Cellular phones topics - Re: Why flip-phones?

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Re: Why flip-phones?

Harvey Van Sickle

2005-05-19, 11:52 am

On 04 May 2005, Ablang wrote

> I'm just wondering why it is that people in general seem to
> prefer flip-phones over anything else, hence maybe why some people
> don't like Nokia phones?
>
> I have two theories on why the flip-phones preference.
>
> 1. People don't like to lock & unlock their phones (pressing menu
> + * buttons)
>
> 2. People feel that they are better heard and spoken with the flip
> phone because the mouth piece & ear pieces are apparently closer
> to where they are supposed to be, whereas my Nokia phone sometimes
> people have a hard time hearing me & vice versa.

Not everybody's hot on them....I dislike the need to use two hands to
open them up, and have avoided them for that reason.

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Cheers,
Harvey

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