CPR Call Blocker Big Button Sim Free Mobile Phone
- Big Button Call Blocker Mobile Phone
- SOS emergency button
- Photo Contacts
- Bluetooth/FM radio/Torch/Magnifier/Quadband
- Large 2.2 colour display screen
World's 1st Big Button mobile with CPR Call Blocking Technology. CPR call blocker Mobile has built in Black & White list function. Black List allows user to block callers at a touch of a button. White List can be programmed to block out all call except those listed. Other features include a large 2.2 colour screen, SOS emergency button, Camera, Torch, FM radio, Bluetooth, Quadband and comes with cradle!
List Price: £79.99
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Good Phone For The Target Audience But Ridiculously Small instructions,
The CPR call blocker does not look like a disability aid, although it does look like a phone for an older person – it certainly isn’t up there with the latest technological gadgets! This isn’t necessarily a bad thing though. If the phone is slightly less flashy, it is less likely to attract unwanted attention, which is always a bonus. This is particularly true for people who have disabilities, or are elderly, and who wouldn’t want any extra reason to feel vulnerable.
Setting up the phone is easy, although the instructions are printed ridiculously small when you consider the market audience of this product. You could use the nifty magnifying feature, but you would have to know how to use this…which might be found if you had read the instructions…which is difficult if you cannot read them.
The screen size is decent and, when combined with the photo contacts, is useful as an extra aide for any visually impaired individual.
One of the most reassuring features is the SOS programmable button. It means that in an emergency the user can press the SOS button and the phone will automatically start to phone and text the first of five pre-set numbers. If no answer is gained, or only voicemail, it moves on to the next pre-set number. This feature is such a great idea, and can give piece of mind to both the phone user, and family or friends who may worry over them.
The CPR Call Blocker also, as the name suggests, allows the user to block out all calls aside from those that have been entered into the phone book. The other option is to block all nuisance calls at the mere touch of a button.
Overall, I think that the phone is an absolute godsend for elderly or visually impaired individuals. The call blocker functions, and the SOS feature, really set this phone apart from many standard issue handsets. The only criticism I have is the the instructions are seriously small when you consider the target audience for this type of model. I do, however, hope that the people who will use these types of phone will have someone they can trust to set it up.
Highly recommended.
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|Quite a basic mobile phone, but with some good functions for the elderly / vulnerable…,
Customer Video Review Length:: 2:53 Mins
The CPR Call Blocker ‘Big Button’ Mobile Phone is a mobile phone that’s especially designed for older and the more vulnerable people.
The mobile phone is a Sim Free model, meaning you can simply insert a pay-as-you-go Sim Card (i.e. one from your previous phone) and you’re good to go.
The functionality on the phone is incredibly simple to use (as it should be). The main screen shows the time, the day and the date, how much power is remaining on the phone, and if you have an unread text / missed call.
Unlocking the phone is the usual ‘press 1 and then the * button in reasonably quick succession’. The text across all of the menus and options is very large and well-illuminated.
Undoubtedly, the main feature, the phones USP if you like, is with the black listing function. Quickly black listing calls is incredibly simple. Once the phone has been called by a number that you want blacklisted, it’s just a case of choosing the ‘Black List’ function and then selecting the appropriate number from your recent calls list. Simple as that. There’s also a reverse of this, which is via enabling your ‘White List’ which will block all calls apart from those that you’ve put on your white list.
Other than this the phone offers a handy but quite blurry magnifier (digitally magnifies small text etc). However, you have to have a steady hand to use this otherwise you’ll find it just too blurry to use.
The camera function is also a little on the ropey side, with the picture quality decidedly grainy, especially if taken indoors. Certainly not great compared to the quality that we’re used to on most other modern mobile phones.
Other functions of note would be the ability to choose the person to call from your phonebook via a picture (a choice of four come up for the user to select from). There’s also a handy little torch that you can turn on from the side of your phone. Finally, you can select to have the buttons you’ve pressed spoken out to you in a human voice (see accompanying video), which is great for the visually impaired.
Other than that what you’ve got with the CPR Call Blocker Mobile Phone is a pretty standard no-frills mobile with big buttons and very easy to read displays. Good for what it’s for, but doesn’t offer anything of much note other than these handful of specifics and then the absolute basics.
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|Nice to know who is on the line,
At first glance, this small black phone does not shout `aid for those more vulnerable people’ who need a piece of easy to use mobile phone equipment, protection from unwanted callers or anything extraordinarily outsized for poor eyesight.
Indeed the tiny print in the instruction book is suitable only for a mouse to read. Bad start. Lack of joined up thinking. Or maybe you can use the magnifier – oh but you have read the instructions first…
Open up the back to insert a sim card, not provided, so needs to be bought, and a battery that is. You might need a micro s d card if you are going use much storage.
This is charged in its own tidy dock with a cable supplied that will also work in a car with a USB port. When charging, a green light shows in the 3 pin plug and the display tells you when the phone charge is complete.
I was particularly interested in this for our 94 year old mother. Of course someone with younger eyes and a knowledge of how to set it all up will certainly be required. However when sorted and inserted, the photo contacts will be easy to recognise, the SOS button that contacts pre set phone numbers in rotation, could be a real boon, the blocker which filters out all but those you want to be able to ring you is a great idea. Older people get very fussed by cold callers who seem official. Also it is a bore to be disturbed by unnecessary calls to answer. Seeing a photo of the caller ringing will be reassuring.
The camera has hardly any pixels so will be a rather blurry image. The FM radio is a nice extra as long as it is possible to access, as so with the other extras such as the calculator and the file manager, audio player, magnifier, organiser etc. It does have most of the bells and whistles a non smart phone should offer. The logo ‘CPR’ is a little unsettling though!
I think this is a niche product that will be of interest to those looking after people with special needs or those who like life to be simple.
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