Everything that’s old is new again---and the flip-phone—the anti-smart phone & the Galapagos like replica of a time when Japan once dominated the world in mobile phones is making a comeback in ...

Adopting a boring phone might not be as simple as reactivating that old flip phone you found in your junk drawer. Many providers will not activate older 2G or 3G devices like this one. You might ...

Tim Heath and Ryan Hickman have ingeniously created an inexpensive robotic prototyping environment using an Android phone, cardboard from ... or repurposed from old toys and gadgets.

Many Japanese accustomed to years of deflation are content with old-style flip-phones offering voice calling, email and in most cases basic Internet services. Japanese electronics companies ...