Future Call FC-8888 Big Button Phone for Seniors | Large Button Phones for Seniors | Phone for Visually Impaired and Telephones for Hearing Impaired | 40db Handset | Best Landline Phones for Seniors

This is a great phone for our mom. The cell phone she had been using, even though it was simplified for seniors, just got to be too complicated. She would accidentally turn it off and think it was broken. She wouldn't remember how to select a name from the phone book directory. She wouldn't remember how to charge it, etc. When in quarantine at her semi-independent living facility, we couldn't run over and help her with it. With this Future Call phone, however, all she has to do is pick up the receiver and talk. To make a call, all she has to do is "poke us in the face" (=push the button that has our picture on it). True, now she actually has to walk to the phone, and that can take a while (even in her tiny apartment), but the phone rings many times before it would cut off, giving her lots of time to get to it. The phone was easy enough to set up that a "non-techy" staff member at her living facility could handle all the programming and setup (although I re-wrote the instructions for her along with the phone numbers to program, since the ones included with the phone, although simple, were obviously written by a non-native speaker of English. Also, we had the phone sent to our house so that I could print out our pictures and insert them under the plastic for each button, first. They go in easily if you are patient. Use a paring knife to pop off the plastic from each button).

Second Review: Just found out these things are DANGEROUS! I was wondering why my dad wasn't calling me anymore. When I got around to asking him (hisemory is pretty bad, so I didn't want to embarrass him) he told me he tried buty.line was always busy. I dialed his phone from my cel (in the same room as this phone) and the phone DID ring. HOWEVER, when I tried to call MY phone from this phone, I kept getting a busy signal. I called every phone number we set up for him and it still rang busy...EVERY PHONE! What if my dad needed to talk to me urgently? This phone is dangerous! I want my money back, but threw the box away already. I was too confident this Phone would work. I'm pretty disappointed with this purchase. I bought this for my dad, who suffers from dementia, to use so we could all stay in touch and he could call us whenever he wanted to. Well, my brother got it all set up then informed me that my dad needed to REMEMBER to press the "memory" button BEFORE he presses the picture of the person he wants to talk to. HELLO? I was trying to explain this to my dad and he just could not "get it". I lost him at remember. Really? For folks with memory issues having to remember to push a button beforehand is NOT feasible. If I would have known this I DEFINITELY would not have bought this. They need to make this phone so it can be used without having to remember a thing...just pick up the receiver and push ONE button. That's why we bought this phone to replace his old complicated one. Sound quality was fine. Ease of use was a one star...and because that is WHY I bought this and it was NOT easy for my dad to use, it was NOT a good value.

My mom recently moved to a retirement apartment and was having difficulty dialing numbers on her cordless phone - failing cognitive abilities, shaky hands, unfamiliar with extra "dial out" number - and it had become isolating and disappointing. The most upsetting for her was that she was unable to call her sister in the UK. Dialing 16 numbers, which includes the "dial-out" number, was hard on her cordless phone. Hard even for me! The one-button solution with this phone was like a miracle. I was worried that it wouldn't support international calls (too many numbers) but it works like a charm. It was easy to program the numbers and it holds enough for her to call her friends and family. The sound quality is excellent (they must have improved it since the many prior reviews that were posted that were unhappy with the sound quality). I didn't use pictures - I just wrote the names on the little squares. The ringer takes some getting used to (kind of a different ring) but she is so happy and so is our family. Worth every penny. If it breaks, I'd actually order another one.

I bought for my elderly mother. I like the buttons and the idea of one touch dialing by picture. I programmed it and she used it for for about 7 months. However it recently began to malfunction and made mom very confused. I thought it was her memory at first. It will no longer store numbers in some locations. Others still work. It was always difficult to get numbers entered in time allotted. For good or bad it Cannot be used as a regular phone and memory phone without flipping small hidden switches.

As advertised

Fácil de usar: ayudan sus botones grandes

The storing of a number doesn't work. i bought 2 and they are both faulty. can you please refund?

Resolvió totalmente la dificultad de mi padre para comunicarse y usar el teléfono, ¡¡es una maravilla!! Mi padre, adulto mayor e invidente, no podía usar celulares, lo intentamos de muchas formas y este teléfono le devolvió la confianza de la autonomía, la memoria y el tamaño de sus teclas fue lo que necesitábamos. Llegó muy rápido y fue fácil de programar. Lo recomiendo en su totalidad. Gracias, gracias.

Bought this phone not even a year ago, was finicky to set up and then it worked just fine. Now not even a year into it, it doesn't work as intended, we aren't able to switch the programming on the phone at all. I messaged the seller to see about a resolution and they're non existent and amazon is no help at all. Wouldn't waste your money with this seller or this phone.