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Originally Posted by sherri  LOL! This phone is too advanced for my younger sister (although she is a brilliant lawyer and USED TO BE more tecnologically advanced than me). Besides the fact that I don't speak to my mother (she is only 65) I couldn't see her w/ the Q. I had to program all her other "dumb" phones... |
Whatever they wind up with I'll have to set up for them - so I don't mind the setup time. At least with the full keyboard they would have a *chance* at being able to add a contact.
What gets me is that with a lot of the basic phones, the screen is relatively small, so the function of the phone's buttons will change based on the context (on *this* screen the right convenience button now will EXIT or the left button will bring up the CONTACTS list, etc.). But this simple screen idiom is lost on my parents.
They could follow directions. If I tell them "in order to place a call, do steps 1., 2., 3" or "in order to turn down the ringer so that you don't embarrass yourself mid church service do 1., 2.", they're reasonably ok with that.
They have a computer at home, but I often have to remote desktop in to help them get past very simple issues.