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Nokia launches Braille Reader app

Nokia has launched a mobile phone application that lets blind people read text messages. Can't see the video? Download Flash Player from Adobe.com The application requires the user’s phone to have a vibration mode, Nokia said, because it essentially turns the characters of a text message into Braille. Nokia Braille Reader …

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But why?

Some Nokia phones can already read your messages out to you in computer voice. I don't see the point...

Blind and deaf?

Most people that were blind but not deaf would surely prefer people to actually call them rather than text!

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