- 2 handsets
- DECT-GAP Standard.
- 2 line extra large Dot Matrix LCD Display with backlight
- Handsfree high quality Speakerphone on the handset
- Telephone book for 200 name and numbers
- 9 ringer melodies including 5 polytone
- 5 Display Languages
- Clock and Alarm function
- Max 100 hours standby
- Max 11 hours continuous conversation
- Hearing Aid Compatible
- 35dB Sound & 90dB Ringer
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Technical Details
Product details
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Product Description
Manufacturer's Description
The Amplicon PowerTel 502 Twin Cordless Telephone is a cordless phone set with handsfree speaker phone and special features for hard of hearing and partial sighted users. The phone has the ability to amplify a telephone call up to a total of 35dB and is hearing aid compatible. It has a ringer which can increase to 90dB. With large buttons and a very clear LCD the phone is very simple and easy to use. Even if a user has dexterity problems the large keys reduce the problem of mistakes when pressing buttons.
Product Description
Fully compatible with BT phone lines.
This is a twin version of the Powertel 500 cordless phone. It includes a Powertel 500 (single price £54.99) and an extra handset (single price £52.99) for just £89.99 saving £17.99
Hearing aid compatible for those hearing aid wearers using their 'T' setting.
The main advantage of this twin set, apart from representing better value than buying the two items separately, is that they are already paired and ready to use. Simply plug them into the power socket and the main handset into the BT socket and they are ready to go.
A fantastic model which has the best level of hearing aid compatibility linking directly with hearing aids to provide incredible sound clarity with or even without hearing aids. It's a cordless handset with a powerful handsfree speaker phone, a volume level of up to 10 times louder than standard phones and many other features. But our favourite feature is the Multi User Profiles which enables separate memory settings of the handset to give the ultimate comfort for households with mixed hearing so everyone can use the phone with their personal settings automatically.
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Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
61 of 62 people found the following review helpful
My Father (aged 88) had stopped having telephone conversations because his hearing wasn't good enough and he could never hear what was being said. My Mother (aged 90) would sit in the hallway in the cold, where the fixed phone is, and be uncomfortable while on her hours of calls. A year ago I bought them these phones and they both say how wonderful they are. As wireless phones they work brilliantly and my Mother can sit in comfort or even in the garden when its fine, with no sign of any reception problems. My Father has discovered that his hearing is not as bad as he thought and can have telephone conversations with his family again which is great. I live 250 miles away and was hardly having any contact with him.
I recently got another set for my Mother-in-Law who is 88. She too is so impressed by the clarity and the ability to move around the house while talking. She said it was one of the best things she has bought recently. She keeps one handset in the kitchen and the other upstairs and she takes that one to bed each evening. I've set that so the ring tone is quieter.
The phones are easy to use although they do have more features than either set of parents need and, in both cases, the phones had to be set up for them - instruction manual is complicated for elderly people not particularly familiar with technology. The default ringing tone volume is extremely loud and frightened the life out of my Dad when he first heard it - so that's one of the first things to adjust. One other point I particulalry liked - I entered all of my m-in-l's contact numbers into one phone which is a bit tedious but was then able to copy the entire memory to the other phone very easily.
Overall, highly recommended for the elderly - but actually, great for any age if you like a good sized phone with easy buttons and a clear display.
Later:
Surprised to see no other reviews of these phones - assumed others would have reviewed and I was just adding to the wealth of experience! So to help anyone looking for phones for older people, I should have added the features that set these apart from the many other cordless phone sets available. The handsets are large with large buttons, easy to hold and have good clear displays. Once set up, they are very easy to use to make and receive calls and they have caller display and a light which flashes with the ringer. There is a loudness boost button for the hard of hearing and can be used with or without hearing aids. They also have two quick call buttons for emergency or regularly used numbers and a profile feature so they can be set up for two different people with different hearing abilities. Hope this helps.
I recently got another set for my Mother-in-Law who is 88. She too is so impressed by the clarity and the ability to move around the house while talking. She said it was one of the best things she has bought recently. She keeps one handset in the kitchen and the other upstairs and she takes that one to bed each evening. I've set that so the ring tone is quieter.
The phones are easy to use although they do have more features than either set of parents need and, in both cases, the phones had to be set up for them - instruction manual is complicated for elderly people not particularly familiar with technology. The default ringing tone volume is extremely loud and frightened the life out of my Dad when he first heard it - so that's one of the first things to adjust. One other point I particulalry liked - I entered all of my m-in-l's contact numbers into one phone which is a bit tedious but was then able to copy the entire memory to the other phone very easily.
Overall, highly recommended for the elderly - but actually, great for any age if you like a good sized phone with easy buttons and a clear display.
Later:
Surprised to see no other reviews of these phones - assumed others would have reviewed and I was just adding to the wealth of experience! So to help anyone looking for phones for older people, I should have added the features that set these apart from the many other cordless phone sets available. The handsets are large with large buttons, easy to hold and have good clear displays. Once set up, they are very easy to use to make and receive calls and they have caller display and a light which flashes with the ringer. There is a loudness boost button for the hard of hearing and can be used with or without hearing aids. They also have two quick call buttons for emergency or regularly used numbers and a profile feature so they can be set up for two different people with different hearing abilities. Hope this helps.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
I purchased these Amplicom PowerTel 502 'phones in the hope that they would help my mother keep in touch with me more easily and enable her to hear important calls from doctors and hospitals.She has had them in for two weeks now and can't stop praising them. They really are a great help, I can only say positive things about these 'phones, but if I had to find a negative it would be that they are a little over endowed with features, which the elderly would never understand or realise that they needed. A big plus is that I don't have to shout any more.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Works very well, loud and bright. Even better if you could default the loud mode when answering, and stop the keyboard lock (takes 2 seconds holding down #, easy for an elderly person to do accidentally). Buttons nice and big, screen could be bigger. Overall very good, possibly uniquely loud for a DECT phone.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Absolutely brilliant
After not being able to use the 'phone for over 2 years I can now use it with ease. Highly recommended to anyone with quite severe hearing loss. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Alan
Superb solution for hearing aid users.
After finding the corded Amplicon phone with answer machine my ideal office phone, I was happy to investigate the Amplicon 500 series DECT phones. Read more
Published 7 months ago by I. Melvin
Its ok but........
I bought this pack to suppliment to our Powertel 580 answerphone. It does anything it is supposed to do but we had an annoying beep-beep every hour or so from the set and so we... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Ancient Mariner
Excellence
With my wife being hard of hearing this product, the third we have had, has at last solved her problems and frustrations of not being able to hear on the phone. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Corona
OK But...
Yes its devilishly loud when it rings. Apart from that its fine. What I am disappointed about is the quality of the sound. Read more
Published 13 months ago by R. K. Leask
Phil
Easy to setup and works great. Also, we bought both an Amplicom PowerTel answermachine and alarm phone - these were great as well.
Published 14 months ago by Phil
Amplicom Phones
The product arrived on time and in good order. That was pleasing. HOwever, like moist of these things getting it going was not so straight forward. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Michael
Not very pleased
I ordered the twin set plus two other separate ones as I needed 4 phones. Unfortunately, after charging batteries and setting them all up the phones did not work properly. Read more
Published 16 months ago by kitty
Amplicon PowerTel 502 - excellent
These phones do everything they are supposed to and they do it really well. They are much louder (speech and ringtone) than normal phones and they have very clear displays and... Read more
Published 16 months ago by mouseclicker
good product
I bought these for my mother, who uses hearing aids.
After a bit of a struggle, linking the "slave" 'phone to the base station, they are working well. Read more
After a bit of a struggle, linking the "slave" 'phone to the base station, they are working well. Read more
Published 16 months ago by C. Ridgeon
