Why flip phone still favored by celebrities?

In the past, flip phone is the ultimate symbol of social status. Pulled out a Motorola StarTAC or RAZR said you're OK, that as we said, you are a "big players." Rappers have written them full of them, "cloth fabric bell ringing" sound of the lyrics. Fashion Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana are touted in advertising them. Hollywood's awards season, savvy PR people put them into the VIP goodie bags.

However, the Motorola RAZR cut this year after the listing released in 2004, was part of the price of a luxury mobile phone, so that the general public can afford it, then flip phone attraction will gradually subside. In the 21st century, and now most of these devices have been labeled circles mark the social stigma. Open a flip phone gives the feeling that you are older (so you need a big keyboard), people are poor (using a prepaid cell phone plan), or a criminal (see Sons of Anarchy Season 6 DVD and Breaking Bad).

Still, perhaps the ultimate flip phone also retained some vitality. Sports, fashion, film and television industry and the financial sector is still some super big fan of this mobile phone.

Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew 24-year-old Mubarak is used with a Samsung flip phone for five years. Remake version of the sci-fi film "Total Recall" actress Kate Beckinsale also declared himself like an LG flip phone. U.S. version of "Vogue" editor Anna Wintour is also holding a basic models Pantech. Warren Buffett when CNN Piers Morgan on the program to show his Nokia flip phone. Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones billionaire boast a flip phone because "accused of date", and therefore also triggered a frenzy of media coverage. He "CBS This morning" column explains:. "With this phone, I will not sit on it and make a call of"

In many cases, these staunch supporter of flip phone is not out of nostalgia and irony, or select them, but out on the usefulness of focus. Senior vice president of mobile business of Motorola, RAZR designer Jim Wicks , said: "We designed clamshell phone is the time to solve the many problems of concern to consumers: (screen) protection, portability, quality and performance. Benefits flip phone is that it protects the screen, which used to be and will continue to be a problem consumers are most concerned about. "

According to certain standards, basic flip phone models also exceed the performance of smart phones. These models tend to be more nostalgic withstand dust and moisture. They are often longer battery life (for example, according to their respective manufacturer says, Pantech Breeze III standby time of up to 14 days, while the iPhone 5c only 10 days). Keyboard with large buttons more easily than glass screen dialing, and their closer to the microphone away from the mouth, make calls sound clearer.

New Orleans advertising agency creative director, claiming the phone fans Carter Hooper on the first RAZR esteem. He recalled his first reaction to this phone are:. "I was finally able to have a little bit like a Star Trek communicator in things," Likewise, the online magazine "The Verge" senior correspondent Sean Hollister on these Some devices are also very small organ miss. He said: "Open the flip phone to the satisfaction of the body are all the other things that can not be done if your phone is not a smart machine, you will lose the things distract you, so it will not have trouble. "

For the fashion-oriented person, clamshell phone also has pleasing specific quality. Although the iPhone and Android seems to continue to introduce a slightly upgraded model, but the novelty, your name is not a smart phone, but make you a rebel, anti-mainstream people flip phone.
Today, the focus is not necessary to use a flip phone you give up the Internet. Even the most basic flip phone - such as the Samsung Rugby III, Pantech's Breeze III and LG Revere 2 - can provide a basis for networking. For people who want all the features are there hopeful signs that flip phone will appear intelligent trend. Samsung recently released a mobile phone equipped with Android system Hennessy (with external dual-touch screen) and W2014 phone.

These models are currently Andrews for the Chinese market, but there are rumors that they will be released in the United States. Advanced Mobile Information technology site Engadget's editor Brad Molen said:. "In today's world, flip phone in the foreseeable future there will be a place flip phone will not disappear - they just put on a different form of it."