No monthly feefree US shipping · any carrier · set up before it ships
Simple phone for older adults
A phone you can’t be scammed on.
The ElderBerry Phone is a simple smartphone for older adults, built so the calls and messages that take people’s money don’t get through. The protection is already switched on when it arrives. No monthly fee from us, and it works on any US carrier.
The home screen. Eight apps, Settings below. That’s the lot.
What’s on it
Everything they 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 an easier one to live with.
Tap any app to turn it over.
Why the ElderBerry Phone exists
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 filtering 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. 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.
Who made this
It started with two grandparents.
My name is Emmett Beadnall. I built this for my grandparents. I wanted them to have a phone that was properly theirs: a real camera and the photographs to go with it, messages from the family, maps when they need them — and nothing else pulling at their attention.
I wanted to stay close to them, but the technology made it difficult — for me and for my parents both. They’re the people who backed me in tech: from my first small coding robot to building my own computer, they were always there to cheer me on. It’s hard when people you love become disconnected from you.
It’s nine apps, and scam protection already switched on the day it arrives. My email is at the bottom of every page here — if something’s wrong, or you want to ask before you decide, it reaches us. When I’m not building it, you’ll find me out on the water sailing, on a run, or making Mickey Mouse pancakes with my sister.
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.
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Try again in an hour, or email support@elderberryphone.com and we’ll add you by hand today.
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Thank you — we’ve got your details safely.
You’ll hear from us once: one email on the day the ElderBerry Phone is available to buy. Nothing before that, and nothing after unless you ask for it.
Nothing was ordered and nothing was charged. If you’d like your details removed, write to support@elderberryphone.com and they’re gone.