Flip phones are having a moment — and all eyes are on Samsung now

Motorola Razr Plus next to Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4.
It’s your time to shine, little guys. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge

What’s old is hot again, and flip phones are so very hot right now.

These phones are a far cry from the phone that you mastered T9 texting on in college. Today’s flip phones are garden-variety 2023 smartphones that happen to fold in half — plus a screen on the front cover.

They’ve been making a kind of comeback over the past few years, but until now, they’ve existed in the shadows of their bigger, pricier fold-style counterparts. That’s understandable, considering that their small cover screens haven’t been good for much more than checking the weather and pressing pause on a podcast. But that’s all changing this year: in a round of updates from Motorola, Oppo, and very likely Samsung next, cover screens are getting much larger and way...

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source https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/24/23803386/samsung-unpacked-2023-galaxy-z-flip-fold-5-motorola-razr-plus

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