The classic flip phone is back. Stay connected with 4G and WhatsApp and Facebook. Its external screen shows who’s calling. The big buttons make for easy messaging and dialing. Plus, the dedicated emergency button is there for extra peace of mind.
@robert_cohen2 You don't think a phone with both Google assistant and Facebook apps built into firmware will keep your location or conversations secret, do you? :)
i have a nokia bar phone i bought for ~$15 (1010 rupees) in India that works with my US sim. I love it. lasts a week on a charge and has snake. my high score is 3054
I think I would love it if it had a full QWERTY keyboard. No way I am going back to texting in that numeric keyboard again! Plus, nobody really dials a phone number anymore. we look up names in contacts. Definitely for a phone keyboard, letters are now more important than numbers.
Brilliant but seriously could do with FB being integrated. If I’m going to move to a bare bones phone I don’t want the app that helped start all the nonsense.
Interesting to see if KaiOS will get the needed developer attention to be a true day-to-day phone. WhatsApp and Facebook are surely important to get people to actually use it.
It’s so difficult to innovate on design and form factor in such a saturated market as smartphones that even resuscitating the dead seems like a viable option.
It’s cute and all but, regretfully, it isn’t.
I dare you to drop your flagship iPhone or Android for a flip phone for real.
I've been a Nokia 5.1 user for about 3 months and gotta say, Nokia make a pretty slick phone. The only thing I don't like? No push notifications from apps.
Which is basically a deal-breaker.
Apparently a known-issue introduced with buggy battery saving system apps in a February update, and even though I recognise this is running a different OS, the fact that there hasn't been a fix for such a fundamental feature would make me pretty reluctant to get another Nokia device.
I figured we'd eventually move back to a smaller talk/text device designed to simply provide www connection for productivity and full comms devices.
Fun to see it happening!
Omg omg now dont get me wrong I absolutely love my Note 8, but a flip phone comeback - damn. I loved my flip phones and have wanted another, ugh. My Motorola Razor was my all time fav.
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