Easy to use phones

There are a number of ‘easy to use’ mobile phones, but as specialist equipment these tend to be more expensive. They tend to have larger buttons that are easy to distinguish. The ‘Easy 5’ available from the RNIB has 5 numbers programmed in. This allows you to easily call these five numbers by holding down the appropriate key. Unfortunately, it also makes it easy to accidentally make phone calls; a particular problem as 999 is automatically dialled if the large ‘call’ button is pressed for more than 4 seconds. This model, as with all the phones mentioned here will accept incoming calls.
There are also two other easy to use mobile phones from the RNIB, Both of which have large buttons but unfortunately no speed dialling facility. The soon to be released ‘Easy use mobile’ does however have four quick dial buttons which can be assigned to important numbers for instant dialling. They both have the ability to store contact information but this can only be accessed visually. The ‘Emporia’ has a well contrasted screen and can support the use of text messaging. Both these phones rely on some degree of sight to access options and input contact information, although the font size is larger than usual.