Cellphones for Aging Technophobe Geezers

(((Say, that's some pretty snappy design writing there – and by no less a man than Jesse James Garrett.)))

Link: A Cell Phone for Baby Boomers.

...when you open a Jitterbug phone it emits—get this—a dial tone. "If there's no dial tone, you can't make a call," Harris says. To reach a Jitterbug operator, who can place calls or answer questions for you, dial 0.

Getting Back to Basics

Some elements of Jitterbug's industrial design may seem like quaint throwbacks, such as an earpiece that actually covers your ear and a microphone next to your mouth, not somewhere around your cheekbone....