I'm All Aboard The Flip Phone Resurgence

Mashable - Unless you’ve been living under a rock, it’s pretty clear the flip phone has been replaced by large slabs of touchscreen glass. But LG isn’t willing to let go just yet. The company announced the Gentle, a flip phone that runs the latest Android 5.1 Lollipop, on Monday. Smartphones have largely replaced flip phones because they are better computing devices with big touchscreens that are easier to use, have better cameras, connect to the full Internet and feature lots of apps. But smartphones have become so large that they don’t fit in your pocket anymore, and are thus difficult to use with one hand. The Gentle is a compromise of sorts, and isn’t a terrible idea. It has the pocketable size of a traditional flip phone and the necessities only a smartphone OS can provide. It sounds like a useful device for kids and seniors, who both need the tactility of physical keypads and durability of a clamshell design that protects the screen. The Gentle will be available in Korea for 20 million won (about $171). Unless it sales numbers are off the charts, there’s almost no chance it will make it to territories outside of Asia (flip phone sales actually increased in places like Japan for the first time in seven years).

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God dammit I’ve been waiting for this for forever. I’ve always wondered why they don’t still make flip phones. Flip phones are so practical, make so much sense, as opposed to having an iPhone where I drop it on a pebble and the screen shatters like my parents’ hopes and dreams for me. I have to imagine that’s why they got rid of the flip phone, they know how many of us idiots out there 1) won’t use a case because it makes the phone looks like Precious, and 2) are dumb and drop it everywhere. Just raking in the money.

I’m such a fucking sheep like billions of other people for iPhones. I know from everyone…every single person who has gone from iPhone to Android that the latter is 10x better. But what am I going to do, change something that’s been a constant in my life for years? No chance. And then iPhone does that fucking obnoxious thing where it’s basically impossible to be in group texts with iPhone and Android users because they can’t see any of your texts. They are just such assholes and there’s nothing we can do about it. We can also talk about how their chargers fray out after using it for the 5th time and how my battery has the same life expectancy as a woman showing too much ankle in Kabul.

So I’m all about bringing back the flip phone. Plus it was always tons of fun to flip it open with one hand. Of course I’ll still need all my apps and all that shit, but the idea of the flip phone should have never left. Bring this shit back to America you weirdo Japanese fucks.