Smart phone for the elderly

[Coolcats]

A third of the price of a Nokia. Longer battery Life. Dual Sim. Better overall coverage than 4G.

lol, a mate was buying these cheap phones and the call quality was appalling he was always chuffed with the price but he would replace one cheap set with another poor quality hand set. If your a child and spend £26 on a phone your parent won’t worry about you loosing the phone but a £75 phone such as the Nokia you get a decent quality call. My mate eventually brought a Nokia and he still has it.

As they say you pay your money and make your choice….cheap is cheap for a reason.

Edited to say I’m surprised your not advocating the old analogue mobile

 

[LostInSpace]

Edited to say: I’m surprised you're not advocating the old analogue mobile

I do have one, but the signal is not good enough.

 

[Brains]

The old landlines are basically being closed down totally. We will all be using VoIP inside of a year or so. Most of us are already.

And I think that does mean that loop disconnect rotary dial phones will no longer work
(without a clever bit of electronics - available from Amazon, etc)

But, then, when did even the elderly last use one?

We use our copper wire landline daily.
Despite living in central London we get one bar of mobile signal at best, and if I move to the back of the house we get cut off.

Ironically we were one of the first roads in the country to get fibre optic cable laid.
(As we have such bad reception, back in 1992 they thought they could sell us the new idea of cable TV, except no one had suitable TV's at the time)
We also still have the working copper network, but I agree sooner of later they will switch it off and I'll have to buy a new phone.

Given the local problems with reception, I wonder if we will be amongst the last roads in the country still running on copper?

 

[Coolcats]

We use our copper wire landline daily.
Despite living in central London we get one bar of mobile signal at best, and if I move to the back of the house we get cut off.

Ironically we were one of the first roads in the country to get fibre optic cable laid.
(As we have such bad reception, back in 1992 they thought they could sell us the new idea of cable TV, except no one had suitable TV's at the time)
We also still have the working copper network, but I agree sooner of later they will switch it off and I'll have to buy a new phone.

Given the local problems with reception, I wonder if we will be amongst the last roads in the country still running on copper?

My Dect phone works on the new digital network just plugged it in to the back of the router, BT also supplied an adapter for the phone which plugs in to the mains if the router is not close enough to the phone. No fibre here just copper. Both my phone and router are plugged in to an APC ups so if we have a power cut the phone and broadband will carry on working. I hear that old style rotary phones do not work in the new system. But why would you want it too anyway? Plus our mobiles all work on wifi calling as well so even though we have a poor mobile signal we have good quality mobile calls.

 

[Widge]

My Dect phone works on the new digital network just plugged it in to the back of the router, BT also supplied an adapter for the phone which plugs in to the mains if the router is not close enough to the phone. No fibre here just copper. Both my phone and router are plugged in to an APC ups so if we have a power cut the phone and broadband will carry on working. I hear that old style rotary phones do not work in the new system. But why would you want it too anyway? Plus our mobiles all work on wifi calling as well so even though we have a poor mobile signal we have good quality mobile calls.

Our phone has been plugged into the back of the router for at least 10 years, we also get free calls to landlines in about 65 countries and unlimited fiber high speed internet for about 35€/month. And we live in a small hamlet 3km from the main road.
Out of interest I just checked the speed, and it is about 120mb/s up and down

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[Coolcats]

We should all be enjoying fibre, unfortunately politics and maggie thatcher stopped it happening.

How Thatcher killed the UK's superfast broadband before it even existed

How old decisions crippled modern UK connections

www.techradar.com

 

[Steve N Tracy]

We got both my mother and mother in law a Panasonic flip phone, open to answer close to finish the conversation, with a large emergency call button on the back and they have a long battery life.

 

[Brains]

Our phone has been plugged into the back of the router for at least 10 years, we also get free calls to landlines in about 65 countries and unlimited fiber high speed internet for about 35€/month. And we live in a small hamlet 3km from the main road.
Out of interest I just checked the speed, and it is about 120mb/s up and down

Central London
Fibre optic cable
49.3mbps UP/6.3 Mbps DOWN