The history of flip phones is a medium-to-long and vaguely intriguing one.
A story that saw the flippy-flappy ones appear from almost nowhere in 1996 to become the most coveted comms device on the planet, then fall into clichéd disrepute in the early 2000s. Many manufacturers continued to produce a wide range of flippers, though, such as the glorious Motorola V3 razr (of which I owed a few) and the Sony Ericsson w508, but eventually, popularity waned in the early 2010s, with the death knell ultimately being sounded by the arrival of the smartphone with its distinctly unflappable touchscreen display.
