Jitterbug Phone Reviews – A Short History of the Company
The parent company of Jitterbug Wireless, GreatCall, was founded in 2006 by Marty Cooper and his wife Arlene Harris. In the 1970s, Cooper spearheaded Motorola’s effort to create a mobile, hand-held phone, which gave him the reputation of being “The Inventor of the Mobile Phone.” During that first call in 1973, Cooper was alleged to have said, “Remember when you said I could never rip off the front part of my microwave and use it as a phone? Well, guess what I’m talking to you on now!”
Cooper has since developed phones, such as the Jitterbug, in reaction to what he saw as the over-complicating of the cellular market with smartphones like iPhones and Blackberrys. Furthermore, Cooper (who is now 81) wanted to design a phone that included the following built-in health services for its users:
-Live Nurse: If they have any immediate health concerns, Jitterbug customers can speak to an actual nurse at any time.
-Wellness Calls: These are 5-minute, personal tips regarding health and relaxation.
-Heart Healthy Tips: Similarly, the customer can opt for tips regarding optimal nutrition and exercise for the aging heart.
Cooper was recently interviewed on CNN talking about one of his other projects, ArrayComm, which is a company working to improve cellular networks and various other forms of mobile communication. In the article, it is discussed that the original mobile phone was actually pitted against AT&T’s car phone at the time. When asked why Motorola decided to go up against this other piece of technology, he said:
For 100 years, people wanting to talk on the phone have been constrained by being tied to their desks or their homes with a wire, and now we’re going to trap them in their cars? That’s not good.
And the world hasn’t been the same since. You can visit the Jitterbug site here.
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