Comments on: ZTE S306 review: a phone for gramps http://www.techcentral.co.za/zte-s306-review-a-phone-for-gramps/16636/ South Africa's technology news leader Tue, 22 May 2012 09:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Anton http://www.techcentral.co.za/zte-s306-review-a-phone-for-gramps/16636/comment-page-1/#comment-17690 Anton Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:39:57 +0000 http://www.techcentral.co.za/?p=16636#comment-17690 At last!! We (probably like many other people) dreamed up and wanted this nearly 10 years ago for my aging grandparents, and finally a manufacturer has had the vision to make one!! Kudos to ZTE! Awesome emergency feature noted by Greg - great thinking by the developers!! Does it have speakerphone for the emergency call? At last!! We (probably like many other people) dreamed up and wanted this nearly 10 years ago for my aging grandparents, and finally a manufacturer has had the vision to make one!! Kudos to ZTE!

Awesome emergency feature noted by Greg – great thinking by the developers!! Does it have speakerphone for the emergency call?

]]> By: Greg http://www.techcentral.co.za/zte-s306-review-a-phone-for-gramps/16636/comment-page-1/#comment-17603 Greg Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:45:31 +0000 http://www.techcentral.co.za/?p=16636#comment-17603 I bought one of the older versions of this for my technophobe father, he LOVES it. Literally every time I see him he tells me how awesome it is. Apart from the television remote, this is probably the only piece of electronic equipment he's ever said something positive about. My mother's now asked for one for her birthday, and is ready to ditch her fancy-pants Nokia. Everything works as advertised, it's small, light, tough as nails and does everything that he needs in a phone, and being someone who had a heart attack a while back, the entire family takes comfort in the panic button - it actually goes a little further than the article mentions. First, it SMSes some preset numbers with the panic alert, and then starts dialling the numbers, if nobody picks up in X rings, it will hang up and go on to the next until someone answers. I bought one of the older versions of this for my technophobe father, he LOVES it. Literally every time I see him he tells me how awesome it is. Apart from the television remote, this is probably the only piece of electronic equipment he’s ever said something positive about. My mother’s now asked for one for her birthday, and is ready to ditch her fancy-pants Nokia.

Everything works as advertised, it’s small, light, tough as nails and does everything that he needs in a phone, and being someone who had a heart attack a while back, the entire family takes comfort in the panic button – it actually goes a little further than the article mentions. First, it SMSes some preset numbers with the panic alert, and then starts dialling the numbers, if nobody picks up in X rings, it will hang up and go on to the next until someone answers.

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