Show HN: BestChoice – Phone-chooser that even your grandma can use

Re:Show HN: BestChoice – Phone-chooser that even your grandm... by gvb on Saturday March 24, 2018 @09:46AM (#16666554)

My grandma (age 80++) wants:

* A flip phone:

- People that are no longer very dexterous have a hard time with touch screen phones

- It's a phone - she will only be using it as a phone; all the touch screen features are just confusing

* An "SOS" button that texts / dials a list of family numbers for help if she has an emergency that doesn't warrant calling 911. Having dedicated memory dial keys is a passable compromise.

I ended up buying a Voca V530. I bought it just last week, so it is too soon to call it an unqualified success, but it looks like it will do the job we want it to do.

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Re:Show HN: BestChoice – Phone-chooser that even your grandm... by arnaudsm on Saturday March 24, 2018 @09:51AM (#16666580)

You're right ! I didn't include Flip Phones because they lack diversity and are pretty inexpensive. And people that buy flip phones usually don't search on the Internet websites like mine.

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Re:Show HN: BestChoice – Phone-chooser that even your grandm... by bradknowles on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @11:17PM (#16694962)

No, but people like that frequently depend on people like us who might visit such a site, and so therefore there is a big "friends and family" potential market that you are missing.

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