I miss them

Still rocking one 😎

Edit/Bonus: Watching DS9 on a flip phone, as far away from the concept of god as possible:

What??

This is amazing.
- Very low-end Android phone I dumbed down for a "30 day dumbphone challenge" (wanted to be able to re-purpose it / un-dumb it afterward). Ended up liking it so much, I stuck with it as my daily driver.
Have you included the chirp as your notifications?
- Still using Voyager door chime: https://www.trekcore.com/audio/doors/voy_door_chime.mp3
  
  If/when I tire of that, I'm absolutely going to switch to the communicator chirp. Sadly, I haven't found a way to play a sound when I flip it open.
- I had a comm badge chirp for a long time. Everyone that heard it always asked if my phone was broken lol
Profile pic checks out 😉
Neat!
This is great. Is there a landscape mode option for playing video? You could get a few more pixels in.
- Yeah, there is. Was just easier to photograph in portrait.

If they ever come out with retro flip phones I'm gonna be like Jadzia in the 2260s:

All this talk about flip phones, I almost forgot bag phones existed:
- My dad had one of those. My mum decided it was dirty one day and put it in the washing machine.
- That reminds me of satchel charges from Red Faction.
  
  Actually, looked it up and found it didn't resemble what I remembered (and was called the "remote charge" in the first game of the series): https://redfactionwiki.com/wiki/Remote_Charge
  
  I remembered a green bag with an antenna sticking out of the top, very mildly visually reminiscent of your photo. Wonder what game that was.

2001 fans when the iPad was released.

Eating slop and watching slop. Kubrick was a visionary.
- A prophet actually.

I mean, they knew. They named it the Star TAC after all.

"You want to report by phone then, don't you?" Alan took a compact packet about six inches square from a holster attached to her belt and handed it to Wilma.

So far as I could see, it had no special receiver for the ear. Wilma merely threw back a lid, as though she were opening a book, and began to talk. The voice that came back from the machine was as audible as her own.

- Armageddon - 2419AD, Philip Francis Nowlan, 1928

https://sunbeamwireless.com/

Been rocking this for over a year

Nice. https://support.sunbeamwireless.com/support/solutions/articles/154000077312-data-privacy
Nice. I didn't even see those models when I was looking for an actual dumbphone. All the ones I saw were running KaiOS. My main requirement for a dumb phone was hotspot which is mostly a standard feature these days.
Huh. I would love this.

But can I without Signal, WhatsApp & Co?
- Same here. I like the idel of a phone with no social media, but I still want to be able to communicate directly with people.

I have to admit, it was satisfying flipping it open and closed...

you can still get dumb flipphones, they usually market them as grandparent models.

My dad got one of the original Startac flip phones and it was the coolest thing ever in 90s. One of the first “the future is now” kinda things I experienced as a child.

Ya'll need some Mr. Mobile in your lives...

Mr. Mobile

When Phones Were Fun

And stay mobile my friends.

Motorola razor 2024 to bridge

Nothing has been as cool as the Matrix' Nokia 8110 with the spring loaded slider. To this day.

Cram all the computing power of a modern phone into something other than the same, nerd ass, actuary in a brown suit looking candy bar phones.

I want to call out the lines from Those Old Scientists when the Pike crew was lamenting the loss of the flip top communicators (replaced by badges you can tap that the Cerritos crew had). "But flipping then open is the best part!"