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Would You Expect a Touch-Screen for 50 Bucks?

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ABI Research finds that nearly half of the 40- to 59-year-olds it surveyed expected to find a touch-screen on a $50 phone, which may not be so outlandish after all. What hardly any respondents cared about were in-phone stereo loudspeakers and turn-by-turn directions.
– Are older people out of touch?

When a survey by ABI Research questioned 1,015 U.S.
mobile phone users which features they expected to find on a $50 phone, nearly
half of the respondents in the 40 to 59 age bracket said they expected a touch-screen.

The survey, conducted in February, aimed to disc…