Good evening!  I'm Kerry J Harrison at the business desk and this evening I'd like to republish an article that I found a few days ago.  I'm particularly interested in the contents of this article because it talks about a break through in technology and I honestly feel that if it gets to market it can potentially benefit millions of consumers worldwide.

I hope you find this article interesting and I wish you a very enjoyable evening. 

Mobile Phone Can Read Books
By Kim Tae-gyu, Staff Reporter
Korea Times, South Korea, September 19, 2006
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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