By Ariel Schwartz

We take for granted that our friends and family have easy access to cell phones, but what if handsets were too expensive for many of us to afford? And what if cell phone networks were our only means of easy communication? That's the case for many rural communities in developing countries, where the cell phone infrastructure is set up but few people actually own a handset. Enter Movirtu, a startup that hopes to provide easy and safe ways for residents of Sub-Sahara Africa and South Asia to share cell phones. We recently spoke to Frog Design about their work in helping Movirtu create a user interface for shared handsets.