The thing about the flip phone aesthetic is that it hearkens back to a time when the act of taking a photo with one’s phone was more important than the actual picture.

Flip phones are all the rage in Japan — where shipments rose in 2014 for the first time in nearly a decade, while the demand for smartphones fell for the second straight year.

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 ...

After the advent of smartphones, Japanese consumers were a bit slow to adopt the new technology, and part of the reason was that at the time Japan was already making the most advanced, feature-packed ...

The buttons are easier to type on, the battery lasts longer, it's familiar. No, we're not talking about BlackBerry this time, but the Japanese feature phone. Glorious, folding forefather to the ...

For the first time in seven years, shipments of old-school flip phones increased in 2014 while those of smartphones fell. While it may be a statistical anomaly, Japan’s flip phones are highly ...

According to a report from Reuters, Japanese shipments of traditional flip-phones rose in 2014, for the first time after seven years, while smartphone shipments took the opposite path.

Flip-phone monthly charges are apparently several thousand yen cheaper (1,000 yen is a little over $8.25). But the Japanese economy has been weak for quite some time now, and wage growth is the ...

Japanese smartphone company P-Up World’s latest phone brings back that classic design… but with a modern twist. The new Mode 1 Retro Ⅱ smartphone is a flip phone with a number pad.

Your cheatin' heart may tell on you, but your Fujitsu F-series flip phone won't. Some cheaters in Japan are reportedly getting an infidelity assist from older phones with fancy privacy features.

Well, actually, flip phones aren't dead yet, not in Japan at least. Sales of flip phones grew by 5.7 percent to an amazing 10.58 million units, ...