Monday, October 3, 2011

Braille mobile phone

INTEX Intex Mobiles Technology has introduced a mobile phone for the visually impaired in India recently. The phone has been launched by the National Association for the Blind (NAB) among students. According to NAB, which is one of the largest non-governmental organizations in India, there are 12 million visually impaired people in the country and Intex believes the device could help empower them. Intex phones known as the Vision comes with braille keyboard with large buttons for ease of use that is due. The keyboard can also be pressed to speak numbers in English. In the meantime, it is also equipped with an emergency SOS button that can store four emergency numbers when consumers are faced with situations that require immediate assistance.