GreatCall recently announced the Jitterbug Smart2, a new version of its smartphone for seniors. The phone is based on Android, but GreatCall has completely overwritten the user interface with its own ...

San Diego’s GreatCall, which provides mobile phone service tailored to the elderly, has teamed up with ride sharing outfit Lyft to let seniors schedule transportation without needing a smartphone or ...

GreatCall, Inc. is a leader in empowering active seniors by teaming them up with technology that they can actually use. Older consumers still want their independence and to use a smartphone, but they ...

GreatCall, the mobile technology developer best known for its Jitterbug phones for seniors, has acquired Lively, a startup maker of a home health monitoring platform for the same demographic. Terms ...

Smartphone is a misnomer. What we’re all carrying around in our pockets are computers—small, complex computers, with so much capability, making calls is just a minor detail. But the truth is some ...

Latest Handset Offers Smart New Feature Set, Award-Winning Simple Design, and Absence of Feature Overload San Diego, Calif. – July 2, 2012 – GreatCall, Inc., a leader in wireless services that enables ...

When it comes to the aging in place sector within digital health, there's other companies and then there's GreatCall. From its mid-2000s roots as a "smartphones for seniors" company, GreatCall has ...

San Diego’s GreatCall, which provides mobile phone and connected health services to seniors, is being sold to Best Buy for $800 million in cash – the second time that GreatCall has changed ownership ...

GreatCall recently announced the Samsung Touch3, an Android smartphone designed specifically for senior citizens and older users. The Touch3's major selling point is the user interface, which has been ...

GreatCall, a San Diego company that developed connected health and safety devices to help seniors age in place, has been snapped up by private equity firm GTCR. Although the transaction amount was not ...

NEW YORK—More and more older adults own smartphones than ever before, but adoption rates for seniors still trail the overall population. That's a business opportunity for a handful of small cellular ...

Owning a smartphone can be expensive, especially once you include texting, data and mobile hotspot connections. However, many communication companies have a variety of options and prices to ...