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Fujitsu Raku Raku - a smartphone for pensioners

07.01.2013

Fujitsu is going to offer elderly people in the US and Europe an easy-to-use smartphone codenamed Raku Raku. For the first time about the device became known last summer, when the phone began to be sold in the salons of the largest Japanese mobile operator NTT Docomo. According to the Asahi Shimbun, Fujitsu CEO Masami Yamamoto previously said that the company does not plan to sell this smartphone outside the domestic market, despite the fact that this would help increase shipments from 8 million units in 2012 to a projected 10 million in 2014.

The phone runs a modified version of the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich mobile operating system and is equipped with a 4-inch touch screen with a resolution of 480x800 pixels, a 1,4 GHz processor, an 8-megapixel rear camera and a 0,3-megapixel front camera. The smartphone uses large icons, virtual buttons and fonts, and the home screen displays only the most important applications, including the dialer, phone book, email and weather widget.

In addition, the smartphone provides protection against accidental taps on the screen, as well as the function of suppressing noise and slowing down speech, thanks to which older users can clearly understand what the interlocutor is saying to them. Whether these functions will be preserved in the international version of the device is not yet clear. Also, the date of the arrival of Raku Raku in American and European stores is still unknown. Fujitsu will announce more details about the release at a later date.

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