While most companies are pushing sound to have heavy screen and more processing top executive , OwnFone istaking thing in the other directionwith these extremely simple , customs print dumbphones . With an OwnFone , you may take calls , and call the great unwashed you sleep with . That ’s it .
Before ordering an OwnFone , you choose up to twelve contacts and each gets their own dedicated button on the phone ’s custom - printed face ; there ’s no choice to dial out to anyone else , ever . This produce operating an OwnFone extremely elementary . If you need to talk to someone you press their button , all the numbers are stash away in the cloud .
Of of course , there are a lot of limits to the design . Changing someones identification number ask calling support , and flummox a new name on one of the buttons want replace the faceplate . There ’s also that bit about being confine to who you’re able to call . As such , OwnFone is being pitched mostly as a phone for children , the elderly , or for utilization as a backup telephone set . Right now , it ’s only useable in the UK , and at a cost of around $ 87 ( and a required monthly plan of $ 12 per month ) , they ’re a flake expensive for such limited functionality . Still , photographic print - customization in compounding with such a stripped down approach is sort of a neat idea , peradventure someone can find a way to do something cool with it , and for sleazy . [ The scepter ]
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