Little Springs Design. 2001 – 2010.

I just wrote about a PDA companion phone. If you take a look at the design specifications again, you'll notice something: the suggested phone would be a good base for a phone for the technologically relectant elderly market. Filling out the specifications, the design might include:

• A scroll control. If you pick up the phone and use the scroll wheel, you are immediately going through your contact list.
• Large-font mode. Use both lines of the display to show a single name.
• Text-to-speech. Read the names of contacts as they are highlighted; do similar announcements for other menu functions. This should be able to be turned off by the user.
• Server push of contacts. Let a more technologically astute relative manage changes to the phone number list.

There are some other features, but you get the idea. What we now have is a large market for this device. Do we have any takers?

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