This seems targeted towards elderly people and while the implementation isn’t ideal the concept itself isn’t too bad.
Anyone have one of these?
Submitted 2 days ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Broadfern@lemmy.world 2 days ago
schnokobaer@feddit.org 2 days ago
Can you explain how this would suit the elderly? I must be missing something because it appears that thing is either a very complicated landline phone or a very cumbersome tablet that you can’t pick up and carry around. Imagine typing a WhatsApp message to your granddaughter on that.
Broadfern@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If it connects the way I think it does, it would allow for the user to hold the “phone” part to their ear and dial on the touchpad like a traditional landline phone while being able to use wireless technology.
The rest of the tablet apps are what make it not ideal, since its main use case seems to be the phone itself.
TL;DR: use like regular phone, other apps useless.
glitch1985@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Why is the battery not fully charged?
serenissi@lemmy.world 2 days ago
the biggest advantage of this is that I can answer the call with wet/thick gloved hands. modern phones should have a dedicated answer key.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s what your nose is for 🙃
ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
That’s how I made collect calls back in the 90s: I was also a parrot, back then. Your experience may have differed.
serenissi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
yes. I text that way too in such situations.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
No thanks. I might accidentally slip onto that button and accept a call. And I never accept calls 😁
serenissi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
most of the time I accept call when a friend is in some distress. or when one of the parties is in a position where texting isn’t viable and it’s something urgent.
and yes I like random misdialed calls or scam calls (I think my numbers are in scammers’ blocklists lol). I always pick them :).
barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I would love for this to be a dock for my phone and my desk.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’d be nice to set your mobile in one and have it connect to other units in a house to mimic landlines.
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I can hear the questions from grandma asking how to find the dial pad after she accidentally deletes it from the homescreen.
Other then that this reminds me of TV shows or moves that had video telephones in homes mounted on walls similar to this. You would make a call and their face would appear on the screen, you could even broadcast to each screen in the house.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
god i want scifi with this vibe, like how retro scifi is always just the cool future tech glued together with the things that were normal back then
grue@lemmy.world 2 days ago
ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Look out! It’s going to fire it’s laser!
:A bunch of feral cats materialize and chase a red dot around your chest:
HowAbt2day@futurology.today 2 days ago
Looks likes the telecom equivalent of when the flintstones met the jetsons.
Etterra@discuss.online 1 day ago
I’d this a real thing? I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, but I am.
toofpic@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Just your usual android phone
ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
There was this dumb ‘headset’ that retro enthusiasts loved that was just a big old Mah Bell phone receiver that plugged into your '00s era dumb phone.
Combine that with a High Quality landline phone ringtone and you’d be the coolest dork at the nerd party for approximately 5 minutes.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Would be ideal for my workplace. After we got a replacement for our malfunctioning Panasonic intercom system, it was a major stepdown, with little to no features, and some badly working ones (redial of external numbers don’t work because it would need to press
9for an external line, etc).mystik@lemmy.world 2 days ago
www.grandstream.com/products/…/gxv3470 <-- that’s something like this, if not the same? These are useful for those call centers where they can put the app that has all the forms + scripts the person on the phone are following, and they would not need any other technology at their desks.
WereCat@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Nah, I’m still using this smartphone
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh man, you managed to actually get one? I’ve been waiting like 3 years now, at least. Same color I want too.
WereCat@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Better. I’ve actually managed to get a screenshot of one!
gndagreborn@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Honestly love the vibe. Catch me on that rotary.
dickalan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
These are for sale this isn’t some AI mock up