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Let's face it. Today's mobile phones just don't cut it for the older folks. They're so packed with cutting-edge features, touchscreens, complex user interfaces, twisty bits, tiny fonts and complex user interface that they are just not suitable for the Luddite generation. So imagine my surprise when, having sung the praises of the farsighted Japanese for making phones for the elderly, a Singapore firm delivers such a handset.

So if you're planning to surprise dear old Dad with a phone he can finally use, check out the iNo CP09 from Foresight Technologies. Straight off, you can tell it's been designed for the elderly in mind: Gianormous buttons, large fonts and ringtones loud enough to wake the dead. The display may be one-line and in yesteryear's monochrome, but this helps extend battery life, plus the big fonts are really easy to read.