Gen Zers Switched From Smart Phones to Flip Phones! Here’s What Happened…

Osamah Qatanani and Sammy Palazzolo are two young adults who ditched their smart phones for flip phones. Osamah tells us about what he learned after embarking on a 30-day challenge, and Sammy tells us why she decided to get a flip phone for her nights out with friends. Do you remember flip phones, #TamFam?
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[@anthonygonzalez5769]

I'm a Millennial and I'm so happy that Gen Z wants to bring back the good old flip phones I'm so excited about this❤️ social media is very bad.

[@doctorplague1789]

Trying to earn some money to finally buy one. I'm so excited :')

[@bluezy710]

It's a lie from the media. Literally none of us are doing that. It's literally the same girl hired to say this on all the shows.

[@rainy5517]

My childhood ❤ that's why I'm buying one

[@fan.80s_90s]

Social media will be freaking out soon when users for social media is decreasing.

[@jon6309]

As a millennial who was born in the 90s I am really liking these nostalgic times.

[@nahfamnope]

Oooh yes! I remember being out on the town with just a regular digital camera. I had a Sony Cybershot, and we were limited to the little view finder to know if we got a decent shot. No standing around and editing and posting to the internet. I also remember 35mm film cameras too. What an even better era that was. We actually took pictures and hoped they came out nicely. The trips to the drug store to drop off our film. The waiting period, the anticipation! Gathering around your friends and family when you finally got your pictures back and rejoicing over your memories that could be days, months, or even years old depending on how often you took pictures. I’m not sure if I’m anti-smart phone, but I’m definitely anti social media. I remember the days when I had to be socially creative… now I get to just bury my face in my phone when I don’t wanna talk lol

[@thenormalone6753]

Also a simple phone would have a very inexpensive data-plan. That’s one of the coolest things about this in my opinion

[@crystalsnow1138]

My dad is ahead of the trend, he uses a flip phone.

[@jusletursoulglobaby]

umm... flip phones were not out in the 90s. those didnt pop off until early 2000. in the 90s you had that brick Nokia phone that did. no. flip. and never broke and cost like $3000000 per month. now I know Gen X knows that... why we letting these ppl pretend the 90s was more advanced than it was?

[@melissambabybroadnax3697]

I had a flip Motorola in like 96-97 so flip was around in the 90s

[@uniquebeautyify]

@@melissambabybroadnax3697 I had one too! 😄 Those were the moments 😆

[@nahfamnope]

There were flip phones in the 90’s that didn’t fold in half like the ones we just saw. They were bulkier back then and the foldable part only covered the keypad.

[@jusletursoulglobaby]

@@nahfamnope they are pointing to the fold in half flip phones that everyone called a flip phone. they are not referring to analog phones

[@jusletursoulglobaby]

@@melissambabybroadnax3697 a flip key pad isnt considered a flip phone. it never was

[@GUNS_jk]

Born in 87, I never saw a true flip phone till early 2000s.

[@musiclover4587]

I actually kept my flip phone, might have to pull it out again!

[@virginiadouglas9449]

i have been needing another flip phone for quite some time now as i do prefer it thank you!

[@user-ti6ef7jd3l]

Hello I'm a Japanese essayist. The name is Mikan oshidari. I have published a book called [I want to stop being a slave to my smartphone]. I was addicted to my smartphone. But now I'm using a feature phone (flip phone). It's all about mental health. It was hard to stare at the screen for so long, being dominated by social media and unnecessary information. I was truly a slave to my smartphone. Now I use a feature phone (flip phone) and it's comfortable. I'm tired of using my smartphone, so I love feature phones (flip phones). But it's sad that feature phones are often ridiculed. I'm also worried that it may no longer be produced. I'm glad that you are communicating about the feature phone in this way. I hope people will reaffirm the goodness of feature phones. It's not that smartphones are bad, but feature phones are necessary for mental health. Please feel free to post again♥

[@sixxthree5959]

Yes yes yes bring the flip phone back the 90s I’ve been hoping for this

[@wkeklaalal1577]

I'm 20 and my first phone was a nokia sliding phone. I had it when I was 8. It could do just texting and calling and it replaced our family's landline

[@tthatonegirl2950]

I was so excited when I got a flip phone that didn’t have an antenna and had a camera ❤ the Nokia was the shit tho they need to make phones as durable as they used to be now they break so easily

[@user-ge2es2bp2x]

they didn't really switch though, only for a short time/intermittently. Also the phone they're showing has whatsapp, facebook etc. It's cool that they're doing it but calling it changing to using an og flip phone is a little disengenous

[@MrMaximino92]

Oh my God all nostalgic with selective memory: old feature phones were as expensive as modern smartphones, got people hooked on sms and internet in the 00s (yes there was already an epidemic of phone zombies back, always on their phones), and most of them were breaking so easily.

[@darnellmahomes15]

Im gonna go back to my flip phone right away

[@clove8763]

Welp, you know what they say-- Eventually, one will get tired of eating too much candy and our smartphones have indeed become our limitless candy!!! I'm not flipping back to the flip phone tho! 😁

[@Nxpo_]

Mfs will never experience running out of minutes and can only call out free on nights and weekends. Or gotta press 1 button over and over until you get to the letter you want while sending a text 😂

[@veliciawilliams3776]

What in the 90s ???🤔

[@irothman9269]

Okay now which model retro phone is best?

[@BigBro316]

This is the real shit alright! I love "old" retro technology like this, it's so cool we NEED to bring it back, says a 16 YO 😄.

[@nola7921]

Shit Generation Z is the smartest generation we’ve had since the Silent Generation

[@TheThreeCount]

not a flip phone fans since the "flex" was constantly expensive and cost much time to teardown a flip phone. still have "STRONK" candybar Sony Ericsson K750 with 3G network (yeah, it's still work) and i used it for weekend. even video record was so bad (15fps?) but the battery life will lasted a week.

[@iivasmith1163]

I had a new flip on 2007

[@darnellmahomes15]

All i want is youtube on my flip phone thats all i need

[@dlazyace9116]

Bruh. They act like there's no internet on the filp phones. Bruh. Half my class was using flip phones texting or either on MySpace(mobile version) and FB. And boy, did our parents get mad because the internet did cost us.

[@philthomas436]

To those who are saying there were no flip phones in the 90s...remember the Motorola Startac? It was the first flip phone and was introduced to the market in 1996.

[@sasapetroski981]

Yes want flip phone again, will have more free time in life

[@amberstephens6167]

On the old flip phones no GPS.

[@alvinator5203]

Why is this host holding and asking questions she should already know the answer to? They’re flip phones….she probably went through a dozen by herself.

[@Itsunclegabby]

I dunno about you but I MISS my LG Chocolate. If they brought that back, I'd grab one immediately.

[@RBR-lo2ei]

The 90s? We didn't have flip phones in the 90s. They came along in the early 2000s. In the 90s we had bar phones. Time will tell if this flip phone adoption is merely a fad amongst the GenZers. Hopefully it isn't a fad. I have an iPhone SE but the phone I actually use is a flip phone. All I want is a good voice phone. Something I don't have to charge every other day!

[@AnaJots]

The first prototype of the 2000s flip phone came out in 96, wasn't as digital, and obviously most didn't by it yet.

[@darnellmahomes5036]

Touch screens are a waist of money when the screen shatter the phone no more good after spending 300$ or 400$ for a phone

[@yohan1004]

The Motorola StarTAC, first released on January 3, 1996, is often assumed to be the first ever clamshell (flip) mobile phone. I used mine in 90's I don't know where all your asses at.

[@A22DNAL]

Thank you for fact-checking these people! LOOOOOOOOVED my StarTAC!

[@darnellmahomes5036]

Flip phones the way to go

[@darnellmahomes15]

Every time when i getta touch screen the screen always shatter after i pay 100's of $ for it

[@cramsa]

My first phone was in 2000… a green screen flip phone… it was actually way more reliable than my iPhone and now I switched back to the flip phones… damn iPhones too glitchy, one slip of your hand and some funky thing pops up… can’t stand it anymore.

[@wade1593]

Nah.. give them the real flip.. without the screen .. ie startag that’s a real challenge lol

[@ismail64yilanci]

isnt he look exactly like prince ali xd

[@darnellmahomes15]

Look how many people spend hundreds on a touch screen they have issues with it it really upsets me just thinking about it

[@MrZZooh]

How are flip phones from the 90s? 90s had pagers. Flip phones are from mid 2000s. I had a flip phone all the way until 2018 and considering how much time I waste on my smart phone and the dependence I have developed to it, it is really not worth all the convenience it offers me. I was a lot happier before I switched to smart phones.

[@albertmassaquoi1539]

From are the early 2000s

[@yohan1004]

The Motorola StarTAC, first released on January 3, 1996, is often assumed to be the first ever clamshell (flip) mobile phone

[@RBR-lo2ei]

I posted the same thing today. Should have read more comments (like yours) before doing so. We had bar phones in the 90s. My wife had a Nokia phone in 1998 (not a flip) and my first cell phone was a Nokia 3390 (North American variant of the 3310) that I bought in 2000. Flips started appearing in the 2000s in huge numbers.

[@deekay6526]

I like texting on a smart phone. If it weren't for that, I would switch. You could just take all the apps off of your smart phone.

[@Hiltonliveparanormalnews79]

Bring back nextel

[@kay5306]

Under 30… 😂 if you are at least 22 years old you had a flip phone. most of the older gen z had flip or sliding phones going into high school/end of middle school. Especially if you had an older sibling. At 26 now most of us didn’t get a real smart phone till we were 16/17. Same for my sister whos 3 years younger than me she had a flip phone til she got to high school. So the real question is if you’re under 20 do you know what a flip phone is 😂 and obviously they’re discovering them now

[@iivasmith1163]

The phone in the 90's was a bag phone. The Obama phone was a flip

[@andrewedwards8137]

Sammy k made it

[@johnroekoek12345]

Stay free. Don't depend on your smartphone.

[@arielvega7325]

There were no flip phones in the 90's they started with the Motorola Startac in the 2000s, in the 90's there were only chocolate bar type cell phones or brick phones

[@alverleejenkins2417]

Flip phone are from the 90s a flip phone startek y’all gotta know your history of a flip phone and how it’s changed and developed different evelution of a flip phone!

[@bm6552]

late 90s and they grew in early 2000s...most gen z by "#bringtheflipphoneback" mean cute y2k flip phones ,not the sad brick phone with an antena and a monochrome screen yall had.Stop making everything about the 90s

[@user-xo1ud2ed1c]

Im using my verizon TCL flip phone

[@darnellmahomes15]

But people laughs when they using a flip phone but they spending so much money on a piece of thin glass knowing they getting ripped off i will never go back to a touch screen

[@darnellmahomes15]

Paying 900$ for a smart phone is a waist when it comes to a screen cracking

[@darnellmahomes5036]

Im getting rid of my touch screen for my flip phone

[@cherribraden1045]

If want go back in time gotta lose some rights

[@Nick-md2ro]

Anybody Under the age of 30 ? Get out of here. Im 35 an I had a flip phone in my later teenage yrs

[@iMichaelBrien]

I'm buying a Sunbeam F1 Pro (Aspen) phone and giving up my iPhone. I'm done!

[@darnellmahomes15]

Thats a major flush of money these carriers to money hungry for a class phone thats easily can be damage

[@darnellsteelers]

Im glad im using 1

[@bethg.5611]

Flip phones are cool.

[@elizabethpeterson1644]

I used to have a flipped phone almost 9 years ago. I rather not go back towards it. I loved using my iPhone 14 in purple. I remembered using scrunches during the 90’s when my hair was longer and it took me a long time to grow my hair long. I didn’t get a cellphone in the late 90’s which was almost the end of that decade. That cellphone wasn’t a flip phone.

[@darnellmahomes15]

Touch screens are for hackers to track your moves these carriers dont care about the saftey all the care about is over price a glass for scammers and hackers

[@darnellmahomes5036]

Or a iphone for 800$ soon you drop it 800$ gone down the drain

[@GUNS_jk]

Meanwhile in Japan: うちは今でも折りたたみ携帯電話を使っています。アメリカの愚かなZoomer Kidsのおかげで、Flip Phone株はこれまで以上に利益を上げています。

[@Siranoxz]

I have the feeling this is all short lived, yes as a millennial i´ve been living through the 90´s and experienced the flip phone. Gen Z probably having coming to a conclusion that they wished they experienced the 90´s and what that brought to the world. And Millennials would have wished we could have experienced the 80´s.

[@vienicestyles]

BP need their smart phones to record their interactions with police and racist ass Karen’s and Brads. Soooo that’s a NO for me.

[@darnellsteelers]

Thats a nice looking flip

[@darnellsteelers]

Im back with my TCL flip pro phone

[@darnellsteelers]

What so funny about a flip phone but everyone have crack touch screens