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5 Most Convincing Reasons an Old-School Flip Phone Is Better Than an iPhone 12, Ranked

Skip the preorder this year, and respect the burner

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2 min readOct 16, 2020

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5. You can actually hang up on someone with authority

Nothing caps off a vicious read quite like that incomparably satisfying clap of cheap Chinese plastic. The red END CALL button could never reach the pettiness levels of the Jurassic-era dumbphone.

4. It’s harder to surveil

Listen, COINTELPRO ain’t ever cease, okay? Even if you’re not on the block like those boys from The Wire, the feds don’t need to know you’re using janky stream sites to binge Love Island from your mobile device. Want to entertain yourself on a flip phone? Just fire up Snake and stay your ass off the grid.

3. It comes with a charger

Unlike the iPhone 12, which will questionably be sold without a charging cable of its own, your throwback alternative comes with a thick-ass brick to plug into a power strip and cover like three sockets. Everything is wireless now…

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