The concept of "winter" mobile phone

Comrades from Western blogs recently dug up on the Web an entertaining concept of a “winter” mobile phone designed for users living in “cold countries”. The idea of ​​such a mobile phone occurred to the designer Yuta Watanabe in 2006, but for obvious reasons, it has not lost relevance.

Winters, even in countries with a temperate climate, often happen such that it’s not scary to walk without gloves - to take one of them to dial the number. Coldly. So Watanabe thought: “but what if the manufacturer offers a concept device with huge buttons (so that you can dial the number in gloves) and made of durable plastic?”

Given the general trend towards miniaturization of portable devices, on the keyboard of which it is often difficult to see buttons, such a “winter” concept looks awkward and even ugly. But from a practical point of view, a Canadian farmer who is not prone to “gadzhetmanii” may well become a potential buyer of such a pipe.

As noted at Gizmodo , the value of this concept lies not only in itself. But, as an option, this is in some way a question for producers about when they will start producing devices designed for use in certain climatic zones or, more promising, focused on certain socio-cultural groups. .

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By the way, in search of additional information on the "winter" concept, I came across an interesting device called Doro. This is the “ world's easiest cell phone ”, designed for preschoolers, old people and people who for some reason are not able to handle modern devices. Nice such a thing, with a total of 7 hefty buttons (5 reprogrammable digital, call and hang up).

via Gizmodo