{"id":19777,"date":"2025-08-15T14:38:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/return-of-the-flip-phone-does-apples-new-foldable-iphone-signal-a-new-era-in-design\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T14:38:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:38:20","slug":"return-of-the-flip-phone-does-apples-new-foldable-iphone-signal-a-new-era-in-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/return-of-the-flip-phone-does-apples-new-foldable-iphone-signal-a-new-era-in-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of the flip phone: does Apple\u2019s new foldable iPhone signal a new era in design?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s thought the product may resemble Samsung\u2019s clamshell-style Flip model, or its Fold, more like a foldable iPad<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2005, nothing felt more high-powered and sophisticated than ending a call by snapping shut a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2024\/jan\/26\/flip-phone-dumbphone\">clamshell flip phone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, two decades since they hit peak popularity, they\u2019re back \u2013 with Apple rumoured to be working on its first ever flip phone.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/aug\/15\/return-of-the-flip-phone-does-apples-new-foldable-iphone-signal-a-new-era-in-design\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5d0922e92f9f4736e41cb7081ee256f82435ac1d\/251_213_2639_2111\/master\/2639.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=884d50c5bc27cd0f2a14e28258c1b356\" title=\"Return of the flip phone: does Apple\u2019s new foldable iPhone signal a new era in design?\" \/>It\u2019s thought the product may resemble Samsung\u2019s clamshell-style Flip model, or its Fold, more like a foldable iPad<br \/>\nBack in 2005, nothing felt more high-powered and sophisticated than ending a call by snapping shut a clamshell flip phone.<br \/>\nNow, two decades since they hit peak popularity, they\u2019re back \u2013 with Apple rumoured to be working on its first ever flip phone. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s thought the product may resemble Samsung\u2019s clamshell-style Flip model, or its Fold, more like a foldable iPad Back in 2005, nothing felt more high-powered and sophisticated than ending a call by snapping shut a clamshell flip phone. Now, two decades since they hit peak popularity, they\u2019re back \u2013 with Apple rumoured to be working &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/return-of-the-flip-phone-does-apples-new-foldable-iphone-signal-a-new-era-in-design\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Return of the flip phone: does Apple\u2019s new foldable iPhone signal a new era in design?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19777"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}