[Electronics-Talk] Accessible Phones?

[Gerald Levy]

Are you talking about land line phones or cell phones?  If you are 
talking about cell phones, Lively Mobile, formerly Great Call,  offers 
the Lively Flip phone for $99 that has large, tactile buttons and is 
designed to be senior friendly.  It also has built-in Alexa, but it is 
not clear whether it also has speech for the menu options.  The owners 
guide claims that it can "read out loud what is on the screen", but when 
I I inquired about this on the Best Buy web site, a company rep claimed 
that it does not have speech output to read the menus, so I don't know 
what to believe.  The Lively Flip can be purchased at Best Buy stores, 
and they will activate it and set it up for you.  Another flip phone 
option is the Link 2, which is made for Consumer Cellular and is 
available at Target stores for $35, but does not have any built-in 
speech capability.  But it also has large, tactile buttons and like the 
Lively Flip, is designed to be "senior friendly", and would be a good 
option if all you want to do is make and receive phone calls. Like Best 
Buy, Target will activate and set up the Link 2 for you.


Gerald



On 9/9/2021 7:55 AM, Donald Moore via Electronics-Talk wrote:
> I know this topic has come up here before, but a friend of mine has an old
> push button phone that their carrier won't support any more.  What is the
> newest one of these phones, and who sells it?
>
> Thanks in advance.  I know this topic was a long thread on the list, so if
> you want to write privately, my email is:
>
> don.moore48 at reagan.com
>
> Thanks so much!
>
>
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