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Monday, December 04, 2006
When I'm 64...
For Puzzled Seniors Only describes two products that can come in handy for elderly, whether they are listening to Beatles or not:
Samsung Jitterbug
Available in two models A110 and A120, without and with numeric keys. The one without uses a few keys to call predefined numbers. Both support predefined numbers though. Everything's large, as can be seen in this video.
HP Printing Mailbox
Is inherently a printer, but that calls up a mail server via an async modem and pulls out possible e-mails and prints them. Sounds very much like a fax machine, and there are low-cost e-mail-to-fax services, and also fax-to-e-mail services, so this is an alternative to using a standard fax machine. A clear drawback is that it's not possible to send messages from this device. At Axis Communications I was responsible for the development of a device that did just that: Connected to a low-cost scanner it converted anything scanned to e-mails. See here: Axis Network Document Server.
Samsung Jitterbug
Available in two models A110 and A120, without and with numeric keys. The one without uses a few keys to call predefined numbers. Both support predefined numbers though. Everything's large, as can be seen in this video.
HP Printing Mailbox
Is inherently a printer, but that calls up a mail server via an async modem and pulls out possible e-mails and prints them. Sounds very much like a fax machine, and there are low-cost e-mail-to-fax services, and also fax-to-e-mail services, so this is an alternative to using a standard fax machine. A clear drawback is that it's not possible to send messages from this device. At Axis Communications I was responsible for the development of a device that did just that: Connected to a low-cost scanner it converted anything scanned to e-mails. See here: Axis Network Document Server.
