jitterbug is only a cell phone. go here.

it is being marketed to us "boomers" and "olders" who only want a cell phone, not with all the other stuff. and it has really BIG numbers on the display!

just check the coverage.

and can someone explain why we seem to be forcing a marginal instrument - the cell phone, which many times seems to me to be no more better than two tin cans with a string between them - to be a survival instrument?

like the man says above, if you want the opportunity to be in touch - get a sat phone. otherwise, how about not getting yourself in a jam to begin with? or self-rescuing?

we rely too much on marginal stuff, built by others. i'd prefer to rely on myself, also built by others! but designed by me.