14 DAY TRIAL // The South Korean mobile phone manufacturer LG Electronics has developed a cell phone, the Cyon LF-1300, capable to read e-books, especially for all you visually impaired people out there. And this is not all the good news. They decided, at least in South Korea, to offer all visually impaired and dyslexic users a very low price, so they can afford such a useful technology.
The device is a 0.6 inch thick slider, milky white colored, and features a voice guidance system for the persons which can't use the phone's keypad. The LF-1300 owners can download on their phones for free a number of almost 300 e-books from the LG's digital library website, through the wireless network available through a special hot key placed on the phone.
Besides being able to read e-books with the help of its text-to-speech functions, e-books that you can store on its 17 MB of internal memory or on to a microSD memory card, the handset also has a bult-in MP3 player and a headset, so users can listen to their favorite MP3s or talk without being forced to have a dangling cord around their necks.
Another very useful feature of the LF-1300 is the Bluetooth connectivity which can make the cell phone a walkie talkie under a range of 100 meters.
Song Keun-Yong , the LG spokesman, said that "the LF-1300 is the world's first mobile handset capable of reading books for the blind. This is part of our efforts to contribute to society".
The handset was released on the South Korean mobile phone market this week, and is available for purchase at a price of 417 $.