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what features would you look for when choosing between flip phones? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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like I lived through the brick to flip phone to smartphone era, but I can't remember what features I was looking at on these flip phones when I was deciding which one to buy. do you guys remember?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Never had a flipphone but I would imagine that features like: opening with one hand, FM radio, and a good microphone, and builtin games are a must. I'm gonna get a refurb (excellent condition from amazon) Samsung flip3 5g so I'm hoping that I can open it with one hand, and I'm a bit sad that's there's no FM radio on it. But a lot of comprises are made when buying former flagships. (No SD card slot, no FM radio, no headphone jack.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don’t remember phones ever having FM radio as a norm. Yoy could listen to stations that were playable online if you had data. But that was before streaming is what is now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Very common before 2010. As far as I know the fm decoder was integrated in the SoC itself (at least it is so in modern SoCs), so it's not even that demanding on the design. Probably not a requested feature, which is a bit sad

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I just don’t remember it. Also had a Zune at that time haha