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Mobile Phone for the Blind

Posted by michael on from the ringtone dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Owasys - a Spanish company - is launching a mobile phone for the blind next week. No visual display as a speech synthesiser reads everything that appears on the screen out loud. Also speaks the name and number of incoming callers."

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  1. I stand corrected. by Locky · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here I thought Mobile Phones couldn't get anymore annoying.

    1. Re:I stand corrected. by Pingular · · Score: 2, Funny

      Here I thought Mobile Phones couldn't get anymore annoying.
      This is for anyone that's seen Trigger Happy TV.
      YEAH HI. YEAH. IM... SHIT I DON'T KNOW WHERE I AM.

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    2. Re:I stand corrected. by KarmaPolice · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's exactly what I was thinking. But just think: Now when you hear people's cell phones during a movie, [...]
      Blind people at the movies?? Are you drunk?

  2. Hopefully it'll sell well! by SkOink · · Score: 3, Funny

    I mean, those guys a must be pretty deep in the hole after trying to market that cell-phone for the deaf... ::ducks::

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  3. Slight privacy issue by RighteousFunby · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just imagine...at home, wife and kids asleep, when all of a sudden your phone bellows:

    "DIALLING QUICKDIAL 1: HOT HORNY HOUSEWIFE LINE"

    Or if you're playing away from home...

    "Contact MISS PERT BREASTS is calling!"

    in front of wifey.
    Oh, the possibilities :)

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  4. This should make Messaging Spam entertaining... by Maestro4k · · Score: 4, Funny
    I can see it now, you're sitting in the board room, the CEO is giving a talk about how the company's needing to cut costs and suddenly your phone beeps with an incoming message which it proceeds to read to you...

    "Incoming message: 'Did you know you can increase your penis size overnight? ....'"

    Of course then you'd at least be able to prove monetary damages due to the spam, since you lost your job over it....

    Funny, but rather scary too.