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Doro rolls out five new mega-simple handsets
Easily missed amidst the bright lights, festivities, and OLED displays of Mobile World Congress last month was Doro, which makes a handful of ultra (and we mean ultra) basic phones targeting seniors, young'uns, and pretty much anyone else who can't be bothered with actual... you know, "features." Turns out the Swedish company used the occasion to launch not one, not two, but fully five new models, including its first flip -- the 410gsm -- which is apparently a form factor that Doro's customers have been specifically requesting. Also in the mix is the insanely straightforward 334gsm, which foregoes a keypad in favor of speed dial buttons, and three other candybars, the 338gsm, 342gsm, and 345gsm, which are evolutions of the company's older 330gsm design. All five will launch to market in the next six months. [Via Shiny Shiny]
Doro's ridiculously simple phones in the wild
We figure the market for these kinds of things only stands to get bigger as an ever-increasing percentage of folks realize that the only thing they're doing with their music-playing, picture-taking, internet-browsing handsets is making phone calls. England's Doromobile has a line of phones ripe to fit that bill, and Crave's UK outpost recently had the chance to check a couple of the latest models out. The HandleEasy 326gsm is the higher end of the two (though that's not saying much), featuring an honest-to-goodness monochrome display, four dedicated speed dial buttons, giant keys, and that's about it. The HandlePlus 324gsm foregoes the display -- and the numeric keypad, for that matter -- opting for five programmable speed dials (perfect for myFaves, hmm?). The 326gsm is available for £85 (about $175) while the 324gsm comes in at £68 ($140).[Thanks, T.I.]
