Doro 8030 4G UK SIM-Free Smartphone – Black

Product Information

Doro’s Simplified interface starts right from the bootup, asking you about font scaling and a bit of DPI scaling, but in the most user-friendly way possible it puts a message on-screen and says is it big enough? With 2 buttons, one saying it’s fine, the other saying a little bigger. Things like this made her feel much more in control, but also, more attached to it, because she’s able to do more on it, she feels more attached to it. This kind of hand-holding makes some of the hidden parts of the Android UI, far easier to grasp. As an advanced user, I just forget that some things are harder for people to do and some things aren’t natural user interfaces. Long presses and double taps are two of the worst UX paradigms in existence, but they are implemented almost everywhere, So Doro has tried to eliminate them wherever they can, And in my nan’s view, it has worked. She found she “played around with it all a little more” and that she felt comfortable playing around with it. There was more I could write on the Doro 8030 and this could easily be double or even triple length If I wanted to go full in depth on every nook and cranny, but here is the conclusion for this review. Would I as a 21 year old male buy this phone? No, but I’m not the target audience, neither is my older sister, but my grandmother, she is the target audience for this phone, and I practically had to pry it from her hands to take photos for this review. Do not keep the unit in warm places. High temperatures can reduce the lifespan for electronic equipment, damage batteries and distort or melt certain plastics. Looking at the cross-platform Geekbench 4 benchmark results, the Doro 8030 sits at the bottom of the table, and the numbers reflect the real-world speed and multitasking capabilities of the phone – it’s sluggish and incapable of handling multiple apps at once.

You can enter text, numbers and other characters using the on-screen keyboard. Select a text field to open the on-screen keyboard. You can adjust your on-screen keyboard in various ways to improve readability. Activate keyboardcalling support for UK operators Vodafone, EE, Three, Sky Mobile and iD Mobile and French operators Orange, SFR and Bouygues.

The Doro 8050 runs Android 9 with a heavily modified interface. The most important aspect of this is Eva, which is Doro’s own software overlay that groups together the most commonly used functions under a selection of action-based icons; Call, View, Send, Add, Search, Help and Set.

Connectivity

Updated versions of Doro's Response app, Whatsapp and Facebook. Support for EU-Alert. Support for Advanced Mobile Location (AML) for UK, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark. IMS support for MVNOs Halebop (Sweden) and Vimla (Sweden). Corrections in French texts. Doro 3500 (alarm button) fully supported. Do not place objects, including fixed or portable radio equipment in the area above the airbag or the area where it might expand. Serious injuries may be caused if the mobile phone equipment is incorrectly installed and the airbag fills with air.