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Orange and Fujitsu launch Grandroid phone
With significant innovations aimed at older people the Stylistic 1 has buttons you can't press by mistake, improved audio and an emergency alarm. On sale in France from June. 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
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
Making ‘Droid* Easy to use mobile phones
A Hackathon, organised by London Android Group and the RNIB. to build, overnight, apps which make life easier for visually impaired users. Read More
Winners: the Vodafone Smart Accessibility Awards
A common mantra at Fuss Free Phones is that there is more to easy to use mobiles than just big button phones. Vodafone has championed this with the Smart Accessibility awards under which entrants competed for a share of a €200,000 prize by producing an Android app which would help less able people make... Read More
Looking for 65 year old (technology) virgins.
A Durham University project is looking at what enable seniors to use or give up on using different types of technology. Read More
Vodafone Looks beyond big button mobiles for easy to use phones
Competing for a €200,000 prize looking for applications which will improve the lives of the aging population and those with disabilities. Read More
Lessons Learned From Senior Market Mobile 2011
Wrap-up form the conference on mobile phones for Seniors. An overview of what was discussed and caution for how the market has to mature. Read More
The best smartphone for seniors
Is software the way forward for big button phones? can they be made easier to use than traditional phones? Read More