Disposable Cellular
Phones By the End of This Year?

A small company in San Francisco hopes to cash in on the disposable nature of American society through its manufacturing and marketing of cellular phones that have batteries that can be used and thrown away.

Telespree Communications is working on a phone that has clip-on batteries that keep time, and once that time is used up, you have no more phone access. It will be a pay before using phone.

Furthermore, it will be voice recognition only; no dialing is needed or possible. A user would tell the phone who to call, and it will dial that person's number. The company is suggesting that this would be excellent for children to have once they are out of school.

These phones will be marketed to parents, seniors, and youths. The phones are to be less complex to operate than the present cellular phones. The programming of these phones to dial a particular number by voice recognition will probably take quite a bit of battery life, since it seemingly is the batteries they are selling and not the phones. It seems as if the company will be giving away the phones.

We will wait to see if there is any real benefit and if that benefit is cost effective.
[ Well, the year has come to an end, and no phones are on the market yet.] []