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'Leaks' Show Apple Might Be Bringing Back Flip Phones

'Leaks' Show Apple Might Be Bringing Back Flip Phones

Please God let it be true.

Mark McGowan

Mark McGowan

The year is 2003. You're a young, spotty no mark. Your constant stream of C and D grades and your teachers calling you by someone else's name confirm your place as a skid mark on society. Homer Simpson is your best friend on Simpsons Hit & Run because you're yet to hit puberty and your mates are slowly cracking their way through their parents AOL dial-up and conquering internet porn, but you're yet to learn what an areola is. But then, one dim Christmas morning, you unwrap a present to find that your parents have bought you a Motorola Razr V3. All of a sudden, you're the fucking man.

The shame is that flip phones were a short-lived phenomenon, left to rot with the Nokia N-Gage, Sony Ericsson W810 and Samsung D500. The art of pulling out our mobiles and flipping them open in one swift motion, followed by a sharp 'hello', was a God given testosterone filled right of expression. Something that we're now being denied.

There's a chance, however, those days could come back.

Next year is the tenth anniversary of the iPhone, and Apple has hinted in the past that the date will bring a few surprises. It's believed that the recent iPhone 7 didn't see many changes from its predecessor because they're waiting for next September to bring out the big guns.

'Leaked' patent photos seem to show that a design for an Apple flip phone is in the pipeline.

The pending patent is for a "electronic devices with carbon nanotube printed circuits," but rather disappointingly shows a landscape flip. If you've got one of those silly cases that attempts to turn your mobile into some kind of book/wallet hybrid, then you know how annoying it is.

The summary says: "Carbon nanotubes may be patterned to form carbon nanotube signal paths on the substrates. The signal paths may resist cracking when bent. A bent portion of a carbon nanotube signal path may be formed in a portion of a flexible substrate that traverses a hinge or other flexible portion of an electronic device," which is an unbelievable amount of bullshit none of us care about.

Basically, Apple, give us flip phones. None of this landscape garbage, and none of this 1,873GB storage, not even a dual lens double XL bacon cheeseburger camera. Just give us the flip, lads.

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Topics: Apple, iPhone