What Can You Do With a Flip Phone?
Flip phones were all the rage back in the 90's and early 2000's, offering a simple but stylish way to make calls and send messages. Back before the time of the smartphone, these cell phones were featured just the basics of what you needed. They could play music, take photos with the phone camera, call friends, and send messages, and Motorola made some enduringly popular styles. Although they might have given way to the smartphone, there are still some great models available from eBay sellers for anyone wanting to revert back to a flip phone and make life simple again.
What Models of Motorola Flip Phones Are There?
RAZR and other models from the brand led in flip phone designs. These are just a few styles of mobile phone sellers on eBay still offer.
- V180: This very basic style of phone has a small display but has a long battery life, clear speaker, and USB capability.
- RAZR: The most popular range was the RAZR series which came in different versions including RAZR V3, which had one of the slimmest bodies we'd ever seen in a phone.
- Pebl: This compact flip phone had a magnetic spring that helped it open and close, and a clock display on the front screen.
What Can You Do With a Flip Phone?
Before the time of the smart mobile phone, flip phones were some of the trendiest and future forward with their technology and design. If you're thinking of reverting back to a flip mobile, you'll need to know what features they offer in comparison to your modern phone.
- Flip open design: Available in a range of colors including matte black and hot pink, these phones were compact and flipped open when you wanted to use them.
- Keypad: The keypad on later styles of mobile phone used an electroluminescent keypad that lit up as you typed.
- Video and display: The display on the RAZR series included both an internal and external screen for viewing videos, pictures, and other media. Screen size varied for each model.
- Camera: Later models, including the V3i featured a 1.23 megapixel camera and 8x zoom.
- Storage: The internal storage was limited on these flip phones but later models of RAZR took a micro SD card which could be expandable up to 512 Mb.