Not all the manufacturers have realized that there's a huge market out there for people who are just interested in making and receiving phone calls, no need for advanced and complicated devices, which are used only at 5% of what they could really offer. There's also a huge market comprised of elderly users, not at all the tech-savvy type, for which producers should remember to keep things simple, as simple as possible.

Designer Vadim Kibardin obviously has a different approach of how simple mobile phones should look and be handled. The very slim, silvery Freedom Phone designed by him is meant to be either a replacement pre-paid phone for travelers who cannot use their usual mobile phones while being abroad, or it could be a solution for those users who just don't need all the fancy features a last-generation phone has to offer.

The Freedom Phone features a unique design and comes without a display, only has the 0-9 string of digits and two keys for "+" and "-", which I imagine are meant to adjust the volume. The phone comes without a SIM card and comes in with 60, 100 or 200 prepaid minutes. There's no fuss remembering Roaming tariffs, no extra prefixes to remember when being abroad, you have complete Freedom when calling home. The phone basically requires no need to be set up in any way other than being charged, a very 'complex' operation which will take up to 10 minutes and after that you're ready to talk your heart away.

All the information you need to know, like the phone number and the most important services are listed on the back of the device. Clever move! This is definitely the most stylish basic phone that's come out lately, maybe the opposite of the Motorola F3 Motofone, a device more complicated than many "ordinary" mobile phones around.