Vmedia aside, Spice planning ultra-cheap phones, too

by Chris Ziegler posted Feb 18th 2008 at 10:43AM

We'd personally spend the extra few bucks to pick up the MOTOFONE's e-ink display, but mad love to Spice for what they're trying to do here nonetheless. The Indian carrier announced a couple other handsets in addition to its crazy Vmedia disc-playing prototype at Mobile World Congress last week, both of which will retail for under $20. "The People's Phone" (which we hope is less painful than The People's Elbow) is about as simple as they come, forgoing a display altogether in an effort to really boil it down to the basics, while The Braille Phone appears to be virtually the same thing with braille simply added to the keys. It seems unlikely that the models will find their way too far outside India proper, though they sure would make interesting backup phones, wouldn't they?

[Via textually.org]

Filed under: Handsets, Others, GSM

Tags: braille, braille phone, BraillePhone, peoples phone, PeoplesPhone, spice, the braille phone, the peoples phone, TheBraillePhone, ThePeoplesPhone

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Nando @ Feb 18th 2008 10:58AM

Colors of the world!!!

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PEZ @ Feb 18th 2008 12:12PM

A backup phone? You can get a gophone or some other carriers junk for under $30 as it is now. I think it should have a one line display, to see mistakes in dialing. No screen whatsoever may make it harder to use. Even the most stupid people's home phones typically have a one line display. Did I mention the one line display?

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Per @ Feb 18th 2008 12:38PM

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.
http://www.wikia.com/wiki/User:Per_B./Open_letter_initiative