Anyway to easy answer a call on Samsung S8 for ill person ?

[PostHeads123]

My dad is terminally ill and went into hospice a few days back, he is now at a point he cant answer a mobile phone but can just about hold it (has brain cancer and its screwed up his motor skills), he has a Samsung S8 is there anyway you can change the settings on this so incoming calls can be answer by a voice command or something may be an app ? Or may be some other type of phone ?

Annoyingly the hospice doesn't have a cordless phone so when I've called them they cant take the phone to him.

thanks

[ArsE92]

PostHeads123 said:

My dad is terminally ill and went into hospice a few days back, he is now at a point he cant answer a mobile phone but can just about hold it (has brain cancer and its screwed up his motor skills), he has a Samsung S8 is there anyway you can change the settings on this so incoming calls can be answer by a voice command or something may be an app ? Or may be some other type of phone ?

Annoyingly the hospice doesn't have a cordless phone so when I've called them they cant take the phone to him.

thanks

Sorry to hear about your Dad.

I don't know much about Android these days but this looks like it might help.

Or this actually looks more appropriate.

[sjg]

You can have auto answer if a headset (wired or bluetooth) is connected - https://www.blogtechtips.com/2017/12/19/automatica...

One of those retro-style telephone handsets that plugs in on the 3.5mm jack might be easier to hold - they usually have a physical pickup/hangup button too, this sort of thing: https://www.amazon.co.uk/VBESTLIFE-Telephone-Recei...

[Munter]

You can get mobiles designed to be a bit easier to work with e.g. : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Doro-6515-Secure-SIM-Free...

But I think some of the suggestions above might be cheaper, and involve less change to him.

[Shuvi McTupya]

Buy the hospice a cordless phone? That will probably annoy the hell out of them though, or they will come up with some bullst about not being allowed to use it..