Jitterbug Flip2 Cell Phone for Seniors Gray

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If you’re noticing, there is a red button below the keypad. This button is a dedicated urgent response button. It is connected with a highly trained IAED-certified response agent. You can reach doctors or nurses while you’re in an emergency at ease. Jitterbug Flip2 Prices Like the Jitterbug Smart2, also by Greatcall, the Jitterbug Flip is a repurposed phone design with some minor aesthetic modifications and a more significant interface overhaul.

Lively Link: This is an app that keeps friends and family in the loop if your battery is running low or you call Urgent Response. The only limitations of this device are that it uses AT&T mobile phone services and therefore won’t work outside the USA or in locations that this provider doesn’t offer coverage. The camera’s extra feature is that the menu offers a magnifier mode, allowing the phone to be used to read small text or scan for a small dropped item. And, the flash can be used as a flashlight to see in the dark for short periods. Voice Assistant: With its built-in Alexa functionality, my Jitterbug Flip2 could make calls, write texts, and browse the web by solely using my voice. I have tried several approaches using simplified home screens and smart widgets, but in some cases, there is still too much resistance.Care Advocate: With the Care Advocate service, Jitterbug Smart4 users can be connected with what Lively calls “Care Advocates.” Personally, from my experience, I’d call them “senior care coaches.” These professionals will conduct an initial screening and help the user create a “Care Plan” encompassing health, financial planning, and personal care. The camera is surprisingly decent, considering it's only a 2-megapixel sensor. It takes clear, reasonably detailed pictures in well-lit environments, though in lower light settings images become muddy. Digital zoom is available in a separate Magnifier app, and allows for 5x zoom. However, inside this is Android and has all the sorts of features you might expect from a phone that first appeared in 2016. The Flip is actually based on the same hardware as the Alcatel Go Flip on Sprint and T-Mobile; we like Jitterbug's version better because we don't care for the Go Flip's software. The phone has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 210 processor under the hood, which is a basic, older smartphone chip. There isn't much you can do beyond making calls, sending texts, and taking pictures, and the Flip has more than enough power to perform all of these actions smoothly.

Here is an overview of Lively’s three phone plans. Regardless of which Jitterbug model you select, one of these plans will apply. Lively Phone Plans Comparison The Flip has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 210 processor under the hood, the same chipset you'll find in a smartphone like the Jitterbug Smart . There isn't much you can do beyond making calls, send texts, and taking pictures, and the Flip has more than enough power to perform all of these actions smoothly. At first glance, the two phones look nearly identical. Each has a large touch screen that occupies the front of the phone; however, the Jitterbug Smart4’s is slightly larger. Both phones have a screen resolution of 1520 x 720, so the size doesn’t impact the quality of what’s on it. Different from most other flip phones, the Jitterbug Flip2 has two setup cameras; front and rear cameras. The rear camera is placed on the external area above the secondary screen. It has an 8MP resolution. Below it, there is an additional LED flash to help users capture in low light. With this, you can expect to record a MPEG 4 video.Where this product diversifies from the cheap Chinese phone technology is the highly simplified user interface that Greatcall designed for it, and how this is used to access their support services in the event of a problem. Right now, the Flip makes calls using Verizon's old 3G CDMA system, but soon it will also support phone calls in HD quality over LTE bands 4 and 13. That will allow for nationwide coverage even after the CDMA shutdown in 2019. The combination of CDMA and LTE gives the Flip better Verizon coverage than the Kyocera Cadence LTE, at least for now. This is an interestingly different approach to a medical alert. This product is a “senior friendly” cell phone, but it has a button which lets you call the medical alert monitoring service (called 5 star) which is provided by the manufacturer (Lively — previously called GreatCall). GreatCall also offers a simplified smartphone, the Jitterbug Smart2. But while the Jitterbug Flip is a nearly perfect marriage of form and function, the Smart2 is sluggish and feels like it's biting off a bit more than it can chew. The Flip is the phone to get if you're looking for those GreatCall health services. While the Jitterbug Flip doesn’t require an eight-core CPU or the internals of an iPhone 11, it could be dramatically improved with better hardware than the existing platform offers.

Senior care aspects are arguably among its biggest attractions, but what can you expect? The following are typical of what’s currently available in terms of health and safety, but you may not find them all from a single service. LTE becomes the Jitterbug Flip2’s main network. It is a default network that offers stable and fast connections. The other connectivity available on this phone is Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.1, and A-GPS. A review of a Jitterbug phone wouldn't be complete without a mention of its services. The main one I've already touched on is 5Star Urgent Response, which connects you to a 24/7 operator who can identify your location and request help from emergency services. That's included for free with the phone. These don’t recall a landline connected base station to work, as they each have mobile phone electronics that connect via the AT&T network.

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LifeStation offers both home alert solutions and those designed for more active seniors who like to enjoy the outdoors or travelling.