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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.
My friends started getting smartphones when they were in Grade 4. At first, it was just one or two kids. I’m in Grade 8 now, ...
"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. A ...
Like AOL subscriptions, the flip phone seems to be an anachronism, a leftover fragment from another age. And yet, just like AOL subscriptions, the flip phone persists, with LG this week ...
LG leaves behind more than a flip phone-shaped hole in our hearts The company leaves a void that brands like Motorola and TCL are well-positioned to fill ...
There was once a time when LG was among the major smartphone manufacturers. Unfortunately, that hasn't been the case for a while now: LG gave up on the phone business in April 2021, reducing the ...
The humble flip phone is making a comeback! Just kidding -- but Verizon is now selling a new LTE-only flip phone from LG.
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 ...
It’s not often that we talk about a basic flip phone around these parts. With smartphones available at almost any price point, it seems sort of silly to even consider a dumb or basic phone at ...
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 ...