Re: replace phone key board with picture buttone - learning disability project

["Kale" <kale@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is a phone offered by one of the major wireless carriers called the
Firefly.  It acts as a regular cell phone, except that it has no traditional
keypad: only a bank of numbers that call pre-determined numbers.  The
buttons have simple pictures on them, like fire for emergency services, etc.
The buttons are also larger than regular cell phone keypads (which are
usually quite tiny).  That might help for your mobile question.

Kale

<eschuylerTAKE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> martshan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>>Can anyone help me on this?
>>I'm trying to design a simple phone system for a group of adults with
>>learning disabilities. We need to replace standard phone keypads with
>>bigger keypads that will take picture stickers so that, say, you push
>>the button with a car on it to dial out for a taxi. Plus each button
>>should default to memory dial, so that you can only choose one of 10
>>pre-programmed useful numbers.
>>Additionally, it would be useful if there was someway of extending the
>>keypad of a mobile phone (bluetooth device?) so that they could have
>>similar system for a mobile phone.
>>You could possibly do this simply by having a keypad device that
>>emitted the various dial tones for the niumbers. Can you buy such a
>>device anywhere?
>>(I need something that doesn't imvolve any soldering, because my
>>soldeing is rubbish).
>
> This isn't exactly what you're looking for, but it does have picture
> buttons for dialing 9 programmed numbers. I don't see any way to disable
> the standard number buttons, though.
>
> http://www.hearmore.com/store/prodView.asp?idproduct=258&idstore=2&category=By_Manufacturer&product=Ameriphone_P-300_Amplified_Photo_Phone
>
> Regards,
> Eric