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Korea Times, South Korea
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Mobile Phone Can Read Books
By Kim Tae-gyu, Staff Reporter
LG Electronics, the world's fourth-largest cell phone vendor, has

added

another compelling feature to the mobile handset - reading books for

the

visually impaired.
The Seoul-based company yesterday started marketing the model, the

LF1300,

through LG Telecom, the country's smallest wireless operator, at

around

400,000 won.
Only the blind, visually-impaired and dyslexic can buy the talking

phone

after presenting a government certificate at sales outlets of LG

Telecom.

``The LF1300 is the world's first mobile handset that is capable of
reading
books for the print-disabled, who otherwise could not enjoy them," LG

Vice

President Cho Sung-ha said.
``This is not about making money at all but about contributing to

society.

We will continue to put forth efforts to bridge the digital divide for

the

disabled," Cho said.
Users of the gadget can download approximately 300 audio books from

the

Internet site of LG Sangam Library to their handsets in two ways.
One is to access the digital library's Web site (www.lg.or.kr) on a
computer
specially designed for the blind to get the audio books and transfer

them

to
cell phones.
The other is to download the digital books directly with cell phones
through
the wireless network by touching a hot key on the LF1300 handset. Both
methods are free of charge.
On top of its unique feature of reading books, the LF1300 is not

inferior

to
the contemporary top-line phones in both outlooks and functionalities.
The sleek 16-millimeter-thick gizmo is armed with an MP3 player and a
Bluetooth headset, which enables users to listen to the music or talks
without a cord.
The user interface of the LF1300 is also customized for the blind,
enabling
handset users to control it through a voice guidance system.
However, there is a hitch because the phone's internal memory of 17
megabytes is small even for a single audio book file, which takes up

80 MB

on average.
As a result, a high-volume external memory, which is available at
electronics shops, is a must for the talking book services.
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