Customer Reviews

Clarity Amplified Photo Phone (P300)

5 star:		(28)
4 star:		(20)
3 star:		(6)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(11)

 

 

Without this phone, my mother, who is 90 and in a nursing home, would not be able to make calls to her family.
My mother suffers partial memory loss and hand tremors, some vision impairment. She is not able to dial regular numbers, but is able to push the one button needed on this phone to make a call. The night light (which comes on when the phone rings) and volume adjustments are all very helpful.

I ordered this for my parents. It looked like the perfect answer for them, big buttons, adjustable volume. I received it and tried it out at my house where it worked perfectly. I preprogrammed the keys, made a fancy photo template and inserted it, then packaged it up and mailed it off to my folks. I had a trip planned to visit them two weeks later, so they left it sitting there waiting for me to arrive and install it. Two weeks later, when I arrived, I hooked it up and it worked for a little while, then it stopped working. I fiddled with the wires and it hissed and crackled, worked a bit, then quit, worked and quit. After some more fiddling I figured out that the switch-hook on the phone was not working correctly. I would lift the handset, then touch the switch-hook and it would stop working, then touch the switch-hook again and it would start working. Something was definitely wrong with the switch-hook inside the phone. I disassembled the unit all the way down to the circuit board. Hey, I'm an engineer, if it needs a little soldering I am up to the job. But I found that the switch-hook component itself was defective. It would sometimes work, but then quit when I barely touched it, or tapped it on the side, then another tap and it would hiss and crackle and sometime start working again.

Overall, this is a disappointing product. At the price it wasn't worth mailing it back home so that I could then prepare the paperwork and re-mail it back for refund. We just threw the thing away and got a big button phone from the local Radio Shack. If it breaks my parents can take it back.

We purchased this phone for my great aunt a year and a half ago. It includes a one-year factory warranty. Unfortunately, now that it is 1.5 years old, it is no longer functional. While I am not impressed with a telephone with such a short lifespan, my great aunt is insistent that we buy her a new one because she dearly loved it. During that year and a half, it worked splendidly for her. She has troubles with her sight and hearing along with motor controls, and the phone aided her in all of those areas. I wish that the product were more durable and long-lasting, but it does do exactly what it asserts to do for the period of time in which it is warranted to do it.

I purchased this as an xmas gift for my grandmother, who has Alzheimers. While the concept is good, the execution is a little off. The phone feels very cheap, and I imagine it won't hold up to too many falls off the nightstand. The worst problem, however, is its lack of battery for memory -- it loses its programming every time it's unplugged!

A smart company would produce a similar product with a higher standard of quality and make out like a bandit.

I purchased this phone for my mother who is 89. It is perfect for her. It has large easy to see and easy to push numbers. The memory auto dial has the option of placing pictures of the person being called beneath the button, so she does not have to read a name or remember which number goes with which person. I have placed my picture and the picture of my two brothers each under a selected button and programed the respective button with the number for that person. Of course there is the autodial button to push for an emergency ~ it is lit at all times with a small red light. For the hard of hearing, there are a varity of settings for the ring volume and the handset volume (ear piece). In addition, when the phone rings a red light across the entire base of the phone flashes, alerting the hard of hearing person that the phone is ringing. The phone is solid,well made, easy to use and has a clear crisp sound for the listener. I would highly recommend this phone for the elderly, sight or hearing impaired, or a mentally/physically handicapped person who finds using a regular phone difficult.

We bought this phone for our 4-year-old daughter, so that, if one of us is home alone with her and becomes incapacitated, she can call the other (or the police, or her grandparents) for help. (She knows numbers and has dialed phone numbers for us before, but, when we did a test run, we realized that it just takes too long for her to find the 10 digits;--and that was without the fear and panic of an actual emergency.)

Anyway, I was a little hesitant when I read the reviews that mentioned how loud the ringer is. When I took the phone out of the box, I was happy to see that I could turn the ringer off. If you or the person for whom you're buying the phone has other phones in the house and doesn't have to rely on this phone's ringer, turning off the ringer may be a good option.

I've only had the phone for a matter of hours, so I can't speak to its longevity or quality. About all that I can say is that it was easy to set up and program. There's a warning label on the receiver about how loud the voices are. I've only tried it with the volume knob slid all the way to the lowest setting, and, at that setting, it's not too loud for the non-hearing impaired.

We are so unhappy with this phone, that we are sending it back and taking a loss. We bought this phone for its amplifier mode for my older Mom who has trouble hearing. However when you pick up the hand piece, each time you have to press the amplifier button to amplify the sound. An older person does not understand to do this. I wish they had verified this in the discription, so I would of purchased a different phone, and I would not be taking a loss right now, due to Amazon.com 30 day return policy. Needless to say, in the future we need better descriptions of the products.

I was a little skeptical about purchasing this product based on other reviews that cited technical snafus, but since my need for big buttons as well as big speed dial buttons outweighed the potential problems, I bought it and it has worked for my mother exactly as described.

This phone has been wonderful. It has enabled my mom, who is in a nursing home and has Alzheimer's, to be able to have a phone and call myself and my brother who lives out of state. She says "they can take anything but don't ever take away my phone". I put pictures in the memory spots so she doesn't have to think about anything, all she has to do is press our pictures. I'm so happy that I found this, It's truly been life changing for my Mom!

This telephone has really helped my elderly father. He especially likes the 'light up' feature when the phone rings. Also, he can increase the volume to where he can hear it. After pricing other similar phones, I was leary because of the relative inexpensive price; I think it is quality equipment.