New Phones for Old People

With all mobile phones now everything to all men including a phone, what is a photograph worth in words? I can take a photograph with my telephone that has better resolution than my camera; I only bought the camera last year. I can send it to people or upload it to my computer, it can be my new 'wall paper' if I want before the end of the day. I can do things with my telephone that I could only do with 50 gadgets, but there is a problem. I can not make it work, yes there are instructions, lots, yes there are people who would love to show me how to work it, but the thing is so small that I have trouble with the keys. Yes, I know, but I spent money and time learning to touch type with two hands on a real keyboard, and now I have to use this touch sensitive key pad to do everything and the buttons are so close and it is press this then that... I did work out how to cancel the password, I have to remember so many now that it is getting a bit generic, and set the language, time and date, it uploads my contacts from my Outlook, it even has emails on it, I tried a link and I got a webpage.

I have been told to go onto a Blackberry, but I have seen the keypad on that and it is not much better. This technology is not just for the young, nimble fingered youth, it is also needed by us more mature people, how about a touch screen and stick? I could go for that. I remember some of the older models that were a bit meatier (or just bigger if you want to be picky), I would love to have some thing solid like that again, something I can hold and see. I have met a few of my lady acquaintances who have similar phones to mine and when we get down to it they only use them as phones, all the extras are wasted on them, if they are out with their children they find that they are always letting them use it to do things, like take photographs. What we need is a fashion of phones that distinguish, without prejudice or spite, the different needs of the users. Why am I paying for a telephone that does all these things if I do not use them? I want a telephone that is just for calls, takes voice messages and let's say text.

I do not want to feel inferior if I do not use all the features, I do not want to scream if I hit the wrong button and send something to someone who did not need to know that, see that or hear that. I want a Retro phone, a Phone Classic or something like that, with a screen I can see, buttons I can manipulate and a little bit heftier than the lightweight ones we have these days. Why heavier, I had one in my hand and a drink in the other, I spilled the drink and the phone was so small and light I could put it in my palm and us a tissue to clean up the spill, I then put the tissue in the bin and walked off, I also put the phone in there to. So as a consumer of Technology, as a user of Technology, can we please have something more for 'words' than 'pictures'?