Called John’s Phone, this concept is as bare bones as they come. Take too quick a glance and you might confuse it with a beeper.
The “address book” is a pad of paper and a pen. There is no text messaging. There is no calendar. No Angry Birds will be exacting their airborne revenge on its LCD display. Apple, Android and Windows 7 fanboys will not bicker over its specs in cleverly named smartphone forums.
Just simple, no-nonsense phone calls at a level of complexity just above the venerable two cans and a string.
Conveniently, John’s made a compartment in the back to store the address book pad:
KRS1
Monday, October 25, 2010 at 10:12 AMWhen can I line up for it?
Andrew
Monday, October 25, 2010 at 1:12 PMthere would actually be pretty big market for this.
The elderly would love a handset like this. Phones on the lower end, easy to use are lacking in the market these days. not everyone wants a touchscreen more powerful that your home pc.
Art Nau
Monday, October 25, 2010 at 2:19 PMstill gone be overpriced with Telstra’s plans
Ben
Monday, October 25, 2010 at 3:26 PMI would buy one.
Charlie
Monday, October 25, 2010 at 3:56 PMToo many buttons! All those things on the side…
Christian Ancora
Monday, October 25, 2010 at 6:01 PMprobably could have managed to enable it to do sms without much issue… interesting nonetheless.
Steve
Monday, October 25, 2010 at 7:24 PMSorry, expecting a call from 1983
Tom Reynolds
Tuesday, October 26, 2010 at 10:10 AMNeeds a base station and curly cable.
gromit
Tuesday, October 26, 2010 at 10:16 AMLooks like it would be quite a challenge to dial a number from the address book (without physically removing the paper). Maybe they should have labelled the keypad digits in mirror image text!
DK_Son
Tuesday, October 26, 2010 at 11:47 AMThat’ll take us back to 1985 Doc!
Phil Sutherland
Sunday, November 21, 2010 at 12:27 PMWhat we need now are simple plans aimed at telephone users. I have refused to have a mobile phone because i cannot be bothered with the hype
Maybe the system they could try is line rental plus the cost of each individual call – something like 10 cents per call for the first three minutes and no STD rates within Australia
This would be a minor extension of the revolutionary system used by landline phones for best part of a century. It works and it is what most of us want when we get beyond the teenie bopper stage
I’ll fight to get to the front of the queue for this one. Camera on a phone and texting indeed- what a load of cobblers. A phone is a phone!
Sidney
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 10:01 PMif you want a big button phone with a screen, so you can see who your calling, or read text messages
you can buy a simple phone from simplephoneonline.com or seniorphone.com.au
I just bought one and love it