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Recommend a Smart-ish phone for older person

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  • 23-11-2015 7:06pm
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    magher
    Registered Users Posts: 202 ✭✭


    I'm looking to get the mother an upgrade over her 10yr old flip phone, just it cannot be an entirely touch based phone.

    Main requirements are:
    * Full qwerty keyboard (or maybe keypad candybar or fliphone)
    * Good battery life
    * Easy to use
    * Somewhat active Appstore
    * Bluetooth
    * Possibility to upgrade with custom OS to get appstore working maybe?

    I was looking at a Nokia E6 or BlackBerry 9900, or even a E52.

    But I'm concerned about apps that are available for these, mainly whatsapp, viber, youtube & chromecast (android/iphone only I guess).

    I can't seem to find what the active app store would be for these now, is it OVI for the nokias? And any blackberry appstore pre OS10 seems to be closed?

    Its disappointing that there doesn't seem to be a single android phone with a full keyboard available, doesn't seem to be anything since the HTC ChaCha nearly 6yrs ago.


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