emporiaSMART.5, Senior mobile phone 4G VoLTE, No-contract senior smartphone, Mobile phone with emergency call button, 5.5-inch display, Android 10, 13 MP camera, Black

Product Information

We previously featured their SMART.3mini in our guide to the best smartphones for the elderly, and we've been able to go hands-on with the S5 to find out if it lives up to expectation as a smart device for older people. How does the emporiaSMART.5 work? Soak in all the photo-taking glory with the Emporia Smart.5’s triple rear camera. This set-up consists of a 13MP main lens, a 2MP secondary lens and an additional 2MP third lens. Worried about the lighting of your photos being poor? Don't worry this handset also has an LED Flash to give you that much-needed brightness and detail! A QR Scan app is built-in to the S5, something that is more important than ever thanks to the coronavirus pandemic and the widespread use of QR codes. iPhones are slightly better, offering a consistently solid experience across the board, but even the cheapest new phone from Apple’s stable costs much more than an entry-level iPhone. And if you opt for an older device, you’ll have to contend with a shorter life span in terms of software and hardware support. Users can look forward to a 5.5-inch display paired with a 720 x 1440 resolution. Not only is this display very easy to use thanks to simplified menus and large icons, but it also comes with an Emporia SmartCover. This cover is great at protecting your phone from any potential damage but also allows users to perform actions like operating the camera, turning on the torch and taking calls with the cover closed! In the world of Emporia, a case shouldn't stop you from enjoying and interacting with your device.

It'd be easy for Emporia to skimp on the quality of the camera on a simple smartphone, but they haven't done that. In fact, the quality is impressive and video calling on a strong wi-fi connection yielded a perfect picture. Emporia has also kept the emergency assistance button that I feel really makes this phone ideal for the senior market. It’s that safety blanket when you can’t be with that older family member all the time it’s so useful. This is an area where the Emporia SMART.5 performs extremely well. It makes no assumptions about the competence of its users. When I was handed the Emporia Smart.5 to review the camera on, I wasn’t expecting much as this phone is geared to the “older” generation so I wasn’t expecting much from the camera on this handset… WOW, was I surprised with this 13 + 2+2 Megapixel triple-lens camera and 8mp front-facing lens.The maximum screen size compatible with the accessory is 5.5 inches, ensuring that it can accommodate a range of smartphone models. It is specifically designed for compatibility with the Emporia Smart5 smartphone. We even dig into the nitty-gritty, to gauge how useful the instruction manual is, and how well the applications on the phone work to see whether the phone is fiddly to use once it's set up. So when they got the SMART.5 to try, they were both impressed with the battery life you get a replaceable 3.550mAh which is an improvement on the SMART.4 that comes with 2500 mAh so you now have 1000 mAh more with the SMART.5 that now will give you a full day and half of the regular use or up to 4 days of minimal use. Please make sure the first charge is 4 hours otherwise the battery life will be reduced.

Ultimately, despite our tester having experience of setting smartphones up, he felt most people would want someone with them who knew what they were doing and, crucially, could manage the delicate task of taking the cover off and fitting the SIM. This phone is powered by a fast 1.8GHz octa-core processor which is paired with 3GB RAM and 32GB of storage but if you need more storage it allows for a micro SD card up to 256GB. This also means that many of the worries suffered by seniors are taken away. The windows are responsive to fingers only, so no more accidental rings or mistakes during calls.Zooming can be undertaken by pinching the screen as smartphone users normally would, but there are also +/- signs on the right side of the screen to help zoom in and out. At Metrofone we partner exclusively with EE, who is the UK’s leading mobile communications network. By giving our customers a fantastic deal with EE, we can be sure that they always have the best service and network connection no matter where they are. With free roaming, you can connect to anyone and everywhere, even when you’re on the other side of the world.

This phone is designed to use a Nano SIM. Simply insert the Nano SIM provided by your mobile service provider and you should be ready to go. Which Networks Will This Phone Work With? Its unique selling point rests in its user-friendliness, though, and it definitely delivers on that. Android phones are hit-and-miss at the best of times, and the dated Helio P22 chip means it will likely miss out on future version releases. But those concerns are alleviated by the low price, which undercuts Apple’s cheapest model, the iPhone SE 2020 by a wide margin. When the case is closed, users can still see the wallpaper image, time, date, battery icon and network information through the window in the case. As a man who struggles to grip things sometimes thanks to a health condition, getting the rear cover off was a bit of a mission. There is a decent groove on the cover to allow a fingernail to be inserted, but it does feel as though you're pulling the phone apart. If someone wasn't sure about setting up a device, they might not have the confidence (or the dexterity) to do that.The legacy of simple mobile phones has long been dominated by the big players, Doro and Nokia. But Emporia is taking aim at the UK market, with 4G simple phones that focus on being easy to use. Our trained ergonomic assessors test everything from how easy the phone is to set up to how well-spaced the keys are on the phone to make sure you're not getting a phone with a cramped keyboard that's hard to type on. Automatically put your phone in loudspeaker mode (an alarm will sound to alert anyone nearby to assist)