Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

My mom had some very specific requirements when she asked me to shop for a a replacement for her vintage-1982 (seriously) programmable desk phone that recently died. One of the main requirements was the ability to enter the number to be dialed before committing to dialing it (just like on a cell phone). I believe this requirement is important to her because her visual limitations mean she dials slowly (so the dial tone would time out) and also that she wants to be able to check her entry before dialing (to avoid wrong numbers). This phone filled that bill even better than I had hoped: You can just enter the number with the phone on hook -- there's even a backspace key -- and then it dials automatically when you pick up the handset or activate the speakerphone. Other points: The LCD display is adjustable, which is really important for an LCD. The method for programming numbers into the memory is typical (i.e., rather tedious) but it seems to work just fine. Mom likes to use the speakerphone feature and it sounds very good from my end of the conversation.