Teens Use Flip Phones For The First Time

“It’s like a calculator!”

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Madeline Khare
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Tiffany Kim Hoa Stevens
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Closed Caption:

- Oh, man, it's like a calculator.
(techno music)
- I know that if a flip phone
falls, you don't have to worry
about it breaking the screen.
- I know that they flip and they're old.
- Kind of basic as far as cell phones go.
(techno music)
- What is this?
- This isn't real, this
isn't real, it's a toy.
- It doesn't even have a screen.
- Dang, this is hella basic.
- Where's the on button?
(cell phone dialing)
- I'm guessing this is some
sort of a pager kind of thing.
- Wait, is it only for calling?
That's so sad, and it's ugly
too, this is really ugly.
- When I hold this, I think I
could be in the 19-whenever.
(techno music)
- So this one's got a screen, two screens.
- This one is taking forever to turn on.
- Maybe if I whip out the
antenna, it'll go faster.
(cell phone music)
- Oh, it has music.
- It's got a nice moving fish background.
- You can have pictures,
but you can't take them.
- So no selfies for you.
(cell phone dialing)
- Hello?
It actually works.
- It's still alive.
- Wow, it is pretty durable.
- Don't do that to my phone.
(techno music)
- Here it is, the Razr.
- I always wanted one of
these in elementary school.
- It's pink, it's cute, it's flat.
- Okay, this one is pretty,
it looks more elegant.
- And it is much slimmer
than the other ones.
- Oh, look, the--
(cell phone music)
- Tetris.
- Looks like we got sent
a Greek text on this.
- I'm sending a text to myself.
- So you've got to press
the numbers multiple times
to get to the letter that you want.
- Where's your space bar?
- Oh, no space bar.
- Oh, I figured it out,
the space is the hashtag.
- Hi one. It's one.
- So I wanted to write, hey, how are you,
but it turns out hem-mm how are you.
- So it definitely takes a lot
longer to text on this thing.
- Oh, it has phone camera, that's cute.
- Selfie skills.
(camera clicking)
- I don't know if I took the picture.
(camera clicking)
- This phone was built for selfies.
- This is not a picture I
would post on Instagram though.
(techno music)
- What is this?
- Oh, my god, this is ugly.
- Oh, shoot, I remember these.
- You'd see them all the
time in, like, Gossip Girl.
- No, yeah, I don't know
what this is, this is huge.
- [voiceover] What?
- This is hip, this is what
was cool with the kids.
- Does this thing not just fall right off?
- Hold up, boom.
- [voiceover] Okay, now it's powered on.
It's got a nice jingle.
- I like how the old
phones have nice jingles.
- Instant messaging and
then text messaging.
I guess back in the
day that was different?
- I feel like it's easier to
cheat your way through class.
- Yeah, I'd probably use
this, like, during school.
It's pretty straightforward.
You just have it under the table
and then you can just do whatever with it.
- This is the coolest.
(techno music)
- They were pretty cool.
- That texting, it took forever.
- The Razr is what began
the selfie revolution.
- I low-key kind of got excited
when I saw the Sidekick.
I guess that's like the silver lining
in the bronze age of cell phones.
- I think I'm going to
stick to my smartphone.
- I'm going to keep my iPhone.
I need my iPhone, I love my iPhone.
- The best part about flip phones
is that when you're
hanging up on somebody,
you can just be like,
click, bye, you're gone.