Old meets new or old beats new? LG's new flip phone "Gentle" looks like the prized baby of nostalgia. With a clamshell exterior, a keypad and a 3 megapixel camera, it's straight out of the 90's.

Here’s what LG told me: flip phones remain popular with four, somewhat related classes of users. These are people who: 1) Use their phone primarily for talking, not gaming or browsing.

"Someone, just about everywhere, has a phone you could use," she said, pulling out her old LG. "Plus, my flip phone just doesn't break down. If I want to play games, I can do that on my laptop.

LG leaves behind more than a flip phone-shaped hole in our hearts. ... But whether you follow mobile tech closely or just have a special place in your heart for your old flip phone, ...

For example, Samsung recently launched the SM-W2017 flip phone. Now, LG is here with a competitor — the LG Exalt LTE. ... That means it needs to get old flip phone owners to adopt new phones, ...

We see a lot of phone leak rumours on our beat, but this one has really got us talking: it's a retro-looking LG flip phone that seems to be running some version of Android. If you've been pining ...

LG has launched a retro-style flip phone in its native South Korea, dubbed the Wine Smart. The Android-powered handset favours the clamshell design of old, combining touchscreen functionality with ...

Of course, LG phones from 2021 aren't getting updates for Android 15, or the upcoming Android 16. LG was issuing updates for versions of Android 12 and Android 13, depending on the phone in question.

Everything that’s old is new again---and the flip-phone—the anti-smart phone & the Galapagos like replica of a time when Japan once dominated the world in mobile phones is making a comeback in ...