Strongly recommend Ashton Applewhite's new "This Chair Rocks" for a well written and vigorous refutation of arguments against full rights for older people: http://amzn.to/1TuHAjq

What is the protocol @ gmail phone? What sort of external phone (other than a mike in the sound card) can one use with this new sevice?

This last sounds incredibly apocryphal, but was true.