📞 Hamilton CapTel HT758000300 2400i Captions Enabled Telephone - Empowering Communication with Enhanced Accessibility Review

Great for my elderly parents. I just wish the handset wasn't wired. Text is entered without punctuation, which can be confusing. I wonder how difficult it would be for the technology to allow different text color for the caller and resident. This makes it easier to follow the conversation. The included autoresponder is great.

The audio on this captioned phone is excellent. Since the words are typed by the person listening to the conversation, a court clerk is required for perfect reading, and I'm sure this is prohibitively expensive. Be that as it may, the words aren't always accurate and appear rather slowly, but it's better than nothing. For the price (or free if you're willing to go to the trouble of getting a referral from an audiologist), it's worth it. By the way, the answering machine in it is excellent.

I ordered it for a friend, I asked him how it works the other day and he said he was happy with it. He's hard of hearing so it really helped him. He is very happy with it and can only recommend it. I installed it for him; When I called to check it in the person I spoke to was very helpful. The reason for the 4 stars is that if you need to turn off the power for any reason OR a power outage occurs, you need to follow some reconfiguration steps. Otherwise it's a very good system.

I bought this phone for my almost 98 year old father who is very hard of hearing. We had some setup issues. But we used our cell phones and called the 800 number listed in the programming literature so they could put us through. We spoke to an incredibly friendly man named Daniel. He guided us through the installation step by step. Even helped us to solve some problems. It is important. My father has Internet telephony, which is good. Its main tube is in the living room and plugged into an…