What mobile phone should you buy for your elderly grandmother for example, who isn't interested in flashing lights, screens and complex menu systems, but she is used to an ordinary-looking phone? Or perhaps how is a multi touch interface going to be helpful to a blind consumer. An Indian company Spice recently showed a $20 Braille Phone. Currently a lot of blind persons around the world are using Nokia devices because for a few years there have been two professional - albeit expensive - screen reader software products for the S60 Symbian platform.

Samsung showed off a concept Braille phone a long time ago, but it did not make it to the market as far as I know. It's obvious that the market for simple phones is huge who don't have a camera, a thermometer, a fridge and a breathalyzer all rolled into one useless device that makes calls too.

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