Technology
Smartphones are
spreading explosively worldwide. However, the elderly sometimes have difficulty
handling them because they require initial setting as if they are a PC. Fujitsu
developed a smartphone specially designed for the elderly. The company selected
Google’s Android for its operating system. Besides simplifying the setting, the
company narrowed down the preinstalled functions and incorporated the microphone
technology to compensate high notes that people have difficulty hearing as they
get older.
With the help of
cloud computing, the new smartphone offers various services and functions. It
allows the users to provide their health management data to medical institutions
by letting them working with scales and sphygmomanometer, record exercise
volume using the built-in pedometer and sensor, and transmit the usage history
of the elderly automatically to their family members to keep them informed of
their whereabouts. The company is scheduled to put the new smartphone on the
domestic market this summer, and in the U.S. and Europe toward the end of this
year. It plans to increase the shipments of mobile phone 30% to10 million
mobiles phones in 2013.
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