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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 13:57:54 CST
- From: Will Martin <wmartin@STL-06SIMA.ARMY.MIL>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Looking For Small-Handset Cordless Phone
- Message-ID: <telecom12.916.6@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 916, Message 6 of 11
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- I was speaking with my elderly aunt and uncle the other day, and they
- mentioned how they had difficulty getting to the phone before it
- stopped ringing. Of course, the usual answer to that these days is to
- have a cordless phone you keep near you, perhaps clipped to a walker
- or in a basket hung from it. When I mentioned that, my aunt said that
- the problem she had with any cordless phone she's tried is that the
- handset is too bulky for her arthritic hands -- she cannot grasp it.
- She can hold a regular-telephone handset with the thinner mid-portion.
-
- So I told her I'd see what I could find in the way of a cordless phone
- in which the handset is made more like a regular phone, with a thinner
- mid-section between mouthpiece and ear-portion. (I would suppose the
- dialling buttons would have to be at one end, maybe around the
- periphery of the microphone or on a flip-out panel of some kind.)
- Nothing like this appears in Hello Direct or any other catalog I have
- checked. Does anyone on the list know if such a device exists?
-
- If it doesn't, here's a marketing opportunity for the entrepeneurs on
- the list -- a product for which there is demand but no supply ...
-
- If there are such devices and I get e-mail about them that doesn't
- also appear on Telecom, I'll post a summary. (I'll be away until New
- Years -- Happy Holidays to the group and the Esteemed Moderator!)
-
-
- Regards, Will
-
- wmartin@st-louis-emh2.army.mil OR wmartin@stl-06sima.army.mil
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: And happy holidays to you too, Will, and the rest
- of our readers. PAT]
-
-