14 DAY TRIAL // Toshiba and Vodafone unveiled the new Toshiba V502T with a "Limit Mode" function that limits the available functions to only three: the phone, the digital camera and the email.
Toshiba says they are targeting the elderly - who have difficulty in understanding phone functions and young children.
The menu can be personalized to contain only the features that are used while discarding the rest. You can even increase the size of the menu characters to make it easier to read. The phone also has a "night mode"; if the parent of a child does not want the handset to be used after a certain time then the phone shuts itself off and becomes operable only by a password during this time.
The handset does have decent specifications - a 262,000 color TFT display (primary) with a secondary, external display which is of 65,536 colors. The V502T is also equipped with a 1.3 megapixel camera. The phone offers audio playback functions and supports AAC files. Once the files are transferred to your MiniSD card, the device acts as an MP3 player. The phone is 2.5G (so no 3G), measures 51x103x20mm and weighs 119g.
No word yet on when will be available or how much it will cost.