Kinda like those Samsung fold phones......contacted tracfone (that's who I use)

[a kennedy]

and they told me they start at $999.99. What the hell??? A thousand dollars??? Wow. Guess I won't Be obtaining a folding phone. Whew.....

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. I had to start thinking of it this way...they are not phones, they are ultra-mini computers.

It's a bit easier to fork over $1000+ if you have that mindset.

[a kennedy]

3. Yah, that is true about being a mini computer......I just use it for text and phone

and some photos........just can’t fathom spending that much. I do have a iMac at home for my heavy duty computing. I don’t really need it on a phone I guess. Thanks.

[CrispyQ]

2. I've seen some 2023 Motorola Razrs for around $400.

I bought a new phone online & NEVER AGAIN will I buy a phone I don't hold in my hand first.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. I'm on Tracfone. That doesn't sound right. Let me check the site. What's your ZIP code? NT

[a kennedy]

6. I used this one 54601

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. I thought it would ask me. It didn't. I said I was not an existing customer.

Twenty bucks:

https://www.tracfone.com/phone/tcl-flip-3-prepaid

https://www.tracfone.com/phone/nokia-2760-flip-prepaid-v2

I gave up at that point, because my connection is bogged down today.

For $190, you can buy a brand, spanking new 3rg generation iPhone SE, which is what I have.

https://www.tracfone.com/phone/apple-iphone-se-3rd-gen-prepaid

HTH

[XanaDUer2]

5. Cool

[canuckledragger]

8. Any electronic device that 'folds', runs the risk of wearing out the ribbon shaped cable that connects the 2 pieces.

Anything device that sees a lot of movement of it's pieces suffers from a lot of wear and tear like the hinges on a laptop...or the ribbon cable (a cable with multiple wires that's flattened, looks like a ribbon) that connects the screen to the rest of the laptop.

That goes for flip phones like the Samsung model you're describing, only much more so, being a phone.

Whenever you bend a piece of metal back and forth, it weakens the area being bent over time until it eventually breaks.

[a kennedy]

9. and others are flipping to flip phones.......

I felt empty and frustrated at how much time I spent on my iPhone. So I spent the last five years steadily stripping my phone down to the basics. Social media was the first to go, then email, then news apps, and then even internet browsers. Each step was more liberating than the first, and the incessant itch to check my phone shrank smaller and smaller. And yet, it didn’t disappear entirely. I was still checking the weather at least 15 times a day, since it was one of the few things left on the phone. Even when there’s almost nothing on it, the smartphone is hard to ignore.

I long pondered switching to a flip phone, but I always found an excuse to stay. Ultimately it was two of my students, 15- and 18-year-old sisters, who pushed me over the edge. Word spread around school that they had bought flip phones. I didn’t need to hear any more, especially considering that I teach a class on purpose and community where we specifically look at how our phones can get in the way of both. If they were brave enough to take the plunge, I could, too.

I spent $9 on a flip phone, plus $120 for a year of unlimited talk and text on a new number. For the last five months, I haven’t carried an iPhone with me, just my flip phone.

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