Emporia Telecom has formed a strategic retail partnership with Mobile News Awards Best Onine Customer Servce Consumer winner Fonehouse, Fonehouse will launch Emporia’s first 5G device, the £299 ME.6. The handset is aimed at users of any age, which is a change from Emporia’s usual target market of “simple pbones for old people’. The ME.6

Emporia has done a deal with East Anglian golf club Stoke by Nayland to sell its senior-friendly smartphones to players who can use them to enter scores.

Information is provided though quiz style questions and interactive activities

The handset will be available from £125 

The SMART.5 is the vendor’s latest smartphone to launch in the UK

Austrian-based Emporia Telecom launched in the UK last year

The smartphone is the most technologically advanced model yet

The RNIB began retailing its first Emporia device on October 28

The Austrian-based vendor launched in the UK and Ireland earlier this year

Since launching in the UK earlier this year, Emporia has added numerous partnerships

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