09-09-2019, 05:53 PM
mrbigstuff wrote:
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[quote=mrbigstuff]
I have those. They're called flip phones.
no it isn't - I'm going nuts trying to find a phone that my mom can operate. Any flip phone is confusing in their own ways to mom.
I seriously might get her an old rotary phone - she knows how to operate THAT.
You mean to say that she can't flip it open and dial a number? Because it really is as easy as that.
In fact, you can program those phones for her so that long-pressing a particular button will dial a programmed number, something that I miss tremendously on a "smartphone."
sometimes she can - sometimes she forgets which button to push to 'send' the call. Sometimes she stares at an array of buttons and just gives up. With an old rotary phone, you pick it up, listen for a dial tone, if you heard one, you start dialing. This is still the 'easiest' phone to operate.
'long pressing' a number might work if you remember that long pressing does something that short pressing doesn't AND you remember the what the button was programmed to do. We do things like this and write up VERY specific instructions - she losses them.
I'm seeing challenges that I never though could happen.