Lively Jitterbug Flip2 - Flip Cell Phone for Seniors - Not Compatible with Other Wireless Carriers - Must Be Activated with Lively Phone Plan - Red Flip Phone

I am 89 and not good with technology. My son set this simple cell phone up for me and it is perfect for my needs. I can easily carry this flip phone everywhere with me and I am never out of communication with other people. And it is small.

Great little phone. Mom needed something simple and easy to use. We found it in the Litter bug. Friendly and kind customer service as well.

The phone is nice, very well made. The issue I have is with the phone company after activation, and being billed a month in advance for service.

Good but not Great. The user interface tries to do too many things: take pictures, videos, do text messages, check voice mail, check missed calls . . . Seniors need a phone that does one thing GREAT (make phone calls) and move everything else to the back burner, still available, but buried away in the menus for savy Seniors who feel like exploring bonus features. There are so many things they could have done to make phone calling easier. This is actually better than other flip phones, but not as much as hoped for. I'd suggest they make the call menu top priority for the phone, scroll down and have the contact names right there, then press okay and it immediately calls that contact. To do anything else should require navigating through the MENU which could be at the top, right above all the contact names. Easy, problem solved, and many more aging seniors would be able to use it.----EDIT---- My mother is constantly accidentally turning the volume down (pressing the buttons on the side) and then saying things like "I can't hear you I can't hear you I can't hear you" and has difficulty figuring out she needs to turn the volume back up. subtracting another star. surprisingly difficult for her to use this phone---REEDIT -- this is an AWFUL PHONE, Mom and I can't figure out how to adjust the ringer volumn up, I tried to talk to her on another phone telling her which button to press, the volumn button on the side that the manual clearly specifies, didn't work, she actually got it to drop down to silent. 0 stars now, if can't figure it out will have to cancel---Re-REedit 3rd time -- Mom still can't figure out how to adjust the ringer volume. It arbitrarily gets set to Ringer-OFF (I suspect from hitting the side buttons by accident) then the phone does't ring and she doesn't answer it, and when she tries to adjust the volumn while I'm on the phone with her, when I tell her how, she adjusts the Conversation-Volume. The folks at Jitterbug need to get a phone design that's not prone to senior citizens accidently pressing the ringer volume to OFF. It's more than a head-ache, it causes her to NOT HEAR THE PHONE RING. sure, young folks can figure out what's going on, and try not to do it again, but elderly seniors don't learn from past mistakes and cant figure things out easily. I have to give this phone an F rating, bad design of ringer volume and conversation volume on the side, too easy to accidentally press. okay for seniors with sharp minds, and elderly . . . but folks, this is a "jitterbug" F

No service so not sure how it worked. Fast refund on return though!

Probably fine for seniors who have limited skills with devices but here are my issues. Battery life is trash and the user interface does not default to top of main menu when phone is closed and opened later. Additionally, there does not appear to be a way to receive alerts for text messages besides the phone vibrating, and connecting to Bluetooth devices is an ordeal. Also I recommend avoiding the Lively service as their call quality leaves much to be desired.

He's happy to have a flip phone again because it's much easier for him to operate

Great option of a simple and lite cell phone