In 2025, most people, including many grade school students, have cell phones. And while cell phones can be used for many positive things such as entertainment and communicating with friends, they can ...

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If you've been around long enough to witness the evolution of cell phones, then you know that clamshell-style flip phones aren't really new. Motorola was the first to release one in the late 1980s ...

Gen Z is putting their smartphones down and trading them for flip phones this summer. Lauren from Alexandria, Virginia, and other Gen Zers across social media are calling it a "flip phone summer." One ...

One performs better overall, but is the price difference enough to matter? Let's compare Samsung's flip phones for 2025. Tyler is a writer under CNET's home energy and utilities category. He came to ...

The new Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 is the first in the clamshell foldable series to finally get full support for Samsung’s DeX desktop mode. DeX transforms the phone into a portable PC when connected to ...

Back when the first cell phones with touchscreens came out, people couldn’t ditch their outdated flip phones fast enough. But now, when the average American spends nearly five-and-a-half hours a day ...