Posted on 03/09/2010 9:39:34 PM PST by An American in Turkiye
Any freepers have a jitterbug cell phone? Looking for some honest reviews about contract-free cell phones.
The Jitterbug phone is a good basic phone. The plans that go along with the phone are bad, unless you never talk.
..use the Net 10 service myself and am happy with it. It won’t work in Turkey though.. :)
My no-contract phone is from Virgin Mobile. I think it’s 18 or 20 cents a minute for outgoing calls. $20 plus tax buys three months of access. The phone is for emergencies and convenience, not for long conversations. So far, so good.
My mom has one, but I don’t know anything about her plan.
I have a go phone that I purchased through Costco. I pay $100 for 1000 minutes. I have a time limit of one year to use those 1000 minutes. I think that I get a 100 extra minutes when I purchase the 1000 minutes. So if you use around those 1000 minutes in about 10 months time that works out to $10 or less a month. The phone cost me about $60, but that was about 5 years ago, so I don’t know the current price.
These are no frill phones. The have text messaging as well as phone messages, but they don’t take pictures or receive pictures.
I haven't tried Jitterbug because from the look of the map I won't get much in the way of service (Pretty sparse coverage in these parts).
‘Bout two years ago I thought I wanted a jitterbug, the hubby researched it and after he gave me the facts—that want went *POOF*.
I no longer recall all that he found that turned me against the idea...it was pretty good, as I had been pretty set on a jitterbug.
Its great if you are unable to figure out complex tasks and electronic devices. And you don’t even need your reading glasses to see the big friendly buttons!
This cell phone is specifically designed for elderly people with poor vision and poor hearing. Big keypad with big, illuminated numerals. Pad around the ear area to enhance audibility. Very simple phone, no extras, which tend to confuse older people, who would not use them anyway.
I’d looked at it for my 77 year old mother, who had no cell phone and I’d begun to worry about her having car trouble or something and needing one for emergencies. The benefits of the age cohort-specific design were overridden by the disadvantages of the plan that came along with it. So, I just looked for a basic, easy to use phone with big numbers through Verizon and added a line for $9.99 to my plan.
This is what I use. Boost Mobile Unlimited. You get unlimited minutes, text,free nationwide long distance, no roaming.I pay $50.00 a month. No contracts.Very happy.
free walkie talkie if you pick an iden phone.
Boost has several other plans, but they are not as good as the unlimited one.
http://plans.boostmobile.com/monthlyunlimited.aspx
Or have more important things to do.
Buy one from their web site without a contract and take it to your service provider of choice. They will unlock it if need be and get a basic service of unlimited talk per month. The design is easy to hold for old folks or disabled and as a few here state the numbers are big, it’s a simple phone and very easy to use for elderly folks. Got one for my Mom after she kept dropping her new high speed mini extra small phone with so much crap on it she was scared of it.
Jitterbugs are a must for old age per my observation.
Samsung has a like product with simple large numbers at Verizon.
The figure 8 shape of the Jitterbug when open makes it real easy for old or young to hold.
No problems for the Jitterbug Phone she has had for almost a year now...
Good luck....
My 92 year old Father loved it his last year before going home. Easy to read and simple to use. But customer service gets thumbs down for cancellation and billing. For 3 months after his death, they kept trying to claim my Father was still making phone calls.
As bad as the CS was, my Father really enjoyed the product and was able to stay in touch with his family. No other phone on the market at the time was designed as well for seniors. I tried several before getting him the jitterbug.
My mom has the samsung verizon phone you are talking about, she loves it, and when I tried it, I was impressed too. I don’t have verizon and have been looking to find a way to get that phone without verizon.
It’s big, comfy, and easy. I really don’t like these phones with all these gadgets, I just want to talk and do it as easily and cheaply as possible.
The wife and I have had Jitterbugs for about a year now. We are quite happy with them. The plan we have allows us a certain number of minutes a month, and unused minutes roll over. Calls between the two of us, which are probably our biggest use, do not use any minutes. So we actually have a huge surplus of minutes.
We both just wanted a simple phone, and nothing else. We are both 57 years old,and we both like the big buttons on the Bug.
Although my wife is not very technical, I am retired from a career as an electronic technician, have worked on everything electronic except radar, and am a ham radio operator. I am not intimidated by technology!
I love my Bug!
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