Flip-phones!

[PurpleHello98]

Update: I'm about to pull the trigger! I was browsing at a Wal-Mart in my new city recently (I moved away for college) and found out they sell unlocked flip phones! The only problem now is that I need to find a way to get my friends to text instead of Instagram DM---for whatever reason, at least on my college campus, the main way of communication is via Instagram DMs and it's mainly what people give you when you ask to talk to them. At this point, I'm considering using my iPhone's weird Instagram notification bug as an excuse. :| Any ideas, y'all?

[zawieja]

That is SUCH a gorg phone i hope i get the opportunity to get it one day,,,im hoping to visit some secondhand shops in japan (if) my family continues with the plans to go there for the winter 

That sounds like a pretty good idea. For one, you can probably get it for cheaper than you would online, and also - it might have proper updates, since it seems impossible to update it without a japanese sim card 

Update: I'm about to pull the trigger! I was browsing at a Wal-Mart in my new city recently (I moved away for college) and found out they sell unlocked flip phones! The only problem now is that I need to find a way to get my friends to text instead of Instagram DM---for whatever reason, at least on my college campus, the main way of communication is via Instagram DMs and it's mainly what people give you when you ask to talk to them. At this point, I'm considering using my iPhone's weird Instagram notification bug as an excuse. :| Any ideas, y'all?

In my experience, people who want to stay in touch with you - close friends and family - will adjust without a problem. But for other people it might be an annoyance and they might forget to contact you when, let's say, some important organisational thing happens at your college  I don't think anyone should have to make excuses for wanting to use other manners of communications, though, we are free to do whatever we want with our lives and our phones :P

[1dkreally]

i recently saw a video (in the shorts format, sorry X{) that featured a flip phone natively running android (not the most recent version, but still very cool!) and after looking through this person's videos i found that smart flip phones seem to be a whole thing!

if i had a flip phone i'd likely get one of those, there are smartphone apps that i need to have (public transport, messaging, etc) but they said that they were less active on their phones as the form factor slowed them down, i think it'd be perfect for me! :D

[larvapuppy]

I don't own a regular slab-type smartphone- my flip phone is my only mobile phone, and it works great. I only use it for calling and texting, but it runs Android so theoretically I could download apps on it, I just choose not to.

The model is CAT S22. It's nothing fancy but I do like that it has a little screen that lets you check the time and whether you have any messages/missed calls when it's closed.

I love the look of these cute ones everyone is sharing. Maybe I'll look into one of them once this one wears out. 

[halcybutton]

i miss my first phone a lot, i don't remember exactly what model or make it was but it had a sliding keyboard which i would mess with alllllll the time lol. i also had a windows phone when those were coming out, it was not a flip phone but it definitely was a unique phone. anyways, in the current day, i've been eyeing the cat s22, kyocera 903kc, and kyocera ky-42c! mainly the later two due to aesthetic preferences when i am in a better place financially maybe i'll finally get myself one