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Simple, easy-to-use phone for older adults

A phone you can’t be scammed on.

A simple, easy-to-use smartphone for older adults, built so the calls and messages that take people’s money don’t get through. Accessibility friendly, with the scam protection already on when it arrives. No monthly fee, any US carrier.

The home screen. Eight apps, Settings below. That’s the lot.

What’s on it

Everything you actually use, on one screen.

A real camera and the photographs to go with it. Messages from the family, with pictures. Maps home. Weather, notes and a clock. It is a proper smartphone — just a simplified one: simple, intuitive, and easier to live with.

Tap any app to turn it over.

Why the ElderBerry Phone exists

$7.7BLost to fraud by Americans 60+ in 2025Up 37% in a year
201,000+Reported victims aged 60 and overMost fraud goes unreported
$38,500Average loss, per victim12,400 lost over $100,000 each
41%Of large imposter scams that began with a callLosses over $10,000

Source: FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center, 2025 Annual Report.

The detail

The rest, folded up

Open what matters to you. It’s here in full — just not in your way.

How the scam call blocking works

Anyone in their contacts rings, buzzes and shows up exactly as you’d expect. A number that isn’t in their contacts doesn’t ring and doesn’t notify — but it still appears in Recents, labelled, so a pharmacy or a doctor’s office calling back is never lost. Withheld numbers get the same treatment, and the free scam blocking your carrier already offers is switched on during setup.

When something does get through, an unknown call carries a calm banner reading Not in your contacts — this could be a scam, with an oversized decline button. A link in a message from someone they don’t know opens a full-screen warning before the page does. One-time passcodes and verification texts are recognised and always delivered normally, so banking and pharmacy logins keep working.

All of it is configured before the phone is boxed — the one thing most senior phones leave to whoever sets it up. There is no settings screen to find and no switch left unflipped.

Setting it up, and which carriers work

It arrives with the software installed and the protection already switched on. Put in a SIM from any US carrier and their contacts sync. There is no account to create, no password to invent and no setup wizard.

The phone is unlocked and we sell no service. Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile all work, as do Mint Mobile, Consumer Cellular, Visible, Tracfone and Google Fi. Keeping an existing number is the ordinary transfer your carrier already handles.

What’s in the box

The phone, set up and ready. A USB-C charging cable. A getting-started guide in plain English and large type, written for the person using the phone rather than the person buying it.

What joining the waitlist means

It is a list, not an order. No payment is taken, no card details are collected, and there is no queue position. Your email is used for one thing: telling you when the phone is available to buy. Your address tells us which part of the country the first run should go to.

Nothing is sold or shared, and you can ask us to delete your details at any time.

Questions before you join the list? Email goes to a real person, not a ticket queue. We reply within two working days.
[email protected]

Who made this

It started with my grandparents.

Hi! My name is Emmett Beadnall. And I built this phone for my grandparents. As a kid, complex technology made it hard for me and my parents to connect with them. Always unable to pick up the phone due to a complicated interface, yet when they did pick up, it was often a scam call asking them for money and very frustrating to tell.

So this is why I started ElderBerry Phone. To solve those problems my grandparents face. Our mission is to connect families and friends through easy-to-use, distraction-free, scam-protected technology.

Our email is at the bottom of every page here — if there’s a question you have or simply want to say hi, it reaches us. You’ll find me out on the water sailing or making Mickey Mouse pancakes with my sister.

Emmett BeadnallFounder, ElderBerry Phone
Emmett Beadnall, founder of ElderBerry Phone.

Waitlist

Be first to know when it ships

The ElderBerry Phone launches in late 2026. There is nothing to buy or reserve. Join the waitlist and you’ll hear the moment it’s available to order — before anyone else.

  • There is nothing to buy yet — this is a list, not an order
  • No card, no deposit, no obligation
  • One email when it’s ready — that’s it
  • Where you are decides where we ship first
  • Unsubscribe any time

We ask for a full address because the first production run is small and we have to decide where it goes. Nothing is sold, nothing is shared, and you can ask us to delete your details at any time.

This is where the one email goes.

Nothing is being ordered and nothing is charged. Your email is used for one thing: telling you when the phone is available. Your address is used to work out where to ship first and for nothing else — no newsletter, no sharing, no selling, ever. Prefer email? Write to us directly.