The Geemarc Amplipower 50 looks like your average big button phone for the poor sighted, but it is actually an amplified telephone designed for use by the partially deaf / hard of hearing. It can amplify both the call itself and the ring tones to 60 decibels and is actually recognised by the RNID as an aid to those registered with a hearing disability. I bought one only recently for my Grandpa who is 92, he is near blind and extremely hard of hearing, so obviously we need to get him all the aids we can. I use it regularly as it is his only phone and I am his registered carer and I chose it based on a) the fact it has large buttons so he can see who he is ...  Read the complete review

The Amplipower 50 is designed to help those with a severe to profound hearing loss. As with all Geemard products, the Amplipower 50 has several features which cannot be found on your average landline phone to allow someone with hearing loss to use the telephone as they would have before developing their hearing problem. The phone has an adjustable receiving tone of up to 10DB to ensure that you never miss a phone call again! However, if you feel that you may still miss a call, you can set the strobe visual ringer indicator, which is a strobe light on the bottom of the base. This will flash when the phone rings and is pretty hard to miss! Aswell as ...  Read the complete review