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The one feature that keeps me from recommending flip phones

The one feature that keeps me from recommending flip phones

The one feature that keeps me from recommending flip phones

The one feature that keeps me from recommending flip phones

How it started

I carry a lot of different phones around, and I rarely get questions about them because most people stopped talking about which phone they own around 2017. I could be using an unreleased iPhone 18 Pro Max Ultra to pay for my coffee and nobody would raise an eyebrow (present company excepted, of course). To the majority, a phone is a phone; no matter who makes it or what software it runs, they’re all roughly the same size and shape. Unless that phone happens to be a flip phone.

Flip phones attract attention from the kind of people who have seen every type of phone in existence, which makes sense: they’re very obviously d …

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