We explored mobile phone adoption by older South African adults in an attempt to better understand this user group’s attitude towards the technology. Mobile phones can vastly improve the quality of life for the elderly, but only if these users perceive and experience the phones as useful and usable. Most participants in our sample have not reached full adoption but have not rejected the technology either. We found that many older mobile phone users display an attitude of rejection of the technology despite the fact that they continue to use the phone.