About this app

IMPORTANT NOTE: this App will be no more upgraded, as it was substituted by another app, referenced in the following, that is similar in the general concepts, but more evolved in presentation and functionalities.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pelix.bigcontacts

BIG PHONE EASY is a fast and simple Android interface for seniors and people with vision problems, or even for people simply fighting against the millions of icons your smartphone normally displays.

BIG PHONE EASY makes the smartphone suitable for seniors, children, and people with eye diseases or motor problems. Now a simple and easy-to-read interface can be used with ease. There is no fear of making a mistake and losing everything with stress-free navigation.

People who knows smartphone can be the "tutor", you can easily install this app and configure it for your dear impaired relative, initialing the app with the needed list of contacts and references. You can select letters, colors and images suitable for the "user" to be easily associated to the target person. Try not to insert too much contacts, insert just the really needed ones.

Once done, the new interface will come up. Contacts will be displayed on the screen one by one, clearly and easily readable, together with a photo or image (only in landscape mode), if you loaded it.

Contacts can be scrolled one by one by a simple left or right "swipe" gesture.

On the upper left corner, if "tutor" enabled the keyboard mode, there is an icon representing a keyboard, if you select it, a big keyboard with big keys will appear, giving you the possibility to dial a number by your own. When you dial a number, the app will vocalize it, making easy the verification of the correct composition.

"Tutor" can also configure Skype "numbers". If you insert a "skype address" in the phone number field, the app will use this address to initiate a skype video-call (obviously Skype must be previously installed on the target smartphone).

Use the help pages to follow instructions.

NOTE: this App is no more supported, as it was substituted by this other app, that is similar in the general concepts, but more evolved in presentation and functionalities.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pelix.bigcontacts

New features

VERSION 2.03
- removed repetitions of startup screen, now it is shown only once at the first start
- removed one page from HELP section

App Permissions

Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.
Allows an application to read SMS messages.
Allows an application to initiate a phone call without going through the Dialer user interface for the user to confirm the call.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Allows an application to modify global audio settings.
Allows an application to see the number being dialed during an outgoing call with the option to redirect the call to a different number or abort the call altogether.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.