I just want someone other than Unihertz to be making phones with keyboards again.
I love my titan and titan slim, but good gravy…
I think it’s like 3D movies. You will make some money off the people who buy into the gimmick, some more off of the people who remember and want the Razr again, and the rest acts as a kind of “hey we’re innovating here!” commercial for the manufacturer.
It’s a dumb gimmick, but it seems like capitalism is almost exclusively dumb gimmicks at this point.
There is at least a decent advantage in the flip phones of having the screen protected when the phone isn’t in use. I could see them potentially becoming more popular over time if they are improved upon and become cheaper, if only for that reason.
In my opinion modern screens are scratch resistant enough to put in the pocket without many problems and if you need more resistance you can get a screen protecting foil or a case. If my non foldable phone would scratch too much in my pockets I wouldn’t really think about replacing it with a device that is twice as expensive and has an additional hinge that could fail.
I’ve always been enamored with flip phones because they’re the closest thing we have to a Star Trek communicator, but the current gen of foldable screens are a nightmare.
My very last flip phone was the Star Trek. I still miss how satisfying it was to hang up by flipping it closed.
Oh neat! Yeah I agree.
When my Pixel 4a was on its way out, I was seriously tempted to get a Galaxy Flip4 because there’s someone who made a case turning it into a tricorder.
These flippable phones don’t have dust protection like a normal phone have. Nope, I wanna go to the beach and not worry about broken phones. Having a hinge just add another point of failure. These are more like a rich person’s toy.
Flip phones < Candybars
