Doro PhoneEasy 100W DECT Cordless Phone with Amplified Sound and Big Buttons (Twin Set/White) [UK and Irish Version]
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| Dimensions: | 19.2 x 17.9 x 10.2 cm; 570 Grams |
| Model: | 5551 |
| Batteries Included: | 4 AA batteries required. |
| Manufacture: | Doro |
| Dimensions: | 19.2 x 17.9 x 10.2 cm; 570 Grams |
Easy to use
I ordered these for my lovely mum and dad who are both hard of hearing and the extra large buttons are a bonus. It was really easy to set up too.
Great for hard of hearing
Very easy to use, except for the Audio Boost button, which is a fiddly little surface flush button on the side. Hard to access and press for an oldie, which is most likely the target market! Otherwise great.
My mum is really pleased with the phone especially the clear numbers and the automatic answer facility noore hunting for the green and red buttons. We bought the 100w duo and a single 100w so she has a phone in the hall, by her chair and also bedside wish I had thought about this type of phone earlier. I had a problem linking the extra phone but I phoned the helpline and the guy who answered was excellent and had it all set up in seconds……..the same person had given me advice on the best phone for mum’s needs. I didn’t get his name but I was delighted with his knowledge and customer service was 100%. Thanks very much Doro.
Good phone for elderly people,clear,bright.Good size for seeing numbers. One problem is the manual can be confusing for the older person I had to print off the manual for elderly person to help them. If you don’t have a computer and printer you have a awkward time with the manual. OVERALL GOOD PHONE WOULD RECOMMEND.They only had it a short while still getting used to it and setting it up for them.
Brought for my mom who is hard of hearing. It is very good only downside is that you have to pay for ringer ID. Can’t store number and view who is calling as with her old phone.
This was purchased for mum aged 84 Excelle
Great product for elderly
Sound acoustics
Large numbers
Easy to install
As described.
Excellent service and product as described. Very pleased with purchase.
Not perfect, but does the job.
Our previous phone was not loud enough for us oldies to hear clearly what was being said. This one does the job, though we have found it rather hard to set up and the instructions could be better.
Loud phone
Got this for elderly relative loud and big buttons perfec
Great phones for my elderly mum
This phone is excellent for the elderly. My mum who is 93 loves it. The volume is ideal as she can now hear the ringer. The large numbered buttons on the phone are also well though out. Easy to assemble and put into use.
Great produc
Excellent quality, easy to use for my 96 year old Grandmother 🙂
easy to use
used as house phones one downstairs one up,easy to use large numbers and sound adjustment,well pleased with them thankyou
ease of use
I love the phone so easy to use and find with the pager system.
Large button landlune phone.
Very nice phone with fast same day delivery. The large buttons on it make it a lot easier to not misdial numbers.
I like the speaker phone part especially, as I’m hard of hearing. My old phone was very poor for this, and my new one is so much better.
Many thanks
Linda
Also glad I chose a white one, easier to see.
Numbers clear and easy to read, speaker phone much better and white one 3asier to when lying on a surface
Love these phones
They’re exactly what I wanted powerful ring tone which is great for me as I am partially deaf. They are very modern looking and go with all my decor in any room.
Good phone
Great for my deaf parents in thier ops Lind button enables them to hear well
Èasypeasy to use I am pleased I bought it i
Needed to replace the phone the figures are alot easier to see being large
Dorothy phone
Great phone, good features, bought for my 94 year old mum so needed something easy for her to use, quite easy to set up, would highly recommend.
Good volume and ring tone.
Bought for elderly parents who both have hearing problems. They are delighted with their new phones. Good volume, they can now hear the phone ringing!
Easy to use phone
My elderly father was having difficulty in making phone calls. Using the Doro phone has helped him
Great purchase
Really pleased much easier to use , hear & so easy to set up
My husband is hard of hearing & really hated answering the phone now he’s happy too our favourite function is the boast button on the side if your struggling to hear a soft spoken person push the boast button & it’s clear as day !
Good buy
They were for my parents as they had trouble hearing the other phone and they are very pleased with them the volume is great and hands free means they both can have a conversation with the family
Good phone for anyone who is hard of hearing
The clarity and volume is very good, easy to enter contacts,. Downside – only stores 20 contacts and have not managed to store the one press numbers in Memory 1 and 2 (I am not very tec savvy) but entering the contacts was easy. I would have gone for the 105wr if I had researched more as this has an answerphone attached. Still very pleased with the purchase – good value for money and excellent for both my husband and I being hard of hearing, the clarity of sound is very good. The volume control set at 5 is sufficient for us at present but we can also use the boost button on the side to increase sound further if required.
Great Phone
Brought the Twin Set for my 89 year old Mother in Law. She is Hard of hearing. Easy to set up and she is now able to answer the phone with ease. I would Personally recommend to anyone with same issue. 5 *****
DORO wireless domestic telephones
I recommend this product from Doro, which I believe to be a Scandinavian company, some of whose telecommunication products we already possess. Excellent reception and easy to use, particularly for older people.
The sound amplification.
I wish I had bought this phone years ago. It has good amplification, which is really helpful for someone of my age (let’s leave it at senior citizen!) The BT cordless I had was failing, so had to be replaced.
Almost perfec
Plus points: Great delivery, good for hearing, decent value overall good phone.
Minus points: Display of numbers not great, not enough phonebook name displays.
Can sometime accidentally turn volume down on the side.
Perfect for older folks
Purchased as a gift for my Mum (80yrs old) who was struggling with the buttons on her old phone and missing many calls. No problems with these, loud and clear audio at both ends of the call and she loves them.
Great phone
Bought this for a elderly person who has found it quite easy to use, they also have trouble hearing a standard phone and the sound is very good o this phone
Almost perfec
Bought for my 97 yr old Mum, very deaf and frail. Good points are she can work the “amplify” button easily, so is happy to be able to understand conversations again. She says she likes the “M1” and “M2” buttons as a quick way to dial family (me!) and has little or no difficulty in seeing the keypad buttons (1,2,3,,4 etc) even with poor eyesight. The only (slight) negative (hence the four stars rather than five) is the ringer volume is not unusually loud. It, probably, is no different than ordinary phones. This means she cannot hear it above the TV or when in another room. However, the purchase of an Amplifier (at a reasonable price) for the ringer soon sorted that, so, overall, happy with the ‘phone.
Really nice phone
I loved everything about this phone, its design and features and the boost button for volume was brilliant. Sadly I had to return it as it didn’t ring or flash for incoming calls. I was on the phone to Doro for ages speaking to a very helpful lady who went through all of the features on the phone to get it to work, but to my disappointment to no avail.
I’m not sure if it wasn’t compatible with my phone provider (after lots of googling).
I ended up with a different make of phone with the same features which works perfectly.
I feel safer now I have this phone
I like the fact that I can now see who is calling as in the past I have had so many ‘cold callers’ and some dangerous ones. The sound quality of the ring tone is too quiet, I don’t always hear it ring.I’m happy all in all
Does exactly what we need. We are 2 OAP’s and need large numbers and clear scxreens. The only thing is that the ringtone is difficult to hear even on full power. Probably because we are hard of hearing!!
Love it would reccommend
Volume on base ringer problem
The handset is very easy to use. I am disappointed that the base ringer is not loud enough for me to hear even when wearing hearing aids when I am
in a room except where the phones are situated ( one upstairs and one downstairs )
Great Product but not Exactly What Was Needed
Although this was a fantastic product, I had not realised that there was no answer phone facility (entirely my fault) and so I had to return the phones to the supplier. Not at all a reflection on the service or the product; had there been an answer phone facility then I would have kept the phones.
Phone
Had problems blend with amplifier doesn’t work as it should it does work but you have press it several times
Good volume
I can hear much better on this phone than others I have purchased
Hearing what's been said without hassle
Big letters and the sound is nice and loud. perfect for old people,with hearing problems
Good quality phone
For my elderly mum , easy to set up but still a little complicated for my mum.
Good produc
Brought these for my elderly mum she is much better with this phone large buttons volume control
Brilliant. “Honestly”. Brilliant.
Bought this phone for my mum who’s deaf was a wary before buying as some reviews were negative? Regarding sound and ring tone etc. But I shouldn’t been this is a great phone everything is fine on it sound ringing tone are good mum can hear it easily also the amplified sound when on the phone she says is brilliant and with the big buttons it’s super easy to use also the 2 memory buttons means she can call her 2 best friends simply. She likes it. That’s good enough for me. G
I bought this phone for my Mum who is 93, quite deaf and she struggles to learn to use anything new. Set the phone to easy answer showed her how it worked and where the button for extra loud was and that was it. This phone is so easy to set up and easy to use, the extra large button are great and the extra loud function for hearing impaired people is wonderful. I would recommend this phone to anyone.
Much larger to hold than other phones
Advertising says loud ring. Even on maximum this is only adequate. Not as loud as I would have expected.
Simple, No nonsense phone.
Like all Dora products incl: their cordless phone easily accessible no nonsense, I wouldn’t particular associate this phone with the more senior customers despite the larger numbers all the functions are there as in any regular cordless phone. Perfect.
Doro Twin.
Good easy to use handset. Ringer could be slightly louder. My mums happy with the purchase.
Good
Easy when you learn how to turn up . Must admit thought it would be loude
Very good phone for elderly
Very easy to set up and use – purchased for my elderly mum. Large buttons that sound when pressed also volume boost to assist hearing and loud speaker / hands free option. Only one negative – only stores around 10 numbers in memory and they have to be entered onto each handset manually – they don’t sync. But excellent simple phone for elderly to use.
Good
Purchased for my Mum!
Nice big button, simple to use
Boost in side for volume perfec
Easy to hea
These were a Christmas present for my parents they seem very pleased with them they can now hear the caller and see the buttons
Well made and simple trade use
Phone is well made and easy to use. I had intended on returning it, but there were so many clauses in the returns policy for Stuff-UK regarding what they would and wouldn’t accept, it’s simpler to keep it. Won’t be using them again though.
Use as speaker phone
Bought for neighbor who is partly deaf. Not able to use as phone to ear but product works well as a speaker phone. She is pleased to use phone this way
Big buttons
Nice big buttons for my mum and simple display. Also flashes when the phone rings , nice extra
We bought this set probably 18 months ago now and it has given faultless service. OK, it is not perhaps quite as easy to use the menu as others are but once you are used to its little ways, you can live with it! At the end of the day, we bought it to make and receive phone calls and we wanted a caller display. It does all of that. Who needs all the complicated gadgetry, really?! Turning the volume up and down is easy enough and whilst the speaker system isn’t exactly “Dolby surround sound” it is more than adequate, unless your getting one of those irritating marketing calls from the other side of the world, but that is usually because of the person at the other end of the line! What has impressed us is the tough and durable nature of this set. The handsets have been dropped, stolen by our German Shepherd Dog and hidden! One handset was inadvertently left out in the garden overnight. It rained! When discovered next morning, it was soaking wet and lying half in a pool of water. Dried it off with paper towel and discovered it to be in full working order! For the money, I really don’t think this tough twin set phone can be beaten!
Ok but not quite what we needed
Bought for mother in law who’s got macular degeneration and very little eyesight and very hard of hearing so it’s very difficult to find an easy to use phone.
To be honest she struggles with the phones but she doesn’t want a corded phone which have bigger numbers so she tries to manage
louder than my previous dect phone
My hearing isn’t the best and this phone seems to be of help. Bright and easy to use for the basics.
Best Cordless phone by miles!
Great phone! Nice handset to hold, buttons are big and easy to use without being too in-your-face, easy to work and great clear sound. Everything a cordless phone should be. 5*
Ease of use particularly for the elderly or handicapped .
This was a replacement for my previous Doro which after many years was giving me problems. I insisted on the same model as I am 87 and ont like change! I can certainly recommend the Doro if anyone has problems with today’s smaller phones. The buttons re big and clear. I have also bought a Doro mobile phone for my husband to carry with him when we are apart. Congrats to the designer.
I bought this phone for my hard of hearing grandmother as I was getting tired of having to shout down the phone and repeat myself.
Once I set it up, put in the contacts etc it was very easy for my gran to use. The boost and volume buttons are clear as is the text on the phone.
Recommended.
Great features for an elderly perso
This has nice big keys and lots of features for someone who is hard of hearing. I particularly liked the loudspeaker button, which I feel is a useful feature. Although my 90 year old Mum hasn’t actually used it yet as it only came yesterday and has been on charge, I think she is going to be as pleased as I am.
Ideal for hard of hearing and easy to use
Bought this for my Parents who are both in their eighties. My dad has poor vision and hearing problems but he is ok with this phone. I don’t have to shout anymore when I ring them. It was easy to set up , was able to use after plugging in and the phone is easy for them to use i.e making and answering calls and disconnecting calls.
Keep it simple.
Set up for elderly parents ( late 80s) as they would not have been able to manage it on their own. Good quality chunky handsets and clear big number pad, display clear and sound loud. Early days, yet to know how they will get on with it i.e using the volume and boost. The M1/ M2 mem keys weren’t initially intuitive to set and took me a bit of scrolling thru menu to find ( on HS Set mode). They will need reminding to press and hold M1/M2 keys to get them to dial. Call log feature clogs up display and caused confusion – what does this mean? etc; , have to go into menu to clear it but they don’t need hassle of doing that. Couldn’t see option to disable call log?
Really is a case of the simpler the better at their age.
Love i
It does exactly what it says on the box more than happy she can use the phone for the first time in years
Easy listening on a phone
This Doro Phone was purchased for an elderly parent who has just started using hearing aids and was struggling to hear anything with his old phone. Whilst setting up the handsets and storing contacts is quite laborious using the phone is simple. Whilst we have not tried using the inbuilt loop system yet the speaker phone and volume boost is more than sufficient for his current needs. Would recommend the phone for anybody with hearing loss
Easy to use
Excellent ringtone so can be heard over TV radio etc. and very easy to use. Already in possession of a Doro mobile so expected good quality which is what it is.
That he could clearly see what he was pressing.
For my father who has reduced sight, he found the keys bright enough and large enough to see and press. All very impressed with it. Sound quality good too.
Simple to use
Bought this for our 92 year old mum,quite hard of hearing,but she hears this and also finds controls easy.So far seems a success
Delivered on time and in good conditio
I bought this phone for my elderly mother in law who has just had a knee operation and could not get up to use her normal landline phone, and as we have very poor mobile connectivity, we looked for a suitable twin phone set. The phone is perfect for my mother in law as she has one by a bedside and one in her lounge and has no problems with operating the phone and can relax knowing that she can contact us when ever she needs to with out struggling to get to her traditional landline phone
Bought this for my grandfather as he is hard of hearing and his eyesight is going. The buttons are larger than normal and it has the option to turn it right up. Ideal for him
Great phone for hard of hearing
Phone brought for hard of hearing parent and has certainly made a difference as she is now able to hear what callers are saying!!
It is loud
Loved the big numbers and the style, was disappointed with the sound at first but then a friend came to visit and said when answering it press the green telephone button twice that did the trick, it is great now. It came early and well packed.
worked for a mostly deaf 91 year old.
I got these for my 91 year old mother (to use in her room) and they were fine.
She is fairly deaf.
They could be louder and they could be simpler (less functions) but they worked (and the price was good).
I had previously bought the product fve years ago and used the two phones as replacements for phones in an existing system, so I knew what I was buying this time. Prevously, I had not used the Base Unt aspect of the set, I had only replaced two handsets. This time I replaced the Base Unit of the old system and connected the two old Doro handsets to the new Base – as per instructons. No problems.It all worked well following the instructions in the handbook. I am very pleased with the product and so is my mother.
I have Arthritis and find it hard to hold phones, but this one is perfect for my hands. There is not much choice in ring tones, but they are good enough & I love the fact that I only need click the answer button twice to get the loud speaker on . This phone has to be clearer than any phone that I have bought and paid a lot for in the past despite being the cheapest that I have ever bought. I am elderly as well as Arthritic & I have no hesitation in recommending this phone to anybody. The instructions , once I sat down and read them slowly, were easy to follow. Great phones, great service.
Not older person proof but has a pretty good go at it.
very good even for compete technophobes. No scrub that. My parents make a call then don’t disconnect properly so I have to rush round to the house to check they are ok as I cant get through on the phone. Good for extra volume and clear numbers.
Had already purchased the Doro duo 100W phones from Amazon a couple of years ago, and recently decided I needed another for the upstairs bedroom. Registering it to the existing base was an absolute doddle, no fuss, it just did what it said in the instructions. Great product for those needing a large button phone with some amplification for the hard of hearing.
UPDATE Jan 2018
After only 14 months (2 months out of warranty !) the ‘CALL key’ has stopped responding to being pressed so it will no longer connect to the base station or answer calls, the other base station handset is displaying the same but intermittent fault.
Based on this, I rescind my original review, and would NOT recommend their purchase as a result of this.
Excellent in many ways but there are some missing features
Generally works as expected and has plenty of adjustment to ringer volume and speaker volume. A good selection of ringtones and the ability to attach a ringtone to a contact is good. On the other hand my wife & I use the internal phone probably more than phoning out and it is irritating that in that situation you have to wait until a connection is made before the person dialling can switch the speaker on. There is no such problem with external calls. One more slight negative (probably due to the fact that we do not have an answer phone base unit) the contacts lists have to be entered separately in each handset.
Great product; especially for the elderly.
I got these for my uncle who was having difficulty hearing people on the phone. Specifically the speaker function seems to work well with his hearing aids.
The buttons are really nice and large, which is essential given his cataracts and his arthritis.
Lovely.
good clear scree
good clear screen , large keys, good audio which is a boon for the senior members
of the family.
Excellent.
This is a really excellent cordless phone. I had been struggling to find a model that didn’t come with a pesky answering machine and that did have charging bases for all its units. This fits the bill brilliantly. It’s really easy to use and does a great job.
Ergonomics and instructions far from good but the sound is very clea
Ergonomics and instructions far from good but the sound is very clear, the ring tone volume is excellent for someone with damaged hearing and so is the volume control for speech which is adjusted with a simple toggle on the side of the phone. Against that is that a previous purchase failed after 9 months and its speech was not as noticeably good, but it was replaced without difficulty by Amazon.
Fine
Its fine but over priced. If the elderly are the target market, simplicity is the key. This could be simplified more!
Highly visible
I got these for my dad who was hard of hearing and almost blind. We needed a phone beside his bed for security. This seemed to be the best option and worked fine. They are highly visible, the buttons are large and the middle number button has a dimple making it easy to locate where you are on the keypad by touch alone.
Really good for my mum who has very limited visio
Really good for my mum who has very limited vision. Speaker phone button is the same as the one you answer the phone with making it easier than her last phone which was a separate button. Would be a good idea if the number buttons were backlit but the phones that are backlit, the buttons are smaller.
I first saw this phone in the RNIB catalogue but at double the price! I bought this for elderly parents so they could have the phone next to where they normally sit. Dad’s hard of hearing and registered blind and mum’s easily confused but I am happy to report that Dad can hear perfectly even without his earing aids as I’ve set the volume up high and it has large buttons so he is quite happy with it. Once mum remembered that this phone has their old phone number she appears to be coping with it very well. This has been perfect for the purpose it was bought for.
Ticks the boxes!
Great for older parents as they have trouble with the small buttons and hearing. Ticked all the boxes for them.
Bought for my mum who is getting on, it works quite well and the big buttons are a boon for her, the only downside is the boost button on the side, it is fiddly and not easy to use if you want to increase volume when on the phone, plus whilst I got her a two phone pack if you wanted to add another it does not seem possible according to the Dorohandbook/website.
GOOD PENSIONERS PHONE!
AS A PENSIONER I LOVE THIS PHONE it has large enough display and numbers that I don’t have to search for my glasses! The storage for numbers is quite small and as I have a great number of friends this is a bit of a problem deciding WHO should go on my list but otherwise its great!
Bought for my father as it has big buttons and more importantly an amplifier. He uses the speakerphone feature all the time time. Hope they keep making these as he has a habit of spilling tea over them (they are not waterproof which would be a good feature!) – the good news is you can buy an extra phone and integrate it with an existing base station very easily.
Doro PhoneEasy 100W Cordless Phone
Bought for my very elderly (92+) mother so that she does not need to get up from her chair to answer the phone. The base station is in her bedroom. She has poor sight so the big numbers are very useful although returning the handset to the cradle is a bit fiddly for her. It can be set to auto-answer on pick-up, and she seems to be coping without any difficulty after a few practice runs. She would not have attempted to use anything more complicated.
Very good
Bought this for my 95 year old mother who has arthritic hands and needs the large buttons. I set it up for her and she is using it OK. But it is perhaps over complicated for someone elderly and she is trying to read the manual thoroughly and learn all the things it will do, though I have told her just to use it like her last phone!
She does not need the extra loud volume as her hearing is OK, but it certainly sounds loud enough for anyone who does need this.
At least this uses standard AAA rechargeable batteries. Her previous Doro used a fitted battery that had stopped holding its charge and would have cost nearly as much as the phone to replace.
Ideal for the visually and hearing impaired.
I bought these phones for my father in law who is over 90 years old. The buttons are large and clear and the screen text and numerals are larger than those on a regular phone. The ringtones are clear and there is also a volume boost function which we have not used as yet.
If I did have a grumble, it would be that there are more buttons than he needs or understands. However, I suppose most phones have more functions than most people require.
Doro PhoneEasy 100w Twin DECT cordless phone
it is a good phone, for my 90 year old deaf mother, (the audio boost is great,) it is a little complicated only because she has had a stroke too but she can still use it.
It did go wrong after 4 months, and I had to have it replaced, but Amazon was an amazing help with this ,they made it very easy and uncomplicated to return it, and replace it with a new one-especially as she is on a ” life line “and it was a worry to us for her to be without a phone.
I’ve given this 5 stars because as a phone for the hard of hearing or partially sighted it is great. These were 2 of the 3 reasons for this purchase. The 3rd reason was because Amazon described it as ‘WALL MOUNTABLE’. This was something that was essential to me. When I received it I took a look and could see NO way of mounting it on the wall. The instruction booklet gives no instructions on how this is possible, so I looked it up on the manufacturers web-site, and according to them it is NOT wall mountable.
If you want a wall mountable phone this is not the one for you.
Doro PhoneEasy Big Button Telephone
Purchased this item for a 93 year old lady who has little use of her hands. Found the setting up of the phones a little complicated have not yet been able to install the ‘telephone listing of her numbers’. The lady finds the buttons a little difficult to use – not easy to push. I would not recommend this telephone for use by an elderly person.
Exactly what was wanted
My old Panasonic phones had served well but had started to malfunction through sheer age and use, one part of the usage of them I never thought that good was the volume, that has all changed with this purchase these Doro phones do just what they say and as my hearing is no longer 100% they are a real boon, they also have nice clear buttons that can used without resorting to glasses every time you use them and the slightly larger size of the phones is no bad thing, smaller for the sake of it is not needed, so these phones are so far doing everything I require.
Big button works
I supported my aunt to purchase this phone. She is registered sight impaired and needed a new telephone that she was able to operate effectively. Having searched on Amazon and read reviews, purchased the phones. It was easy to set up and useful that it has a number of programmed dialled settings. An usual range of ring tones! It also has a button to increase the loudness when on the phone but she doesn’t have a need for this.
Brilliant phone, good price.
I bought this for my mother who was having difficulty with her old phone because of the small buttons – the phone was often not hung up properly. It was easy to set up, the volume levels are good with the option to boost and to use the loud speaker. Mum no longer leaves the phone “off the hook”.
Decent sized handset and buttons for elderly fingers, and I found it very easy to set up. Ringer can also be set to a loud tone. Only problem is having to press different buttons for starting and ending a call which caused my elderly relative a bit of confusion as her previous phone only had one button for this function. Otherwise a good product all round, we no longer have to shout as loudly down our phone to make ourselves heard!
This is a very good product which includes two cordless hand sets that are easy to use and programmmable with 2 memory buttons that are just pressed to instantly ring the designated numbers and a good memory for many more contacts.My elderly parents find them clear to read and easy to use.Like any cordless, they use power and,as we get the occasional power cut, i have installed an ordinary phone as back up for them to use in an emergency. Would certainly recommend them to anyone who needs a clear screen, large buttons, loud, variable sound and easy to use.