Flip, flippity and flip: My Review of Flip phones 21 years later.

Y'all know the RAZR V3 from Motorola, right? if not, Well, welcome to today's history lesson about tech. To Sum it all up: Phones exist since the late 1800s from the company thats now known as AT&T, motorola was formed in the 1920s as a radio company, in the 80s, motorola released their first ever mobile phone (and also the first ever compact phone, if you COULD call it so): The DynaTAC. That thing, although portable, was the size of a BRICK, but it was a success... between corporate richies, most of them went into beepers. but ooooooh no, there was the (somehow) finnish brand NOKIA, and their revoluntionary mobile phones were (a bit) low-cost, VERY portable (to the point could fit into the pocket) and destructible. And guess what? They were selling like hotcakes! And now Motorola was burning money left and right. Their Solution? The RAZR V3! a Phone that had a Very Impressive design! But, did it sold well? YES! It sold very well, making various brands make [not impressive] similar models and igniting the flip phones.

...Until 2007 when steve jobs said: "All phones we had on the market suck, so you know whats the solution? put a big ass screen that you can use your finger to navigate, have the power of a computer for navigating the web and voila! you got the smartphone!" And forced us to doomscroll for hours watching the most awful crap on instagram and tiktok making us with anxiety and procrastination.

But What if you still love the flippity flip?

Well There's Three options:

You either go to a samsung store (or your mobile telecom store of your choice) and get the Zflip and pay a fortune.

either buy a phone made for the "elderly" who has 1 function: Call their son/daughter

or go on a deep search on japanese proxy sites (sendico, buyee, zenmarket) find the most random KEITAI 携帯 from kyocera or sharp, pay 100 bucks (10% product, 10% store fee, 80% taxes) wait 40 days, and then use the most obscure and shady website on the web to unlock it to use your sim-card.

And Then you can customize your own!

I dont have a flip phone in hand, cause to get a keitai here in brazil you gotta pay 90% taxes (send help) and i dont have the buck-a-roo. but i'll say it thru my point of view in videos.

I LOVE IT, I NEED IT AND I WANNA USE IT AS A SECONDARY PHONE! (aaaaaaaaaa)

And yes, i know that it uses a old version of android, and i care alot, since i'm interested in new tech also, unfortunately, day by day now, those flip phones are becoming only a novelty of the past because more and more people are finally getting accostumed to the new tech.

Plus, the Zflip and its rivals has still a large issue with the screen getting "creases" some time after its use, which is somehow hard to be fixed, YET, THEY WANT YOU TO PAY A FORTUNE TO GET THE PHONE (IM EFFING MAD).

But to this day, its difficult to get a good relic from the past, and day by day, companies force you to stop using it, which sucks really, just like the flipping flip. And no, i didnt make this entire article to make a joke about the hand signal. I just really AND REALLY love flip phones, i betcha you only clicked this cause you love flip phones, and i also do.

So Alas, this is my history lesson, review and rant about flip phones. From Red Chevron.