flip phones
Hinged cell devices
Flip phones are mobile phones with a hinged design that fold in half, the screen protected inside when closed.
Popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s before smartphones dominated, they're now associated with technological simplicity or deliberate rejection of constant connectivity: She switched to a flip phone to escape social media.
Some modern smartphones revive the folding form factor.
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