How to Use flip phone in a Sentence

flip phone

noun
  • The new flip phone will be available in stores on June 23.
    Iyaz Akhtar, PCMAG, 1 June 2023
  • Connor has a smart phone, and Shields owns a flip phone.
    Bryce Dole, oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2023
  • People didn’t even have flip phones the last time the Court took up a case like this.
    Sam Sanders, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2023
  • And he’s been known to ditch his iPhone for a flip phone for stretches at a time.
    Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The Motorola Razr Plus’ reign as the best flip phone might be short-lived.
    Allison Johnson, The Verge, 26 July 2023
  • The filming style has the feel of footage captured by a close friend on a flip phone camera.
    Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Who is most likely to get rid of their smartphone and go back to using a flip phone?
    Emily Becker, Women's Health, 24 May 2023
  • There were only flip phones at that time, so there would be no way to tell if I was lost or off track.
    Ruthie Ackerman, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2023
  • He was allowed a kid's smartwatch and then he was allowed a flip phone.
    Staff Author, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2023
  • From flip phones to smartphones to ones with the strictest parental controls, these picks keep kids connected and safe.
    Phoebe Sklansky, Parents, 18 Aug. 2023
  • But until then, right now the two flip phones are sort of neck and neck in overall quality.
    Ben Sin, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
  • When open, these flip phones are not much different from a normal phone.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 22 May 2023
  • Oppo has launched its new flip phone, named the Find N2 Flip, globally this week via a London launch event.
    Ben Sin, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
  • After Horn made his way into the end zone, his teammate Michael Lewis raised the goal post padding and handed Horn a flip phone.
    Chantz Martin, Fox News, 17 Oct. 2023
  • There was an unexpected return to the ’90s and early aughts: flip phones.
    Ian Malone, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Samsung saved this year’s biggest advancements for the flip phone.
    Allison Johnson, The Verge, 26 July 2023
  • Unlike many popular phones on the market, the Galaxy Z Flip 5 is a 6.7-inch flip phone that can fold in half to fit in your pocket.
    Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Perhaps Aziz texted it out to the world using his beloved flip phone, but the old technology failed and the message didn’t go through.
    Vulture, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The drawing depicted her taking a call on an silver flip phone with her hair pulled up in a ponytail.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Motorola once led the mobile phone market, with its chic flip phones like the Motorola Razr.
    Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The Nokia 2780 is an elevated flip phone with a digital screen on the outside, which displays the time and caller IDs.
    Phoebe Sklansky, Parents, 18 Aug. 2023
  • That compares to a more impressive IPX8 for Samsung’s latest flip phone.
    Jon Porter, The Verge, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Motorola is touting this as the largest external display on a flip phone.
    Iyaz Akhtar, PCMAG, 1 June 2023
  • The couple and their parents were perched on the curb, with flip phones and phone books, outside the wedding venue at 1 a.m., dialing numbers in search of a hotel that had power.
    Sadiba Hasan, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2023
  • The oldest remembers when workers stayed with one employer for life and still uses a flip phone.
    WSJ, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Some Gen Zers are encouraging their peers to unplug from TikTok, influencers, and the like by bringing back the flip phone.
    Sara Lang, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Variations ensued: shrinking sizes, the flip phone, and the Blackberry.
    Sara Lang, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Apr. 2023
  • That aberrant development is still with us via Dae-su’s flip phone and warped psychology — the guilt and anger that drive his unholy quest.
    Armond White, National Review, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Consider that one of the buzziest technology gadgets is a $139 phone case that gives your iPhone a Blackberry-style keyboard and that some teens (and adults) love flip phones.
    Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Once the largest vendor of cellphones and synonymous with the flip phone era, Nokia later struggled to compete with Apple, Samsung and others in the smartphone market.
    Jennifer Korn, CNN, 27 Feb. 2023

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