Mobile phone with Bluetooth headset

Mobile phone with big buttons and bluetooth headset make operation easier for persons with impaired hand function

Description
The user has an older mobile phone. The telephone folds up to turn it on or off. It has large buttons. The telephone uses a bluetooth headset with a large on/off button.

Model phone: Sony Eriksson 700 I

Model: Bluetooth: Cardo Scala 500

Authors comments
Phone:
The user is extremely satisfied with the telephone. Since he has problems with small buttons he likes being able to unfold the telephone in order to answer. The telephone keypad for dialing a number also fits well. The buttons are large enough for him. This telephone is no longer made and the problem with new phones is that they are small and have small buttons. He would drop a phone that is too small.

When he was newly injured he taped a self-adhesive insulation strip around the telephone to make it easier for him to hold it.

Bluetooth headset:
Bluetooth headsets are available in different models. The user chose one with large buttons. It works well. When he is out and has his gloves on he does not have to search with his hands, he just presses it.

The phone could also be programmed to answer automatically after a certain number of rings.

Paid for by
The user

Tip is dated from 2008

Categories for this tip
communication » use of phone, Tips and tricks from people with Tetraplegia with motor function allowing ambulation (C2-Th1, ASIA D, E).