8/15/2005

NTT DoCoMo to Release Mobile Phone Handset Able to Slow Down Speakers’ Voice Speed
DoCoMo will release a mobile phone handset able to slow down speakers’ voice speed on the phone in August 2005. The key targeted users are the elderly. The speed converter technology used in the handset slows down speakers’ voice speed up to 0.7x, so the listener can feel like that the speakers’ dialogue goes slowly….

Gee, what can I say? Say… except I wanna give these DoCoMope’s a dope slap to the head.
1st: The buttons are too small. The elderly need buttons THREE times bigger. Just imagine trying to type in a phone number wearing a oven mit. That’s what it’s like to use a cell phone.
2nd: The screen needs to be larger as well as clearer.
3rd: The speaker needs to have 5watts of ghetto-blasting power like a minature stereo system.
4th: The angry-fruit-salad screen interface needs to be much less cluttered.
5th: Those three times larger buttons….make them double that size.

Shame on you DoCoMo! Check out Tuka’s proper cellphone the elderly the Tuka S (ツーカーS)…. “S” as in simple.