I was still rocking with my Motorola flip phone as a backup to my blackberry style phone until they killed off 2G networks. Almost bought a dead one on Ebay to replace the cracked casing when they pulled the plug. Tracfone sent me a LG flipper as a free replacement, but I can’t do the one handed Captain Kirk Communicator Flip™ with it. I’ve heard of a similar model to my old phone that adds a touchscreen, but it only seems to have materialized in Europe. I’m lousy with touchscreens, but can cope if I use a stylus.

My main phone is losing signal way too often these days, and not just in the cellular black hole that seems to hover over my house. Old and new flippers never had this problem. I’d be content with just a flipper except texting is a pain in the ass without a full keypad.