Landline style mobile phone.

My mum is now in a home so I bought her a mobile phone. She really can not get on with it so we need a landline style mobile.
There is a main contender but if you lift the receiver you still have to press a button.

Does anyone know if there is a phone where you can just answer a call like the good old days?

We’ve not found one. My wife’s a community OT and she’s not aware of one either.

Not found even the simplest old person mobile phone that my Mam can use any more for messaging, she’s deaf and I’m a long way away, so we used to email or text. She can’t even understand how the TV remote that she’s had for 20 years now, it apparently magic every time I use it. Sad times.

How about a 4G router, data sim and ethernet telephone?

Me and Ed actually have these in the office at Hebtroco.

https://www.wired.com/story/fisher-price-chatter-phone-bluetooth-rave/

As per gobuchul’s suggestion, something like https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grandstream-HT-812-2FXS-Gateway-Black/dp/B01M2ZJQAF along with a 4g router would allow you to use any analog phone over VOIP.

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Looks like https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-Telephony-Removable-Configuration-TL-MR6500v/dp/B08MFQB761 is a router + sip server integrated into one box.

Never used this so can’t vouch for it but expect it would be fine.

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Doro do very simplyfied phones…

https://www.doro.com/en-gb/products/mobile-phones/

+1 on Door, with big green answer button…

Doro 780X mobile phone

How about a basic clamshell phone? Will answer when opened.

I bought my dad a Doro which he uses daily – old style mobile. He’s 96.

Amazon Alexa so she can just say “Alexa call Zippykona” ?

We really need an old school phone as my mum holds the phone with the buttons away from her ears. Also when gripping she holds the volume button and turns it down.
Can someone explain setting up an old phone with a 4g router?
The phone that was on my list turned up and only has chinese for the phone book. Not helpful!

“ Amazon Alexa so she can just say “Alexa call Zippykona” ?”

Friends of mine have an Alexa, as does my tattooist, and I have to be very discreet and not make withering comments about just how shit those things are at responding to even the simplest request!
I don’t have any voice-activated system activated on any device I own, and it would require a huge improvement in their ability to respond to any request, plus my finding myself in a very unfortunate situation where I would have to rely on one.

Alexa would be good but she doesn’t have wifi.

Me and Ed actually have these in the office at Hebtroco.

https://www.wired.com/story/fisher-price-chatter-phone-bluetooth-rave/

I need one of these

Tried my mum with an Alexa and gave her instructions on how to answer it. She soon forgot that but because the device is on my account I can do a Drop In ,where I can just start talking to her.
Works perfectly if anyone else is in my situation.

I have been on the hunt for something similar to the OP and thought it might be useful to share the phone which we’ve ended up with.

Ticks all the boxes for us.

Looks like a landline but uses a SIM

Big buttons with speed dial

https://amzn.eu/d/3W0xrMm

That looks interesting. Do you just pick up the receiver to answer or do you have to press a button as well?

Yes it works as you would expect a standard landline to, lift the receiver to answer, put down to hang up. No need to press buttons.

To make a call you lift the receiver, dial the number (or press one of the speed dial buttons)

Default settings are obnoxiously loud and annoying ring tones, but easily changed

We’ve actually got one of these things spare that we bought for an elderly relative who died before getting it.