The flip phone has returned. Again. Alcatel announced the new Alcatel Go Flip 3 and the Alcatel Smartflip, which the company calls the first flip phone to launch in North America and feature both ...

I love voice phones, and so do around 20 million other Americans. While most folks in the US have moved on to smartphones, there's a stable, die-hard market for inexpensive flips that hasn't gone away ...

Flip phones have died out here in the states as of late 2000s — right around the time smartphones were coming into play. Flip phones still have hit a niche market, however, with some people still ...

The Alcatel Go Flip 3 ($99 at Metro)—known by various names on various carriers, including the Alcatel Smartflip at AT&T and Cricket—is the first affordable flip phone to have just enough smartphone ...

At a time when smartphone makers are launching devices with foldable display, Alcatel has launched Go Flip 3 and Smartflip phones that come with the once-trendy flip design. The company claims that ...

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A new flip phone is coming to users in the United States very soon. It will be no ordinary feature flip phone because it can support Google apps and even Google Assistant. TCL, the company that owns ...

Alcatel today announced the Go Flip 3 and SmartFlip, two variants of essentially the same clamshell-style feature phone. The phone runs KaiOS, and for the first time in the US, supports both Google ...

KaiOS has become an interesting third kind of operating system. It’s not quite as dumb as your traditional flip phone, but it’s also not as capable as something like Android. Today, TCL’s Alcatel is ...

This advanced feature phone has Google Assistant voice control, Google Maps, and access to the Kai app store. On the hardware side, it has 4G LTE, a large screen and keypad, 2-megapixel camera, music ...