Unless you've been living under a rock, it's pretty clear the flip phone has been replaced by large slabs of touchscreen glass.
But LG isn't willing to let go just yet. The company announced the Gentle, a flip phone that runs the latest Android 5.1 Lollipop, on Monday.
Smartphones have largely replaced flip phones because they are better computing devices with big touchscreens that are easier to use, have better cameras, connect to the full Internet and feature lots of apps.
But smartphones have become so large that they don't fit in your pocket anymore, and are thus difficult to use with one hand.
The Gentle is a compromise of sorts, and isn't a terrible idea. It has the pocketable size of a traditional flip phone and the necessities only a smartphone OS can provide. It sounds like a useful device for kids and seniors, who both need the tactility of physical keypads and durability of a clamshell design that protects the screen.
The 4G LTE-equipped phone has a 3.2-inch (480 x 320 resolution) display, 1.1GHz quad-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 3-megapixel camera and 4GB of internal storage (expandable via microSD card). By today's standards, the tech specs are terribly outdated.
The silver lining: The Gentle runs Android apps, in whatever limited capacity, and its 1,700 milliamp-hour (mAh) battery will likely last for days since the phone doesn't guzzle power from tons of pixels and 3D games.
The Gentle will be available in Korea for 20 million won (about $171). Unless it sales numbers are off the charts, there's almost no chance it will make it to territories outside of Asia (flip phone sales actually increased in places like Japan for the first time in seven years).