Last but not least: The smartphone that can do absolutely nothing
Smartphones are really great. But they’re not exactly kosher. After all, they constantly tempt the devout. An Israeli phone company has now developed a special smartphone that has the rabbis’ blessing.
Revolutionary features of the "kosher" smartphone are the large selection of religious ringtones and the Yiddish-language menu. A whole four months of translation work went into this. And that with a target group of 300,000 to 400,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews. In addition, various barriers were built in so as not to tempt users: no SMS function, camera, Internet access, Facebook or e-mail. Making calls on the Sabbath is also excessively expensive. Wonderful. The only question that remains is whether this thing can even be called a smartphone with so much limited functionality.
