Is this phonecall easy to answer? My father us in his 80's and has trouble answering his cellphone. He needs a cell that is easy to answer &amp; can text
1542101
Yes; the keypad is very generic and simple to use. My nine year old was able to navigate easily. I turned off the "extras," such as web browsing and data usage apps. The pull-out keyboard offers a full QWERTY keypad that is useful for texting.
920681
I bought this phone for my father. He is in his 60's. In addition to bring easy to use, the phone's ringer volume is loud enough for my dad to hear.
974583
I have a new B250 XT and I can't answer calls once I'm on the phone with another call. I'm sending it back to get another B250 XT + because it does everything. But last barely over a year with me.
1312565
My parents are in their 80's and they hear quite well on the phones, but they do not have severe hearing loss. I bought the pair of phones so when I make my weekly call I can talk to Mom on the sofa and Dad in the big chair and hear them clearly myself. When they use them, I can hear them quite well, but they keep reverting to the old speaker phone on the other side of the room they are hard to hear.
1063711
They can use this as a speaker phone but there is a big button phone out there that is better if your parent are vision impaired and hearing impaired look for that one. And change the cord to a longer one as well so that they don't pull it to the floor or short change themselves when answering. This one is good but for their purposes that one will be better.
643235
I don't think so. My mom found it difficult to do anything but make and receive calls. If I had it to do over I would buy a different phone for her
1988889
My husband used this phone for a while. He never had the issue of people not being able to hear him but he did have the issue of not being able to hear the phone. After a while the speakers started to not work too well so you could barely hear it when he got a call or text.
1797534
Ours has 6 rings. I timed that and it is 22.5 seconds from the first ring till the answering machine picks up. Maybe you can time your Mom. I know it takes longer just to acknowledge the phone is ringing as you age. Good luck.
298963
Has answering component...I believe only 1 time to enter numbers...the best I can recall...not near phone today
512986
I think so. I am 66 and kinda tech savvy but not really. I used it and liked it for phone, text and voice mail. It is inexpensive and mine was very reliable. I had different models for about 6 years.
1965470
Dear Steven, Thank you so much for answering my question. I was getting a phone for my aunt in Kansas, her speaker messed up in her old one. Once again thank you so very much.
207138
My Mother actually had me send the phone back. The British accent took some time to get used to.I believe I had to hit memory then a number to get to a specific person. A person with low visionwill need some assisntance setting up the people/numbers they want.
1065994
A couple of reviews commented about the texting functionality not meeting their expectation - too slow or one even said he effectively could not use it to send texts (no detail provided). Given that there is also a great many comments about Peek continually improving the service, has the texting functionality improved? Thinking about getting my 13 yo his first cell phone, but this might be a more functional (QWERTY keyboard) and less expensive solution especially given how text-heavy teens are.
2172741
Okay, I have a question is the ringer very loud and also is the voice volume loud because I am getting this phone for my father that has to have hearing aids and even with them has a little hard time hearing still.. I need a phone for him because of health reasons. this sounds like a great phone. but still wondering about the volumes of the ringer and also the voice volume when you are talking.. thanks
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Best to go to the Jitterbug/GreatCall website for details, but I bought this phone for my 97-year-old aunt to use. I had the phone delivered to me and put in MY NAME (so there wouldn't be any problems cancelling the service when she passes!). The setup was clear and easy and quick! I programmed some common numbers she'd be calling into the phone. I also did NOT opt for the voicemail feature *(which I am sooooooo glad is not automatically included in the service!!) as I knew this would be too difficult for her to deal with, and we gave her cell phone number to no one so she didn't have to worry about answering incoming calls. This was an adjunct to her landline phone and the answering machine she's used for 10+ years and knows how to use by heart. This was really all about her being able to make spur-of-the-moment calls to friends and family while away from her apt. at the senior home in which she lives. Because of the way I set things up, I haven't had one "tech" call from her in six months! It's a great, easy-to-use SIMPLE cell phone!
1510777
If you are his caregiver you would need to turn headset on for him and place in his ear, it then connects to his paired phone. Then when call comes in he will hear who is calling and if he wants to talk to then all he needs to do is, after the prompt, is say "answer". Any other functions might be accomplished by downloading an app called 'Vlingo' which is voice activated and can access texting and read incoming texts. Hopefully this might help.
2055984
No voice command dialing but has 3 easy buttons that program for 1 touch dialing. My father was 87 and it worked well for him.