Low-slung flare jeans, extremely-tight headbands and now flip phones; the early ‘00s are back in fashion and we want in.
Earlier this week, footage of Samsung’s latest phone, the Galaxy Z Flip, leaked onto the internet and boy was it interesting. Notably this phone, unlike the one in your pocket, is a flip phone.
Operating with the same dimensions as a Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP, this purple flip phone is transporting us way back to the early noughties, you know, when we didn’t have smartphones.
It’s truly an astonishing sight to see what appears to be a ‘00s phone open up to be an extremely sleek smartphone. And, let’s be real, if Samsung are making it, you can bet big money that flip phones will come back on trend real soon.
So to celebrate this new phone’s existence, we thought we’d bring back all the accessories that we want for when we eventually buy this phone.
Charms
Attached via a tiny piece of string, charms were the way to show your personality. With charms, you could personalise your phone so that it showed off your interests or just made your phone look really cute. Sadly there’s nowhere to put charms on an iPhone, so this trend has faded away. But, we really hope it comes back!
Skins
Skins were everything in flip phones. It was so hard to find the perfect one because you would have to find a skin that showed enough of an image that you could recognise it, but not too much that it gets all cut off because of the numbers. Hence, most of us went with block colours. Given flip phones are coming back with smart screens, I’m not sure if these will make a comeback, but we can sure dream!
Stickers
If we don’t have skins, I bet we can count on stickers to make a comeback. They haven’t gone anywhere per se, but we hope they make a comeback on our phones. How else are going to show some sparkle!
Cases
A phone case for flip-phones was way different to phone cases for smartphones. They were thick and they were clunky; making them unable to fit in one’s pocket. But, given how popular phone cases are with flat phones, we imagine cases will find a way to come back with flip phones. All we hope for is a sleek design with some cute graphics.
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