forum thread Posted by Dr.W • 17h ago
Jun 18, 2025 5:00 AM
Item 1 of 2
Item 1 of 2
forum thread Posted by Dr.W • 17h ago
Jun 18, 2025 5:00 AM
Motorola Edge 2024 (Unlocked): 256GB, Midnight Blue $249.99
$250
$550
54% offBest Buy
Get Deal at Best BuyGood Deal
Bad Deal
Save
Share
16 Comments
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
The camera on this isn't great but it would suit the needs of an elderly person.
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
But seniors need iphones, Android is usually too complex for them.
Good review thanks. Yay, 23U team!
I'll counter with seniors usually need what they are familiar with or what their tech go-to has nearby. I've found it very helpful to add a basic launcher to Android and use it's customizations to really simplify a phone for my MiL, but maybe that's more work than some folks want to commit to. I have an older backup iPhone to help my father (who has an iPhone with work and then often runs into issues with it). Also, often apple users want to share something and are totally unaware of the walled garden they are in and it becomes frustrating for both sides. (I don't mean to make this an OS debate).
But seniors need iphones, Android is usually too complex for them.
If anything, Apple has a lot of nags like automatic iCloud backups that end up taking up all your "free" 5GB iCloud storage that only exists to give you a full storage warning. My mom is only in her 50s and still signs up for iCloud every couple months because she gets warnings about full iCloud storage on her iPhone even though we tell her to just turn off iCloud (she only has a single Apple device which is her phone).
A lot of the way Apple designs things only work the Apple way also with no workarounds. It can actually make iOS kind of complicated and frustrating for seniors because sometimes you really want to set something one way to make it easy, but the option to customize isn't even there.
Fully unlocked on Day 60. Using Verizon MVNO for 5G data.
All features meet/exceed my needs/expectations.
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.