Doro 8100 4G Unlocked Smartphone for Seniors - Easy Mobile Phone - 13MP Triple Camera - Water-resistant Android Phone - 6.1" HD Display - Assistance Button with GPS [UK and Irish Version] (Black)

after making a mistake of buying a smart phone that was beyond me as a oap with health problems and not tec minded my Son suggested the Doro, their is not so much choice with the smart phones but they are aimed at Seniors, i bought the Doro 8100 and am thrilled with it straight away i was comfortable with it , it has a section of tuition for the phone in writing and very helpful video and my Son was surprised with me using it a lot and finding out things for myself. It also has a great feature where a relative or friend can work your phone from theirs with i think an app even though they are not with you. It is a easy phone to handle and not heavy plus takes good photo's and videos. I would highly recommend especially if you are not tec minded like me.

Phone worked well and easy to use. Battery did not last two years so Doro replaced free of charge under warranty.

Seemed fine. Acquired for a friend and she’s still using it with no issues, Good sound,( useful with elderly ears!), and ability to increase type size is also a bonus.

Easy for me to get used to being apensioner

I bought this phone for my husband who suffers from, among other things, peripheral neuropathy which affects his hands. It has, with some help from me, been very useful and the large icons most helpful for him to be able to use the phone functions. However, the most annoying thing about the phone is the difficulty to charge it!!! You put it to charge at, say 45% and when you go back several hours later it has LOST charge and is only 33%. This is so maddening. I can sometimes get it to charge by keep moving the phone to other chargers, but surely this shouldn't happen!!

DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE - PARTICULARLY FOR ELDERLY OR VULNERABLE PERSONS. Bought this for an elderly relative particularly because it has the 'alert' function, so if the owner has a fall or gets lost, they can press a button and be directed through to their pre-arranged contact. However, the button (which needs to be pressed three times in a succession) is too sensitive and has gone off several times by accident causing a blaring loud alarm at both the owner end and on the phone of the agreed contact. It has gone off when just being picked up for use and also when being carried in a case. Relative got so upset by setting alarm off accidentally so many times that we have had to disable the function - negating the point of getting the phone in the first place. As a couple of other reviews have stated, the connection on the SIM card and SD card is terrible. I've bought three different SD cards for the phone now and none of them are 'recognised'. The SIM card itself slips frequently and loses signal leaving my relative unable to make or receive phone calls or texts... until I travel back there (40 miles) and reinsert the MICRO SIM into the TINY, FLIMSY tray with no idea how long it will stay connected. The battery drains in less than a day and charging is slow. The phone and charger also get VERY hot when charging so be careful. Audio notifications on various apps and messages are erratic. Basically, the whole reason I bought this phone was because it was recommended for elderly people / people with arthritic hands,and it had the safety alert. The phone has actually proven to be more dangerous than a dirt-cheap phone because my relative has been left so many times with no signal and been unable to contact anyone, has no working SIM card, and gets scared half to death whenever the blaring safety alert goes off randomly. Really annoyed because having forked out £200+ for the phone, SIM cards and case, DORO wouldn't deal with me and fobbed me off back to Amazon...and Amazon wouldn't refund until they had received the returned phone. I explained that unless they would refund me so I could BUY A NEW PHONE I'd have to take the phone from my relative, wipe the data, send it back and this would leave my elderly and vulnerable relative without any lifeline at all for the duration of the entire return and reorder period. However, they didn't care and said I had to return it and then buy a new one when they approved the return. They obviously assume I just have another few hundred quid ready and waiting to buy someone a new phone. Thanks, Amazon - I mean you're only the richest company in the world.

Use the tutorial it leads younvery clearly by the hand. The reponse set is a little more complicated insofar as your responders have to first install from Apple or Ggogle an App which is free called Doro reponse onto their own Android or iPhone. BA good phone particularly for the elderly living alone who like me at 94 are liable to fall

Purchased for elderly parent, who’d been using a very basic Nokia for years, but the 3G signal is soon to be cut off. Quite a palaver to set up, he definitely would not have managed it himself! It seems disappointingly slow, even when connected to WiFi. I think he will take to it easily, now that it’s ready to use. He will enjoy the ease of checking his emails without firing up the PC, and it will give us some peace of mind to know that he has the emergency button and GPS.

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