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CBS News notes that many celebrities are making the switch back.
Vogue's editor-in-chief Anna Wintour was seen at the U.S. Open three months ago with a flip phone model from the early 2000s, while actress Kate Beckinsale and singer Rihanna were also photographed using the old technology. New York Senator Chuck Schumer is said to like his flip phone so much he's stockpiling the device, since he figures "they'll stop making them sooner or later."
Actually, they haven't. Flip phones continue to be offered as cheap or free phones by the major carriers and are often used as disposable phones or by the second-tier carriers.
This isn't the first article on the resurrection of flip phones. CNN last month had a piece on the subject, but it noted that the trend was starting among hipsters with their reflexive, go-against-the-grain mindset. It also noted that some people just plain didn't want the features of a smartphone, like Facebook and mail, and a flip phone gave them a chance to unplug.
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I think as more people own cheap tablets like the Amazon Kindle Fire HD6 , and small laptop/netbooks like Chromebook, Apple Macbook Air, or cheap Windows 8.1 netbooks like the HP Stream 11, they can pretty much do all smartphone tasks on either a tablet, or smaller laptop, so they are better off using a tablet, and a laptop, and using a regular cell phone for making calls, and texts.
Plus, regular non-smartphone cell phones are so cheap these days that you can get one for $10-30 at a store, and the monthly subscription cost of cell service is $10-30 a month. I think regular cell phones are given away for free if you agree to subscribe to a monthly cell plan instead of using prepaid cell service.
The battery life on Flip phones also lasts weeks, or days of regular use without needing a charge compared to smartphones which need to be charge a few times a day if you use them a lot, or your phone uses a lot of power when ON.
Vogue's editor-in-chief Anna Wintour was seen at the U.S. Open three months ago with a flip phone model from the early 2000s, while actress Kate Beckinsale and singer Rihanna were also photographed using the old technology. New York Senator Chuck Schumer is said to like his flip phone so much he's stockpiling the device, since he figures "they'll stop making them sooner or later."
Actually, they haven't. Flip phones continue to be offered as cheap or free phones by the major carriers and are often used as disposable phones or by the second-tier carriers.
This isn't the first article on the resurrection of flip phones. CNN last month had a piece on the subject, but it noted that the trend was starting among hipsters with their reflexive, go-against-the-grain mindset. It also noted that some people just plain didn't want the features of a smartphone, like Facebook and mail, and a flip phone gave them a chance to unplug.
Read More
I think as more people own cheap tablets like the Amazon Kindle Fire HD6 , and small laptop/netbooks like Chromebook, Apple Macbook Air, or cheap Windows 8.1 netbooks like the HP Stream 11, they can pretty much do all smartphone tasks on either a tablet, or smaller laptop, so they are better off using a tablet, and a laptop, and using a regular cell phone for making calls, and texts.
Plus, regular non-smartphone cell phones are so cheap these days that you can get one for $10-30 at a store, and the monthly subscription cost of cell service is $10-30 a month. I think regular cell phones are given away for free if you agree to subscribe to a monthly cell plan instead of using prepaid cell service.
The battery life on Flip phones also lasts weeks, or days of regular use without needing a charge compared to smartphones which need to be charge a few times a day if you use them a lot, or your phone uses a lot of power when ON.
