A MOBILE phone for OAPs who are flummoxed by technology has been launched.
The gadget has only a few buttons including three on speed dial with name labels for friends or family.
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It has red and green buttons to answer or end calls and an SOS switch on the back which uses GPS to send out the owner’s location.
Swedish firm Doro, which specialises in gadgets for the over-65s, devised the phone after requests by customers.
Its Doro 780X, which sells for around £130, has menu buttons for those setting up the phone, or if OAPs get confident — but the idea is that they do not use them.
Doro boss Peter Marsden said that the phone worked “in the most straightforward way possible”.
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Stuart Miles, of the Pocket-lint tech website, said: “Many want the biggest, brightest screens, fastest brains, triple cameras, apps and games.
“For others, especially older folk who did not grow up with technology, that’s overwhelming.
“They want a phone for what phones were originally designed for.”
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