Foldable flip phones are an overly complicated solution to a nonexistent problem. They are kinda neat, but is that enough?
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Foldable flip phones are an overly complicated solution to a nonexistent problem.
They solve the same problems as the original folding phones. They allow you to keep you phone in your slacks or skirt pocket without destroying the look of your outfit or the screen of your phone.
Slab phones are a disaster for pocket-ability. Yes you can shove it in your back pocket where it looks like ass, breaks your ass when you sit down, and breaks the screen or the phone itself if you sit down in the wrong way or on the wrong thing.
Folding phones solve those problems.
You've hit the nail on the head there.
I had a Flip3 as a way of trying to kick my QWERTY habit, and it was cool as fuck. It's a great conversation starter (if you like starting conversations!), it's a lovely form factor to carry in it's folded state, and no matter what anyone says, it's satisfying as fuck to end a particularly heated call by slamming the phone shut.
Other than that though... it's just a decent phone. No better or worse than anything else aside from the irritating bloatware.
The hinge was weak as fuck and two of my devices suffered screen bleed from the hinge, but then that was nearly five generations of Flip ago.