Flip Phones: The Holy Grail of 2025 Nerd Cred
In a world where the iPhone 18 Pro Max Air Ultra could pass for a digital wallet with zero questions, flip phones still manage to steal the spotlight. As The Verge notes, flip phones 'attract attention from the kind of people who have seen every type of phone in existence.' The author admits they've carried 'a lot of different phones around' with zero buzz since 2017 — unless it’s a flip phone, which apparently makes you the human equivalent of a unicorn sighting at Starbucks. Who knew nostalgia had such a powerful force in a sea of indistinguishable rectangles?
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Flip phones in 2025 are like vinyl records at a digital rave—totally out of place but financially justifying your hipster vibes and baffling everyone else who only cares about rounded corners.
People stopped talking about phones after 2017 but flip phones still get all the clout, like they’re the only ones rocking fit tea and blockchain simultaneously.
Carrying a flip phone today is the tech equivalent of showing up in cargo shorts to a black-tie gala—awkwardly charming and impossible not to stare at.
Source: Theverge | Published: 8/17/2025 | Author: Allison Johnson
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