TOKYO —
NTT Docomo on Aug 1 will start selling the Raku-Raku SMART PHONE, the first smartphone designed for users who are new to touchscreen operations.
The Raku-Raku SMART PHONE’s touch screen mimics the impression of a conventional phone key, allowing users to first confirm where their finger is touching by highlighting the contact point and then requiring them to press more strongly to actually select the menu button or icon. The device confirms the selection with a slight vibration and click.
The smartphone boasts a generous 4-inch display with a simplified menu and large fonts for increased clarity and ease of use. The menu has three large, easy-to-understand buttons for the most commonly used functions - phone, email and phonebook - and also includes three programmable one-touch speed dial buttons. Additionally, users can access a dedicated telephone support center at the touch of a button on the home screen.
As a special introductory offer, a dedicated new “Raku-Raku Pake-hodai” flat-rate packet service will start with the launch of the Raku-Raku SMART PHONE, at the discounted rate of just 2,980 yen per month.
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sensei258 at Aug. 02, 2012 - 07:47AM JST
My 4 year old grand daughter knows how to use an iPhone way better than me. Maybe I should get one of these. LOL
ebisen at Aug. 04, 2012 - 06:45AM JST
My 85 year old grandmother can use both an iPhone and an iPad. She can browse, use facetime, call (of course), skype and watch online photos of nephews.
Any Android phone can be programmed to show simplified menus, with the most useful functions being given importance
Are they sure this phone is not for mentally challenged?
TakahiroDomingo at Aug. 08, 2012 - 11:48PM JST
incredibly, in this beautiful land of techno-fetishism, the poor japanese people have been under total lock-down and control of some few telephone companies that gave them crap for phones for years, just stupid button phones. now phones are computers, and japan is trying to catch up. samsung, regardless of if they are proven to be copycats or not, have left japan so far behind...