JUST5 J509 Easy to Use Unlocked Cell Phone with Big Buttons, Amplified Sound, Personal Emergency Response System (Orange) Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought this for my sister who has MS & whose fingers don't work very well with the tiny buttons on most cell phones. The buttons are huge, so it gets a gold star for button size. The display isn't big, but everything displayed in it takes the whole display up, so it works for those who need cheaters & large print books.
It didn't transfer contacts from sis's T-Mobile sim card, a demerit. I got to enter 87 contacts & it got old fast. It has several modes, Aabc, abc, ABC, 123, & one I couldn't figure out. It starts in Aabc but if your contact has two words in it, say John Smith, it goes into the abc mode after the J in John, so one has to cycle modes to get the S in Smith capitalized. Not a big deal for one entry but if one is doing 87, it gets old. No special symbols, just letters & numbers. See's candy dosen't get a ' and John & Mary Smith don't get a & One can't edit contacts; all one can do is delete & re-enter them. A pain.
When the spec's said it had an alarm, I presumed it was a multiple time alarm like all the other cell phones in our house. It only has one alarm time & it happens every day, so for those who take pills at 6am, noon, 2pm, 6pm, 10pm, & midnight, it isn't going to remind them to take their pills. & if you only want the alarm M-F, but not S-S, it dosen't do that either. A real simple alarm.
The emergency alarm button has to be held down for a few seconds before it activates. And activate it does with a painfuly loud siren that continues untill someone answers one of the 5 emergency numbers.
There was no manual in the box, but I found one on the internet. It cries out for a good tech writer to re-do it.
Not waterproof, a shortcomming considering how messy old dudes can be.
Good signal & good voice quality; one more bar than the other cell phones in the house! This phone is a little rough arround the edges, but if one is willing to accept that, it is useable for those whose fingers & eyes don't work real good.


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