell phone
June 25, 2007
Tomorrow’s cell phone will entertain, amaze, and even make phone calls, said Anil Kripalani, Qualcomm senior VP for global technology affairs, as I reported from the International Microwave Symposium earlier this month. One such supposedly amazing and entertaining device—the Apple iPhone—will go on sale on Friday.
But one amazing device is already available: the Jitterbug. What’s amazing about it? Farhad Manjoo at Salon has the details: “The Jitterbug takes calls and makes calls, and that's it. Now that's thinking different.”
Manjoo has some more details. The device is large: “Flipped open, the phone stretches from your ear to your mouth,” and “The numbers on the dial pad are shockingly, comically large—you can make them out from 5 feet away.” But perhaps most shocking of all, the phone provides a dial tone.
Manjoo writes that Arlene Harris, who dreamed up the Jitterbug, said the phone is designed to serve the millions of senior citizens who are too scared to pick up the more complicated phones that their sons and daughters have given them.
Posted by Rick Nelson on June 25, 2007 | Comments (0)
