Hi: I only managed to find one page on the site about the phone, and that was in the news section. http://www.owasys.com/accesible_en/new14.html If there's an actual product page, I'd like to know where it is. As much as I like the idea of a phone that's designed for our needs and that runs Linux, I have to say that I have the same reservations as I do about any custom solutions rather than adaptations of regular devices. How long will it take this phone to become out of date? How speedy will development of the next model be? How long will it continue to be developed, given the relatively small returns from a niche market? An accessible solution from a major phone manufacturer is bound to have a longer lifespan and be kept up to date more, due to the fact that it's only one of an entire product line which can and is being used by everyone (well most). We saw the same with sharp products. They made excellent talking clocks, calculators, even talking video remotes. But each product went off the market. Why? Because, I'm guessing, of the relatively small returns that came from the R&D money required to develop them. If one of, say, Nokia's phones was shipped with accessibility features built in, then it would be snapped up by not only us, but the average Joe on the street, as phones are. The average user would just be buying it because it was the next new phone, but their doing so would (1) help to keep the price down (by dividing the extra development costs among more buyers), and (2) ensure its continued success due to more people buying it. Disclaimer: I am not an economist, nor do I pretend to have studied any form of economics. It just seems like common sense to me. Geoff.
