The Motorola StarTAC — the world's first flip phone — came out 30 years ago. Here & Now's Robin Young speaks to technology journalist Richard Baguley about why the phone was so revolutionary. This ...

When I bought the Nokia 2780 Flip—a bare-bones device frequently recommended by “dumb phone” devotees—I wanted it to be bad. Ideally, it would be clunky to hold, tediously slow, and devoid of the kind ...

Samsung has filed for a unique flip phone design patent at WIPO. This shows a reversible front-and-back flip phone design. The patent images give an impression that the design doesn’t have a defined ...

Over the past five years, every list of the best folding phones has had a plethora of book-style ones, most of which follow the same form factor and overall design concept. There’s a big ...

Clamshell-style folding screens have made flip phones cool again – these are the best flip phones on sale, and the ones to ...