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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 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. Done before... by admbws · · Score: 4, Informative

    BTexact did something similar ages ago (SMS for the blind, actually).

  3. 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.

  4. Deaf enabled phone by SWroclawski · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, my girlfriend is deaf and carries a cell phone. It works pretty well.

    She has one of those T-Mobile Sidekick ones where you connect the Internet (web browser, AIM, and even an available SSH client).

    It's actually quite useful. She can get her email, AIM and SMS messages in one place. There are even AIM -> TTY services so she can make "voice" calls on the road.

    It's still a phone too. So if there's some sort of emergency and a hearing person is there- they could use it.

    - Serge