Sooo...flip phones are making a comeback?

Lol....it's been all over the news today.... flip phones may be making a comeback. Well, it made me think that maybe that's not a bad thing. The ability to simply send and receive calls may actually be a good thing....and I, for one would welcome it....HOWEVER -

Let's talk specs.....aside from the basic operations, I would want the ability to tether the phone at LTE speeds, so that I could have a tablet, phablet, or other smartphone for all my apps...that way, I could have the great battery life of a basic phone, and the social and email apps that I need for everyday use.

Who knows....the old Pearl may gain some traction...lol.

Thoughts?

Chinese phones manufacturers are already making flip phones with galaxy s4 specs

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The first smart flip phone...Attachment 318317
Followed by this one
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Loved my motorola flip but it was mono screen lol, would be kinda neat to have today's specs including a bigger screen on a 2015 star tac

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Im actually thinking about going back to my pearl flip...briefly

Lol. A brief comeback. Probably. But yeah I can see some folks getting tired of the expense of a smartphone. The battery worries. The fragility off the screens.

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I saw an article that talked about how a lot of celebrities are going back to flips for security reasons. Not sure why BlackBerry isn't all over that. Missing a real opportunity.

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Yeah so are wood stoves... just saying. this is more a sensational story for the sake of being different. No one is going back to a flip phone. The people who already are there may keep it longer but that would have been true anyway.

I think it's the "non-smart" phone that is making a comeback for security reasons, not so much the flip form factor.

Originally Posted by deremi

Yeah so are wood stoves... just saying. this is more a sensational story for the sake of being different. No one is going back to a flip phone. The people who already are there may keep it longer but that would have been true anyway.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/flip-pho...fashion-icons/

http://www.networkworld.com/article/...ip-phones.html

http://sandrarose.com/2014/12/celebr...block-hackers/

We bought a simple prepaid flip phone for the house, for when we go out and leave our kids at home (for the record they are in their teens).

I have to say that sometimes I pick it up and long for the "good old days" When a phone was just a phone and not a tether to work. But honestly, when I think of all the devices my smartphone has replaced (GPS, camera, notebook/address book/calendar, just to name a few) that I no longer have to carry around, I really doubt I could ever go back to just a simple flipphone.

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I really love flip phone' its just its band is so smooth if its attaching band is destroyed the flip part of phone is no more of work.

You Feature Phones of the 90s and early 2000s. Yeah, kinda miss my Motorola V-Tec... haha

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BlackBerry style

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CBS news article...calls them more obsolete than a BlackBerry. That's where they put BB in the US, just ahead of flip phones?

Originally Posted by Salsberry

CBS news article...calls them more obsolete than a BlackBerry. That's where they put BB in the US, just ahead of flip phones?

One dopey news opinion piece doesn't not a national opinion make.

I'd like to reactivate my Pearl Flip but Verizon is shutting down 3G

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Flip phones coming back? Now I can answer my calls in a stylish and flashy manner!

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