Most of the people in our country have, at least, a Mobile phone. From children with only eleven or twelve years to older. For the little ones, it is easy to handle new technologies and adapt to everyone. For the elderly it is somewhat more difficult to adapt to mobile phones, small print, low volume ... but there are ways to adapt your Android mobile for older people.
If you want your grandparents to have a phone and you are already looking for which one to choose and how to make it easier to use it so that they can go quietly on vacation this summer and can call their children, grandchildren and take photos of their trip, there are options. There are applications that will make the use of Android easier for the elderly.
Simple Senior Phone
Simple Senior Phone is a launcher designed for grandparents who have not yet managed to say goodbye to their old Nokia mobile. The launcher has very large and colorful buttons that give simple instructions: send an SMS, call ... A simple and useful app for our grandparents if they are reluctant to adapt and just want the phone for the simpler.
With the laucher you can access android apps normal but it also has its own applications with very basic versions to make it easy to use: camera, calculator, music, calls, messages. In addition, Simple Senior Phone includes the buttons "LOCATE" and "SOS" that will allow you to know where the elderly person is by sending their location or asking for help from contacts that have been specially configured for that button.
Necta Launcher
Another very simple launcher is Necta Launcher. A simple interface that shows, in large buttons, the main options that an older person might need: the camera, calls, messages, photo gallery (it is important to show off grandchildren), SOS, or flashlight. Buttons applications are great and so is the phone dialer, with numbers that take up the entire screen so that there is no problem when dialing.
Necta Launcher also shows some information such as temperature, time, date ... You can include favorite contacts that will appear on the main screen, without having to navigate between the agenda. In addition, it has a button that will display the phone number of that mobile, so that they do not have to memorize it or look for it among the contacts if they have to give it to a friend or someone who needs it.
Volume amplifier
If there is a complaint that is often repeated among grandparents, it is that the phone rings very soft and, therefore, they have not been able to pick it up. If the volume of the Android phone is not enough for you to be heard, no problem. There are applications that They allow you to increase the volume of Android without many complications.
One of them is Goodev Volume Booster. The app allows you to increase the volume of the phone so that is heard louder than normal on Android although always be careful not to damage the ears or the speakers of the phone.
Bigger keys
Another common complaint is that cHow are they going to type with those tiny keys that are not seen. Putting the largest keys on Android is possible. There are keyboards that allow you to get bigger, for example, in the case of Sfitkey. Quality assured and a larger size that can be configured from the keyboard options menu. There are five different sizes: two with a size larger than the standard, so the keys will be seen without any problem.
If SwiftKey isn't enough, you can download some of the giant-sized keyboards from the Google Play Store. This is the case, for example, of Big Buttons Keyboard, which will grow the keys to fill the majority of the screen. So that there is no problem to write messages, notes or to send a WhatsApp.
