Get the Tracfone LG Classic Flip, here on QVC. E234310. It comes with a year of 1200 minutes, which is a great price as just the 1200 minutes for one year are $100, without the phone. After 1200 minutes are used or 1 year is up, whichever comes first, you can buy a $19.99/ 90 day airtime which will give you 180 minutes on this phone for 90 days as it is a triple minutes phone.That averages about $6.67 cents per month.
I purchased 2 for my 80 year old parents. They are LG, but just because LG is not making phones anymore, it does not matter because Tracfone still provides the service to the phone, so no,worries there.
And yes, they are triple minutes phones, so you can purchase the basic airtime cards instead of the smartphone cards and triple the minutes on the cards.
It is a good phone, with an emergency SOS key, and other great features AND the same phone on HSN is $62.09 and free shipping, here on QVC $69.20 and $5.50 shipping, so HSN saves you $12.50 per phone. Item 728-433 on HSN. AND it's 4G so it will not be obsolete for a while.