Life phone targets retiree market

What happens when you get older, your hearing starts to fail you, and you tend to confuse trees with people from afar? Why, using one of those new-fangled cellphones will do nothing but add to your frustration as you end up taking pictures with the built-in camera instead of making a call due to the convoluted user interface. The Life phone aims to change that, featuring an orange-backlit screen, an extra strong vibration function, and a big red emergency button that calls a pre-programmed number when pressed. You won’t find anything fancy like music and video playback or a digital camera – the Life phone is just meant to make and receive calls as well as text messages. The Life phone will be sold worldwide this May.