Nov 5 2009This Isn't Your Grandma's Cell Phone! Yes It Is.
If there's one thing old people love it's soft food. If there's another it's stuff with giant-ass buttons so they can push the right one with their shaky, arthritic fingers. Aaaaaand I've officially depressed myself. Good times. Anyway, this is a cell phone for old people and people with fat fingers. Or, as we like to call them in the hand modeling biz, Vienna digits.
The 6380 Senior Mobile Phone ($75 USD) does actually have a few handy features, including a built in flashlight, and a giant "SOS" button on the back that can automatically dial a pre-set emergency number, and emit a loud warning alarm. It's also got a minimal display with large on-screen fonts, and a whopping 128×60 screen resolution.
I kind of want one. Not that I have fat fingers, because I don't. I'm just clumsy. One time I tried ordering a pizza and ended up spending an hour on a phone sex line. DAMN YEAH I WANT PEPPERONI ON THAT!
Hit the jump for two more shots of the latest in geriatric communication technology.
giant button cell phone for seniors (and simpletons) [technabob]
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Reader Comments
1. Wha?! - November 5, 2009 1:01 PM
Sucka Sucka.
2. Closet Nerd - November 5, 2009 1:03 PM
Q: What do old people smell like?
A: Depends
3. Timbo - November 5, 2009 1:03 PM
A must have for every old person in my life...
4. Jaded Icon - November 5, 2009 1:03 PM
An SOS button? Hmm...something the iphone doesn't come with. Although I'm sure theres an app for that.
5. Closet Nerd - November 5, 2009 1:06 PM
I can just see an old person accidentally setting off the SOS button in their pocketbook, and then lookiaround at everyone else as if to say "What the hell is that noise?! Turn it off eh-hole!"
6. Ciao - November 5, 2009 1:13 PM
I would also suppose the SOS button works well with people with sausage fingers, for reasons I don't want to say - it may sound too mean. :B
@5 lolz
7. Jessica Chobot - November 5, 2009 1:24 PM
LOL- this sucker looks like a calculator!
8. LSDiesel - November 5, 2009 1:25 PM
@2, nice.
Grandma! What big buttons you have!
9. catch22 - November 5, 2009 1:27 PM
"can you hear me now"?
"ive fallen..... and I cant get up"
10. Freddy K - November 5, 2009 1:39 PM
Does come with unlimited texting? Because my grandma is a texting FREAK.
11. Legion - November 5, 2009 1:43 PM
Death, be all but proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful. I am Legion for we are many...
12. Freddy K - November 5, 2009 2:00 PM
Legion - please go and inhabit the swine. We will all like you better when you do that.
13. naas - November 5, 2009 2:00 PM
do not press the red button, look at what happened to the jet fighter pilot yesterday
14. Ollie Williams - November 5, 2009 2:00 PM
I'm curious to know what kind of "multimedia" this phone has.
15. mudbuttjones - November 5, 2009 2:10 PM
i seriously want this phone. i dont want a damn computer in my pocket, i just want a simple phone.
i am 20 years old not 80 btw
16. CharlO - November 5, 2009 2:39 PM
Grandmas also has big boobs.
17. Jess - November 5, 2009 3:05 PM
How is this different from the JitterBug phone?
18. awngf - November 5, 2009 3:15 PM
Where's the ultra-loud speaker?!??
thats a must have on this
19. Krys - November 5, 2009 7:32 PM
@15 same here. but I would most likely get one without the SOS button.
20. Red Wine Extract - November 6, 2009 1:25 AM
Thats very nice cell..........It will definately help the old people who lives alone.
21. prada shoes - November 6, 2009 1:56 AM
nice cell
22. free online adventure games - November 6, 2009 3:13 AM
I think I should get one for my grandma..
23. Ebee - November 6, 2009 7:57 AM
This reminds me of the big button remote control for the tv, but i dont think that one has a sos button. I think i am going to create a big button computer keyboard, you know those old people and their computer games, facebook, twitter, posting youtube videos, i think a big button keyboard would make it easier for them.
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24. NVG - November 6, 2009 11:12 PM
MULTIMEDIA?
Yeah, the buttons are big, but the screen is still unreadable by granny standards. She's still gonna ask you to text Aunt Jemima.
25. Aline - November 14, 2009 9:39 PM
A SOS button... Smart.
26. Sleepy dude - November 17, 2009 9:24 AM
This is awesome I need to get this phone right now, I hate using those tiny keyboard buttons. Still waiting for voice activation to be decent so an gui is not even needed.