I've been seeing these commercials for Jitterbug Cellphones lately. No muss no fuss. Its a cellphone for older people with BIG ASS buttons and friendly people who help you make calls and save phone numbers. At first I thought, "How insulting." but on second thought after dealing with my Mother and the ridiculousness of her text messaging this week I'm all for it. I don't think Jitterbugs allow Jittertexts which is cool cool cool. A few months ago my family's cell phone plan was up for new phone upgrades and my Mom got a fab new phone which she still does not know how to use. For the past few months whenever she wants to take a picture with her phone, one of us needs to be with her to assist. Not to mention when she wants to look at her text messages or dial on the phone she has to put on her reading glasses. My Mother is a former model so that just looks odd. Nevertheless we were willing to let all of this slide until the other day. My Mother got a text message with some pop culture abbreviations and left several distressed messages on both me and my sister's phones because she couldn't decipher the message. We resolved the emergency but my sister jokingly told my mother she should go to Verizon's site and look at the abbreviation chart they have there. Little did we know she would take Andrea seriously. Low and behold I stopped and my Mother's house for a visit and what was prominently displayed on her dresser? A printout of every conceivable text message abbreviation complete with yellow highlights on the ones she thought were cutests. The kicker came later that day when we were out shopping and she wanted to send a text message. She stopped in the middle of the mall to pull out her abbreviation sheet along with her reading glasses and proceeded to block mall traffic for thirty minutes while she pecked out:
I'll c u 2mrrw...
Sigh.....
I must disagree with the first reviewer, sound like he got a few $$$ from Jitterbug to post on the blog!! :) My father, now 70 and an engineer, had the Jitterbug phone and it was a complete disaster. The customer service was horrible, the plan was expensive (he actually used the phone - Jitterbug plan is great if you speak very very little), and phone looked like a toy. I don't like to bash companies but he tells me that a few of his friends had similar problems. To boot, turns out the company is venture backed, he didn't was to sign up and then have the company 'turn out' the lights. The big phone co's have their share of problems but Jitterbug has a long way to go if it doesn't run out of $$.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the second reviewer....Jitterbug is having lots of problems. I bought the phone for my mother as a gift, two weeks later she asked me to return it. She felt terrible but said the service was terrible and she just wanted a normal phone. No need reminding mom that she's getting old....I mean older!! ;)
ReplyDeleteI disagree with reviewers 10 and 15.
ReplyDeleteI spent the money Jitterbug gave me on a pack of gum..and I still had to add .50 to buy it.
ReplyDeleteThat is hilarious. Too cute. Too funny.
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