The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #173430   Message #4206678
Posted By: leeneia
08-Aug-24 - 12:09 AM
Thread Name: BS: mobile phones for the elderly, disabled
Subject: RE: BS: mobile phones for the elderly, disabled
I'm sending the J'bug4 back after fussing with it for an hour. It isn't true that the buttons are big, and the side buttons cannot be de-activated as the sales rep claimed.

Let me vent. I am a small woman, and my hands are even smaller than usual for a small woman. The QWERTY keys are so small on this phone that I have to use the tip of my little finger to type. The keys are about 1/4-inch square, and they pick up tremors I can't even detect. Meanwhile, there's empty white space on the screen that they could have used to display bigger keys.

We are probably all familiar with the frustrations of a badly-programmed product. I signed on the household WIFI, and it said my attempt didn't work. I went back one screen to try again, but it said I was connected. Fine, but there was nowhere to go from there. No Next, no Back, no Close, no X. Trapped!

It would have my poor brother throwing things.