I have been looking for something like this for the past year or so for my elderly mother. Instead (and for the more or less same reasons given in the article) I am going to try to custom role a handset for a smart phone that is:
- connects to a smartphone so all the phones features are available.
- an lcd text display
- two buttons to scroll threw a contact list
- a button to call/hang up
- maybe in the future a button or two to read text.
The physical buttons are important to me (her) so she can easily make calls to the people she talks to. If anyone wants to steal the idea, please do. I might buy one.
Adding: Just some sort of DIY/Maker tool chain, for a bluetooh handset, would be useful.
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I have been looking for something like this for the past year or so for my elderly mother. Instead (and for the more or less same reasons given in the article) I am going to try to custom role a handset for a smart phone that is:
- connects to a smartphone so all the phones features are available.
- an lcd text display
- two buttons to scroll threw a contact list
- a button to call/hang up
- maybe in the future a button or two to read text.
The physical buttons are important to me (her) so she can easily make calls to the people she talks to. If anyone wants to steal the idea, please do. I might buy one.
Adding: Just some sort of DIY/Maker tool chain, for a bluetooh handset, would be useful.