Simple mobile phones with big buttons

redux

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Road_Hog

rosbif wrote:

My mother in law needs a PAYG phone to replace the contract phone
Any ideas? Nokia 1100 looks good? Or even 3220?

Get the 3220, great phone, big buttons, but is colour and has camera as well.

£50 from The Link, but that includes £30 Easymobile airtime voucher.

http://www.thelink.com/martprd/product/NOKIA/3220/906873

Plus get £2.50 back if you go thru Quidco.

bunnyears

My mother is going slowly blind and would like a new payg mobile with easy to read keys. It needs to be very easy to use as she is 83 and in her words "stupid with anything technical". Any ideas anybody.

flagpole

There aren't many phones that have big keys today. V3 is possibly the biggest.

the rnib have a couple of factsheets about this. http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/idcplg?IdcService=GET_DOC_PAGE&Action=GetTemplatePage&Page=RNIBSearchPage&ResultTemplate=RNIBSearchPage&QueryText=&KeywordWeighting=UseKeywords&pageType=homepage&searchType=Generic&FullText=mobile+phone
they even have some software that runs on symbian phones to increase the writing size i believe.

but my advice would really be to get her a basic phone, nokia 1100 or something, the buttons are big and not fiddly, even if the writing isn't so big.

then just set up some speed dials for her. don't know if you know, but all phones can be set up so that holding just one key dials a specific number, speed dialing.

like all phones the 5 key has bumps on it. she should be able to manage that. you can set the phone to 'any key answer' then you just need to show her how to hang up.

she can play snakeII if she wishes also. I presuming that shedoesn't txt???

bookshifter

£45 and seemingly exactly what you want - the Vodafone Simply

http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/Pay-As-You-Talk-Sagem-VS1%20(Simply)-PTSA20-308.htm

There may be other places where you can get this cheaper, I am not sure if you can get this phone on other networks.

The RNIB also have a phone here
http://onlineshop.rnib.org.uk/display_item.asp?n=11&c=59&sc=195&id=2767&it=1&l=2&d=0

It is v.pricey £350+ and I guess is a last resort as it is v.specialist

Good luck in your phone choice

crispeater

hi,
does anyone have any suggestions for a mobile phone which has quite big buttons. she currently has a flip front (cant remember the make) and i noticed she's struggling with the numbers. i keep telling her to memorise where the numbers are but she doesnt like to admit defeat!

any suggestions greatfully received

knuckledragger

crispeater,

A great phone which might suit would be the Nokia 3510i. Big rubberised keys with a large display. There are plenty available on ebay.

crispeater

very much appreciated i shall have a gander

drahcir_2

not seen one for sale but these may be useful
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3226314.stm

crispeater

i did a google on phones for partially sighted and i saw this through the RNIB it was the price that put me off lol the link you have given is about 100pounds cheaper though but to be honest i didnt really want to spend either amount for a xmas present

the nokia mentioned does appear to have quite big buttons where as the flipfront one she has now is quite small and narrow. i noticed it also have voice calling too which would be handy for her.

thanks for looking