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"By the end of this article, I will have successfully convinced you that switching to a flip phone is the best thing you can possibly do with your life right now. Or, hey, maybe not. We'll see.\nWhile smartphones are obviously the way of the future, and having one will improve your life in too many ways to name here, a strong case can also be made for flip phones. Trust us.\nSee also: Technostalgia: 20 Misty Memories of Personal Computing\nPerhaps it's only nostalgia, or maybe it's a growing frustration with data costs, new models and broken screens, but below, we've come up with 10 airtight reasons to make the switch to flip phones.\n1. They repel muggers.\nLook at you, standing there with your golden iPhone and your Spotify Premium. If you're worried for your safety, you're doing it wrong. Flip phones literally repel muggers, making them the smartest option for the safety conscious.\n2. They're fairly indestructible.\nImage: lolnein.com\nThe iPhone screen shatters when you drop it 3 feet. A flip phone's screen doesn't shatter if you drop it out of an 11th-story window and a garbage truck runs it over. They're like little mobile wolverines. \n3. You only have to charge them every few days.\nWhat is it about flip phones that keeps them alive for a week at a time? Uranium? The battery in a flip phone lasts longer than the paint on its buttons.\n4. If you lose one, it's not that big of a deal.\nIn the event that your flip phone breaks or gets lost, just pick one up at a corner store on your way home from work. They're in the check-out aisle, next to the Pok\u00E9mon cards and the Fruit Strip zebra gum.\n5. Your job can't reach you via email and ruin your vacation.\nIt's 3 p.m. and you're in tropical paradise, taking a much-deserved annual break from your job: Do you know where your flip phone is?\nOf course you don't \u2014 you probably dropped it in the water four hours ago. It was invented before email, so nobody's going to reach you anyway.\n6. They're small.\nImage: NBC.com\nRemember when this was an actual selling point? Think about all that new pocket space. You'll probably be able to fit Chapstick in there. Imagine the possibilities. \n7. You can still get Facebook, if you're into that.\nIf mobile access to Facebook is really a must-have for you, don't fret \u2014 most flip phones can actually access the network through built-in apps. Sure, it's not going to match the experience you get on, say, an HTC One, but what do you expect?\n8. It comes with low data fees.\nThe older your phone is, the lower your bill is going to be. Imagine what you could do with the money you'd save on data fees? When you go flip phone, the world is your oyster.\n9. No more butt dialing.\nBesides the whole \"flip\" thing inhibiting the possibility of butt dialing, the sheer number of buttons you need to press in order to make a call or send a text message is insane. It'll never happen.\n10. Your thumbs will get ripped.\nImage: Tumblr, ISkipAHeartbeat\nSure, it might take you somewhere in the ballpark of half an hour to send a few short paragraphs of text, but imagine the looks you'll get when people see your thumbs' abs. It's almost beach season. Think about it.\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments.\nImage: Flickr, Jonathan McPherskesen"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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