Flip Phone without a cover screen

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BaronTankhe
BaronTankhe
Arena Apprentice
Original poster
• 1d ago

Why is everybody adding a coverscreen to a flip phone?

I would like to have a modern fully specced flip phone.Made with a "plastic" body and no cover screen.

Make it from the same material a Nokia 3310 was made off. Do not put a coverscreen on there it can only break.


So basically a flagship phone which you can fold in half where you do not need a case when carying the phone.

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Mariyan Slavov
Mariyan Slavov
Phonearena team
• 1d ago

Constantly folding and unfolding a flip phone gets old quite fast. The ability to glance at messages, notifications and other stuff without the need to open the thing is invaluable. Hence - cover screens.


I concur on the material comment - make it metal or kevlar or something other than glass, please! :))

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Rad Slavov
Rad Slavov
Phonearena team
• 1d ago

Yeah even many old-school flips had those tiny cover screens so you can quickly see what's going on, otherwise you have to open and close it all the time.

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Stanislav Serbezov
Stanislav Serbezov
Phonearena team
• 1d ago

Meanwhile, I'm on the opposite side of this argument, waiting for a thicker phone with a smaller screen that does not unfold. 😂

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TheRealDuckofDeath
TheRealDuckofDeath
Arena Master
• 1d ago
↵BaronTankhe said:

Why is everybody adding a coverscreen to a flip phone?

I would like to have a modern fully specced flip phone.Made with a "plastic" body and no cover screen.

Make it from the same material a Nokia 3310 was made off. Do not put a coverscreen on there it can only break.


So basically a flagship phone which you can fold in half where you do not need a case when carying the phone.

It is indeed strange no one's made a "dirt cheap" foldable yet. Well, Tecno almost tried once. They had a plastic foldable ready for launch. But Samsung saw that and decided to launch its first foldable at a matching price. The big cost on these are still the folding glass, I guess?


The Flip7 FE will supposedly be less than 800 bucks, so maybe next year? A Galaxy M Flip at 400?

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BaronTankhe
BaronTankhe
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• 1d ago
↵RadSlavov said:

Yeah even many old-school flips had those tiny cover screens so you can quickly see what's going on, otherwise you have to open and close it all the time.

Yes I can live with a small simple LCD non-touch display on the front with the same material covering the display as with the 3310. Make a flip phone at least drop proof when closed.

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PhoneCollector
PhoneCollector
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• 5h ago

Useless, even if they existed years ago

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