Senior Citizens Mobile

I was looking for a senior citizen mobile phone that I can gift to my parents and in-laws, who can use it conveniently. The phones we normally have in the market have pretty small keypads, which are difficult to hold, and the letters are tiny. The screen for senior citizens needs to be extra bright; above all, the phone should be simple and have a minimum of the fancy features we crave. This last point rules out most of the smartphones. I know Android smartphones have a few skins and themes from third-party apps that are supposed to be Senior Citizen-friendly, but the touch itself is a problem for my In-Laws or my parents with phones.

After much searching, I narrowed it down to the iBall Aasaan Phone. It is not cutting edge, but it has really large keys, and the screen is super bright orange with black text. It also has an SOS switch at the back, which, when toggled, can be set up to send an SMS and then call five pre-saved numbers and purchased the phone for Rs 2599 from Flipkart. My mother-in-law has been using it for the last few weeks, and she loves the phone.

Update 10/September/2013: The phone was suddenly dropping a lot of calls and developing call hearing problems. I searched and found the following authorised service centre, and gave it for service. After a few days, they returned the fixed phone and it’s working fine again.

Contact person: Mr Ajay,
No. 61, 2nd Floor Singanna Chetty Street, Chintadripet, Chennai-600002
Contact number +(91) – 9094015648

(Disclaimer: I am sharing the above contact as a convenience; please check with the iBall official page for updates)