Despite GreatCall's custom user interface, the lock screen behaves more or less like every other Android phone out there. A single press of the screen lock button wakes the display and shows the ...

The Lively app by GreatCall gives older adults easy, one-touch access to 5Star Urgent Response service via Bluetooth to their smartphone when used with the Lively Wearable2 – an easy-to-wear, durable ...

GreatCall had a partnership with Best Buy’s Geek Squad to install its Lively Home sensors before the $800 million buyout in August. For Best Buy, ...

Senior friendly feature phone maker GreatCall Wireless announced the availability of its first smartphone, the Jitterbug Touch, on Wednesday. Based off of Sprint's Kyocera Milano, this below entry ...

GreatCall was founded in 2006 by Arlene Harris, a telecommunications entrepreneur and inventor who partnered with Samsung to develop a senior-friendly phone that GreatCall now markets as Jitterbug.

San Diego’s GreatCall has spent more than a decade deciphering how to deliver technology to seniors in a way that they’ll actually use it.Now with the backing of a new investor, the maker of ...

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 ...

GreatCall Inc., the leader in connected health for active aging, has acquired Healthsense, the leading provider of passive remote monitoring services for the senior care continuum. The acquisition ...

GreatCall’s most basic plan that includes calls and the 5Star service runs $25, with 50 minutes of talk. Voicemail ($3 per month) and text (300 texts for $3 per month) are extra.

GreatCall says it has close to 1 million subscribers and $300 million in annual sales. The deal, expected to clear in the next few months, will be the largest in Best Buy’s 52-year-history.

The GreatCall/Lyft concept is similar to a hotline developed by Mountain View startup GoGoGrandparent that provides a toll-free hotline to seniors to call to request an Uber ride. But while ...

GreatCall was smart to pick a 3,000mAh battery for the Smart2. I could not kill it entirely. It lasts and lasts and lasts and lasts, which is exactly what it should do.