> Palozzolo wanted to use a flip phone during one high school summer because she thought it would be “cool.” “My parents said absolutely not, we need to be able to track you,” she said.
Will this be the generation that finally applies the Principle of Least Privilege?
I think that also applies to parts of the world in which the ''candy bar'' form factor like the Nokia 3310 is still quite popular.
North Americans have seemed to have a need for the flip form factor for decades. In the early 1990s Nokia sold an AMPS model called the 139 into the North American market, which was just a candy bar phone fitted with a flip cover for the keypad and a genuine imitation dummy placebo extendable antenna. Focus groups told them that they needed to scratch those consumer itches. Today there is potentially a modern Nokia 139DL model that may soon fill a similar niche.
1. pull buzzing phone from pocket, purse, etc.
2. extend antenna
3. flip cover open (the really cool ones had a spring loaded cover opener activated by a side button)
4. optional: look at the display before answering
https://intl.startrek.com/sites/default/files/styles/content...
/s but with a grain of truth I think: the physical action of closing a flip phone is satisfying, and the sharp noise made when closing it down one-handed comes across a little rude in more reserved cultures, but perfectly acceptable to the more boisterous Americans.