Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • World
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse
Code Project
  1. Home
  2. The Lounge
  3. Is there any manufacturer that makes a combo flip phone & smartphone?

Is there any manufacturer that makes a combo flip phone & smartphone?

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved The Lounge
mobiledata-structuresquestion
28 Posts 21 Posters 0 Views 1 Watching
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • D David ONeil

    Rotary dial is better.

    The forgotten roots of science | C++ Programming | DWinLib

    M Offline
    M Offline
    MikeTheFid
    wrote on last edited by
    #19

    I wonder if it comes with a spiral tether so you can't remove it from the kitchen wall.

    Cheers, Mike Fidler "I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright "I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright "I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.

    1 Reply Last reply
    0
    • S swampwiz

      Something that bothers me about the smartphone is the screen touchpad in the way that it is never as good as a good old-fashioned button-phone. I was wondering if anyone makes a phone that can be a smartphone as well as have a physical button-pad array.

      E Offline
      E Offline
      etkid84
      wrote on last edited by
      #20

      Pretty sure that's why blackberry users were the last people to give up their devices. Just saying. :java:

      ~d~

      1 Reply Last reply
      0
      • S swampwiz

        Something that bothers me about the smartphone is the screen touchpad in the way that it is never as good as a good old-fashioned button-phone. I was wondering if anyone makes a phone that can be a smartphone as well as have a physical button-pad array.

        P Offline
        P Offline
        Peter R Fletcher
        wrote on last edited by
        #21

        One alternative approach is to get a smartphone with a stylus. I have large fingers, and I find this a godsend.

        1 Reply Last reply
        0
        • D David ONeil

          :laugh: Before my time! I suppose you had to use the old Telephone Exchange Names as well? (I always wondered about them watching shows as a kid. What the heck???)

          The forgotten roots of science | C++ Programming | DWinLib

          R Offline
          R Offline
          Richard Winks
          wrote on last edited by
          #22

          My folks had a landline with the same phone number for over 60 years. When I was a kid (65+ years ago), we didn't need to dial the area code and remembered the 3 digit exchange as 'NOrmandy 8' (n o 8 = 668).

          1 Reply Last reply
          0
          • S swampwiz

            Something that bothers me about the smartphone is the screen touchpad in the way that it is never as good as a good old-fashioned button-phone. I was wondering if anyone makes a phone that can be a smartphone as well as have a physical button-pad array.

            I Offline
            I Offline
            itprorh66
            wrote on last edited by
            #23

            I don't have any experience with it, but the Motorola Razor is advertised as a pocket-ready size of a flip phone fused with the intelligence of a modern smartphone.

            1 Reply Last reply
            0
            • D David ONeil

              :laugh: Before my time! I suppose you had to use the old Telephone Exchange Names as well? (I always wondered about them watching shows as a kid. What the heck???)

              The forgotten roots of science | C++ Programming | DWinLib

              O Offline
              O Offline
              obermd
              wrote on last edited by
              #24

              Yep - Murray 4 was the exchange name while I was a kid. Remember, growing up is an option, growing older isn't. :)

              1 Reply Last reply
              0
              • Greg UtasG Greg Utas

                He's in Wales, which used carrier pigeons during his youth. Look up dovecote. My hometown in Canada still had exchange names before I reached my teens.

                Robust Services Core | Software Techniques for Lemmings | Articles

                C Offline
                C Offline
                Choroid
                wrote on last edited by
                #25

                When I moved to Grand Canyon in the 90s I would ask people for their phone number to put in the computer at the pharmacy the response was four digits NO Prefix Better yet one day I had a busy signal all day so at lunch I ask others if their phone was working yep works fine I said mine has had a busy signal all day OH no problem you need to find the Frontier phone guy he is some where driving around the village So after finding him I ask what was wrong he said come with me we went to a building and he ask what my phone number was we walked down an isle of rotary switches he took out a screw driver and raped the switch he said ALL FIXED

                1 Reply Last reply
                0
                • D David ONeil

                  :laugh: Before my time! I suppose you had to use the old Telephone Exchange Names as well? (I always wondered about them watching shows as a kid. What the heck???)

                  The forgotten roots of science | C++ Programming | DWinLib

                  J Offline
                  J Offline
                  jsrjsr
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #26

                  PArkway 2-2522

                  1 Reply Last reply
                  0
                  • S swampwiz

                    Something that bothers me about the smartphone is the screen touchpad in the way that it is never as good as a good old-fashioned button-phone. I was wondering if anyone makes a phone that can be a smartphone as well as have a physical button-pad array.

                    U Offline
                    U Offline
                    User 2893688
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #27

                    Blackberry tried and failed. This is your chance to make it big. Just buy a ticket to Shenzhen, wait for the pandemic to end, fly there, find a garage shop willing to make your idea and LISTO, you're ready to make it big on the SmartFlipPhone market that hasn't been invented yet.

                    1 Reply Last reply
                    0
                    • S swampwiz

                      Something that bothers me about the smartphone is the screen touchpad in the way that it is never as good as a good old-fashioned button-phone. I was wondering if anyone makes a phone that can be a smartphone as well as have a physical button-pad array.

                      M Offline
                      M Offline
                      Martin ISDN
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #28

                      someone who has never used a qwerty smartphone can never appreciate the experience. every now and then i search for new models that have the keyboard, but there is nothing. except those 3 phones from Blackberry: Keyone, Key2 and Key2le, which are bulky and expensive. nothing like the Q10, portable, good build. it doesn't even has to be a quality build, it can be some matte soft plastic like the BB 9720 or the Galaxy S5, it only needs a decent camera and video processing. 2GB and a A55 1.5/2.0GHz will do the job it's all gone to hell. i think of how Samsung used to make their top models S2, S3, S4... chip looking, but tough. now all they do is models for... fashion designers, hair stylists and wealthy wine experts.

                      1 Reply Last reply
                      0
                      Reply
                      • Reply as topic
                      Log in to reply
                      • Oldest to Newest
                      • Newest to Oldest
                      • Most Votes


                      • Login

                      • Don't have an account? Register

                      • Login or register to search.
                      • First post
                        Last post
                      0
                      • Categories
                      • Recent
                      • Tags
                      • Popular
                      • World
                      • Users
                      • Groups