{"id":13342,"date":"2013-11-22T02:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=13342"},"modified":"2013-11-23T20:16:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T03:16:31","slug":"desktop-cellular-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/desktop-cellular-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Desktop cellular phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When my elderly mother had to go into a care home we needed to keep in touch by phone.<\/p>\n<p>Care homes do not manage phone systems. You have to make your own landline arrangements with the phone company, and in our circumstance this was impossible.<\/p>\n<p>There was no way could she manage a handheld cellphone\/mobile phone. But a &#8220;fixed wireless terminal&#8221; was a godsend. (Ours was made by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huaweidevice.com\/worldwide\/productFeatures.do?pinfoId=2593&#038;directoryId=5015&#038;treeId=3748&#038;tab=0\">Huawei<\/a>; there are other makes and models out there.)<\/p>\n<p>Elderly people do not need to know it uses a mobile connection, they just use it like a normal phone. It makes a dial tone sound when you lift the phone off the hook, and you can operate it just like a landline phone, so no training is necessary. You just pick up the receiver, dial the number, and after a few seconds it connects automatically and actually puts the number through to the cellphone network. (It you had to press buttons to use the phone, it would have been of no use to us.) <\/p>\n<p>I was surprised that the sellers of these phone didn&#8217;t emphasize that it can be operated just like a normal phone. I guess they haven&#8217;t appreciated the potential seniors market.<\/p>\n<p>Ours has worked well in two different care homes. When she gets a long term place it may be worth installing a landline.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks and behaves like a landline<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13342"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13624,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13342\/revisions\/13624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}