KDDI will offer "Easy Menu" free of charge to smartphones, for seniors and beginners

From the autumn / winter 2010 model, each mobile phone company is embarking on aggressive sales of Android smartphones, but its problem of becoming a problem by all means its operability.

Especially for seniors who are familiar with feature phones, smartphones seem to have no choice but to be caught as "a troublesome thing that needs to remember the operation from scratch", but KDDI is aimed at seniors and beginner users Towards,"Easy Menu"Free of charge.

Details are as below.
Offering "Easy Menu" for au's Android (TM) equipped smartphone | 2011 | KDDI CORPORATION

According to the press release of KDDI, from June 1, 2011, the company will be able to change the design of the home screen and the button operation in an easy-to-understand manner so that it can be easily used even by users who use the smartphone for the first time and even by senior users, It is said that we will start offering "Easy Menu" home application for Android smartphone.

"Easy Menu" is that you can easily change the design of the home screen and buttons to be easy to see with big display, easy to push, by simply downloading and setting the application, "1" popular in the "easy mobile" series By pressing the "2" "3" key, "one touch key" which can call the registered number in advance is displayed, and the access lead to the frequently used function is simplified.

Normal menu (left) and easy menu (right) are arranged side by side. We have adopted a large-sized button which enlarged the size of icons and fonts, clearly contrasted color and easy to see, and long eliminated pushing and flicking manually.


I tried displaying a map. You can display the map just by tapping three times.


The menu will be offered from Wednesday, June 1, free of charge. The corresponding model at the time of provision is Sharp made Android smart phones "IS03" and "IS05".