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Comparing Big Button Mobile Phones
The Bluechip BC5C is a good phone in that it has a good enough display and big enough buttons to help people who find the vast majority of phones too small and fiddly, but the Doro 505 really does justify the price difference Read More
Smartphones for Seniors
In January it's popular to say "this year is the year of..". So 2013 is the year of the Senior Smartphone. Read More
Orange Israel launches the Gold service
Orange Israel launches an assistance service for seniors. Read More
Smartone launches HelpNow Concierge service
The Smartone HelpNow service is aimed at all ages of people but with the Emporia Elegance as the main non-smartphone it has a senior bias. Read More
US blog on senior mobile phones
The site gives a good US centric view on what is available which is very different to the European market where we don’t have the CDMA 2G technology. This is the system used by the San Diego based operator Jitterbug who sell a special, senior, Samsung phone. Similarly the Samsung Haven, a nice little... Read More
Grandroid!
The Doro 740 is the first Android smartphone for seniors. And they have done a great job making it easy to use. Read More
How Doro turned design into brand
High contrast was a design necessity for Doro but it became part of the band Read More
What are the biggest hurdles in the market for Big Button Mobile Phones?
Albert Fellner tells Senior Market Mobile reporter David McClelland that big buttons alone are not enough for elderly mobile phone users. Read More
Where are the net adds from big button mobile phones?
Everyone has a mobile phone. At least that’s what it looks like. I was trying to reconcile this with the statistic I’d heard that the older market is only 50% penetrated. And then in one of the myriad conversations I have about older people and mobile phones a light came on my head. It... Read More
How big are the buttons on your big button mobile phones‽
One of the great things about talking to customers is that they sometimes ask really obvious things you’ve never thought of before. Like “How big are the buttons on your big button mobile phones‽”. When I worked on What Mobile magazine we used to print all the pictures of phones actual size. In those... Read More