Samsung’s Touch Messenger braille phone takes home the gold
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Tuesday, July 4, 2006 by Michael Kwan
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Samsung has always been quick to claim the world’s firsts, world’s thinnest, world’s biggest or world’s smallest title, but now they have another claim to fame. They can say that at least a few of their products are “excellent”, because the Touch Messenger Braille mobile phone has taken home the Gold at the Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA).
Instead of being developed in their home Korea, the Touch Messenger was rather the creation of the Samsung’s Chinese wing based out of Shanghai. While TTY and similar solutions for the deaf have been on the market for ages, this innovative handset allows “blind users to send and receive Braille text messages.”
They want to reach out to every segment of the market, including the visually impaired. In this way, it is said that the Touch Messenger is in line with the company’s mantra of “human-oriented high-tech products.”
My mother is blind. Most of her life. I am asking where i can take her to see(feel) one of these phones. She and some of her friends are interested in knowing how this phone would work and how much they are. I ask that you would please contact me and let me know and how to get more information on this phone. you can send me email at kis2kele@yahoo.com