Panasonic KX-TU550EXR Basic Mobile Phone for Kids and Elderly – 4G, Sim-free & Unlocked, Easy Buttons, SOS Emergency, Durable Flip Phone, Compact & Long Life Battery, Dumb Phone, Brick Phone, Red

Nice flip phone I keep as a backup to my main iPhone. Good clear sound and display. I have a couple of other feature phones and find this one easier to use in navigating the menus - all pretty logical as you have 4 way rocker with central OK action plus two flexible menu/action buttons either side. Takes nano-sim like my iPhone and memory card for extra storage of photos etc. Photo resolution ranges upto 1280x960 which is very good for a non smartphone. Also brightness, contrast, exposure-bias, multi-shot, white balance, self-timer. So way better than most feature phones. Coupled with it's three single button favourite phone contact and an emergency call button on the back, it could be the ideal older person's phone. No video option-just still photos which it does a good job of. It also has simple illuminated icons when phone closed to indicate a phone call, message, low battery. Oh battery lasts for days and usb-c charge port. Bluetooth and 3.5mm earphones support. Extras include an easy to use 4 function calculator with M+ M- +- etc. Good calendar with daily weekly monthly views. No games. Good/Bad it depends on you. In summary very good phone if you don't want a smartphone.

I love this little phone. It's my Nighttime phone! I don't want to take a smart phone to bed with me so wanted one that I could use in an emergency. It would make a good basic phone for children too. Mostly I use it to send messages to my smart phone downstairs to remind me of things I'd remembered when I went to bed! It would have had 5 stars if it had the software to play a playlist of music. It has a storage card on which I put all my music, but you can only play one track at a time which is really annoying if you're trying to get ready for bed or want gentle background music to help you sleep! Nevertheless, I would purchase again and can recommend it.

Super phone - I'm really pleased with mine. I bought it mainly to use as a back up phone for home and also because the EE signal here on my iphone is not great, but the SMARTY signal in the house is good - so I'm using this Panasonic as you would a landline, basically. Much cheaper than an actual landline, and great for emergency use. I bought this for about £38 on Amazon Warehouse (used, excellent condition). For me (44yrs old) - I have had no issues using the phone or working out settings, volumes etc - it's pretty straighforward to use and no instruction manual neeeded for me at least. Love the old school flip action to answer/hang up. Battery life seems excellent so far. Cal quality is very good but not perfect. According to Panasonic this phone is enabled for HD voice calls (also called VoLTE)… which basically uses the 4G network to enhance call quality. My SIM/provider I don’t think has yet rolled out this service to my area so I’m hoping this will soon happen so that call quality is even better.

Panasonic KX-TU550EXB 4G Essentials review. This phone does have various ring tones, the digits and contacts are clear and not tiny. You can turn off the start up music, simple to use and some of the other reviews must be in using different model.

I really wanted to like this phone but the solid build and good looks are let down by poor functionality and useless instructions. The 'instructions' that come with it are printed so small they are almost impossible to read, and when you manage to read them they don't cover some pretty basic info that users will need. There don't seem to be any fuller instructions available on line. White text on a pale blue background in menus? What genius thought that was a good combo in a phone aimed at elderly people? It takes both hands to operate, again not great for the elderly or infirm. No predictive text, wtf? No easy way to copy across the contacts from my old phone, I've tried transferring by usb, by blutooth, via my PC, and with an SD card. It just doesn't find them. Bizarre way of displaying text conversations, not sequential sent and received. It doesn't compare well even against a basic Nokia from 5 years ago despite being expensive for a dumbphone, even with the Black Friday discount it is twice the price of a better phone. I'm very disappointed. I've always rated Panasonic gear highly and this was potentially a good phone, but they seem to have made a physically good phone let down by ignoring user needs and expectations on the functionality.

Very complicated, minute texts and instructions, good sturdy construction, okay for SHORT texts, dialling tone short unchangeable, very easy if call is missed, check small details, watch out for long conversations, eats up charging time, conversation can suddenly break up, become garbled, receive texts ok, sending texts, forget it, camera is good but again very difficult to set up, light strong good, sound average, instruction manual microscopic, PATIENCE IS NEEDED THROUGHOUT WITH USE, text is very complicated to use, thus short text and replies recommended, memory is needed for various routines to try to achieve your 'goal'. dexterity is imperative thus usage for the older user, keep away from this mobile phone

About half of the instructions describe how to set the battery on fire or make it explode. The text on the diagram is way too small for anyone to read. Instructions even fail to mention that you have to remove the backshell to installSIM card and battery. No mention of any of the special functions. Web instructions no better. In use, function is marred by unnecessary, excessively loud and very long melody that occurs when switching on or off. Even plays when auto shutdown occurs. No way to adjust or disable. Light only works when phone is switched on. The phone does however work and looks sturdy. Whether the melody will scare an older person from using it is unclear. Charging dock well engineered. Needs a firmware rewrite to make it less offensive and proper instructions. Update, after about 3 months, whilst it was stood on my bedside cabinet it developed a fault. Now it shows two reception bars but with a red cross above them. I think this means that it is not transmitting a beacon signal to negotiate with a cell tower. This is a relatively expensive phone and should give at least 5 years service. It has been handled with great care. I will contact Panasonic when I have the time, but have had to buy an alternative product in the interim which, incidentally, has far better instructions. Perhaps an early 4G adopter, lacking experience, that is best avoided. Red in colour but lemon in use.

Contrary to some reviews here, this is really excellent if you are buying for an older friend or relative. The battery life is phenomenal, and it even has a function where you can turn it off at night and wake automatically in the morning which would make this even better. Good build quality, feels very robust, the display is clear and simple. Contacts are clearly displayed, and its very nice to have the three buttons at the top of the pad for regularly called numbers. Message function is fine. There's an alarm function on the back which is slightly recessed, its not going to be called by accident. Moderate weight, quite light. The qualifications? You will have to set it up for them. The user guide is unreadable, and even when you download a pdf, its not very helpful. Trying to figure out how to lower or raise the ring tone volume, for instance? I gave up. But you can get the same effect by changing ring tones, so its not critical. The back is quite hard to pry off, to put in battery and sim card. But it does come off OK if you pry it open carefully and firmly. It doesn't have a radio function. It will take a 32G micro sd card however, and when you connect to a pc it will ask whether you want to go into mass storage mode, after which you can add audiobooks or music. If you want it to answer on opening, which most will want, that has to be set, so another dive into the setup menus. All these niggles only apply to setting it up. Once that's done, its going to be just about ideal. Recommended.

Das Handy gefällt mir sehr gut. Es ist leicht zu bedienen.

Een goede telefoon voor ouderen. Voordeel van deze is dat de SOS knop achterop ook kan worden uitgeschakeld. Geluidskwaliteit is goed.. als ik een minpunt zou moeten geven is dat het nogal traag opladen.

Super facile à utiliser mais une seule sonnerie possible (dommage!)

Den var inte på svenska , som doro leva 31 är på. Men sen så är det sen finns det andra sidor i mobilen som är bra...bra pris tycker jag att den har.. Lätt att använda är den...mvh Henry

Simpel maar goed als je enkel wil bellen Goede prijs en levertijd