Why the fuck do all anime characters have flip phones? Seriously, its fucking 2015 and every single one of these niggas has one
>>119274906
Does that look like an anime from 2015 to you?
>>119274906
Flip phones were the smartphones before smartphones were hip.
>>119274948
That's not the point. Even anime from 2014 had flip phones
Why do nips email instead of text?
>>119274987
The Japanese prefer flip phones.
>>119274987
Well then why didn't you use a picture from one of those?
>>119274906
Touch screen phones in anime are becoming more common, they're just behind the times a few years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_mobile_phone_culture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_syndrome
Most anime are adaptations and many of those adaptations are of things which were written several years ago. It creates a sort of time lag in technology. Smart phones will be common place in anime a few years from now when we start getting adaptations of things written recently.
>>119274906
You see smart phones more often now.
their writing system with smartphones is pretty shitty and hard for some, flip phones are more ''easy''.
>>119274987
Do you even flip?
Flip phones are better than shitty smudgy touchscreens
>>119275014
Cheaper. Our phones are slowly being phased to IP as well.
>>119275043
Because I literally just typed in "anime flip phone" and that was the first one to come up
>>119274987
That was likely an adaptation WRITTEN WHILE PEOPLE WERE STILL USING FLIP PHONES.
>>119275081
Flip phones are still very popular in Japan. Slate phones are taking off but there are at least varieties of Android flip phones available too.
And from what I have seen the reason the Japanese prefer the flip phones is because they must drop them all the time. Everyone seemed to have a cracked screen on their iPhone/slate over there.
>>119275189
>>119275014
Text messages are just a version of email anyway.
Because Apple is a western company
>>119274906
>not realizing the superiority of smart flip phones
>2015
>>119274906
Flip phones are great.
if it wasn't for easy internet browsing, i'd go back to them.
>>119275442
In what way are they superior
>>119275672
No need for screen protector
Physical keypad
Literally everything else in a slate phone can be in it
Positional/rotateable screen so if you want to watch something you can just put the phone down without having to prop it up or hunch over it
Japanese were still commonly using flip phones up until only like 2-3 years ago. So, many anime 2012 and prior still had a lot of them. Given that a lot of adaptations are made from material written in the late 2000s and such the phones are also older there too. It seems they mostly use iPhones these days.
The other thing is that Japan has its phone manufacturers that basically only sell within their country - Docomo, Fujitsu etc, and many of these are smartphone-like in features and can have other oddities Japanese phones have had forever such as TV tuners etc. Hell they have flip phones that run Android; they're basically hybrids.
Lastly a ton of Japan = really old people. They stick with what they know and they've been using flip phones for like 20 years and so they can't even fathom trying to learn something else. Hence the culture kind of pervades. They are also aware that most of the world has moved on; new flip phones there are called gala-style, short for galapagos, referring to the closed-off nature of Japan and how such phones would not sell outside of it.
>>119275795
>Physical keypad
Why did the phone companies abandon this? In what way is a touch screen keyboard superior to a physical one.
>>119275672
>>119274906
>someone is actually asking this
Oh for the more enlightened times when /a/ reminisced about flip phones, and how it was unfair that the nips had them still.
OP, This is a bad example.
This picture is from Haganai, and both of these characters are specifically shown to be incompetent with technology. They're going crazy over getting their first phone contacts and sending their first text messages, a touchscreen phone would be too much for either of them to handle.
>>119274987
Eh, anime are slowly transitioning to smartphones. Oregairu and Parasyte come to mind.
>>119275795
Screen protectors are just consumerist garbage. Don't drop your phone and don't put your phone in the same pocket as your screen and you'll never get a scratch.
>>119275922
Because large screens and keypads don't really go together outside flip phones.
Also, because Apple was successful.
I wish everyone still used flip phones. Real buttons are great and they just look more aesthetically pleasing than a brick that you have to hug to the side of your face.
All it's done is increase ass-dialing and made everyone even more tethered to shallow social media than they were before.
>>119276013
>don't put your phone in the same pocket as your screen
O-okay.Actually, it is the gorilla glass that is consumerist garbage. I have not exposed my iPod to anything that should be hard enough to scratch the screen and yet it still has gained scratches.
no one has posted a picture of an anime person with a smart phone
>>119276115
You had the opportunity and you wasted it.
You are partly to blame.
>>119274987
The majority of the Japanese populace use flip phones. Touchscreen phones and other smart phones are more commonly associated with higher level business management.
![[HorribleSubs] Tsukimonogatari - (01-04) [720p].mkv_snapshot_00.54.52_[2015.01.03_18.12.07].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/mSjwkuv.jpg "[HorribleSubs] Tsukimonogatari - (01-04) [720p].mkv_snapshot_00.54.52_[2015.01.03_18.12.07].jpg")
>>119276115
WOW THAT WAS SO HARD
>>119274987
Not that many actually.
2013 yeah, but smart phones are finally starting to kill Japanese kami flip phones. SeHaGaGa even had Mega Drive bitching about it.
>>119276062
>Real buttons are great and they just look more aesthetically pleasing
Your opinion is wrong.
>brick that you have to hug to the side of your face
As opposed to a brick you have to hug to the side of your face?
>increase ass-dialing
Completely the opposite.
>made everyone even more tethered to shallow social media
It was inevitible, but phones don't perpetuate social media.
>>119276115
Are you shitting me? iPhones and other smartphones have been appearing more and more. Even the characters in SAO had smartphones
I wish I had one. I miss flipping mine.
Smart phones are boring as hell.
>>119276370
>Your opinion is wrong.
No, yours is.
>>119276062
>a brick that you have to hug to the side of your face
Ass dialing isn't an issue, but the risk of accidentally ending a call on a smartphone means you end up having to hold the phone in some awkward position.
Fuck these pieces of shit, it's a shame that phones have turned into toys that barely serve the initial intended purpose.
>>119276397
>watcing SAO
>>119276436
>Fuck these pieces of shit, it's a shame that phones have turned into toys that barely serve the initial intended purpose.
It's the same way in Japan, their phones are basically just smart phones that you can flip
>>119276370
>phones don't perpetuate social media.
People can post and tweet things on their phone while they're out in public with friends and don't have to wait until they get home. How does this not perpetuate social media?
2014 anime with flip phones.
Flip phones have infrared so MC-kun can send his phone number to more bitches at once.
>>119276115
Here's another from a few years back.
Because for some reason japan is in some sort of unholy love affair with flip phones and so the flip phones in japan are more powerful/advance to the flip phones you would find in the west. (Fucking shit is expensive too, a decent flip phone in japan is around the same price as a decent to high end touch screen phone where i am from)
My phone is even older than the flip phone generation.
Its still one of those things that can only call people and play a very few shitty games.
;_;
![[HorribleSubs] Sword Art Online II - 12 [720p].mkv_snapshot_15.38_[2014.12.30_15.45.31].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/k1B2bZo.jpg "[HorribleSubs] Sword Art Online II - 12 [720p].mkv_snapshot_15.38_[2014.12.30_15.45.31].jpg")
While SOA might be utter shit, they at least got this right.
8man has a smartphone
Shirobako has alot of them too
Its getting there op, don't you worry
>>119276896
post pic so I can nostalgia
>>119277127I have nothing in my apartment to take a photo with
>>119277208
Fine then, faggot, way to ruin my day, fuck you, all I wanted was a fucking picture for nostalgia.
>>119276563
His statement was wrong, but he is also right.
Phones were increasing their web capabilities steadily before smartphones took off, in Japan the majority of web users used their phones for it which is why their Internet is so ass backwards in design, so the drive towards shallow social media users was already there, it just leaped when phones became an easy platform to develop for as they came closer to being standard computers.
>>119276436
>but the risk of accidentally ending a call on a smartphone means you end up having to hold the phone in some awkward position.
My phone turns off the screen when you hold it to your head during a call so you won't accidentally press any buttons.
And it isn't even a new phone, it is a Galaxy Note 1.
>>119276563
This.
And it's killing human interactions, or at least, what's left of it.
>>119277304
not me, I understand anon
>>119277304
you want some nostalgia?
>implying this wasn't and isn't the hypest shit
>>119274906
I do have a flip phone.
>>119277304
Fine then I got some image of google.
This is what it looks like. I dont know if it is the exact model but yeah.
>>119274906
I was watching Wolf Girl and Dark Prince and this nigga had both a flippy phone and a smart phone! I was like, holy fuck.
>>119277359
I can't even eat dinner with my 31 year old brother, his wife, and my mother without one of those assholes pulling out their phone to check how many likes they got on the instagram they took of the meal that's right in front of them. Next year I'm going to their house and just going to set up my computer at the table so I can watch my Chinese cartoons.
I hate smartphones.
>>119277514
Holy shit that was the greatest thing when it first came out. Everyone had one of those
>>119277514
>Flip-phones
Fucking new fags, bet you even get polyphonic ringtones.
>>119277514
>you'll never hold it up to your wrist to make a terrible joke for the 1000th time ever again.
>>119277514
>you will never use a modernized version of this phone
;-; fuck you java, fuck you android, fuck you laggy imprecise touch-screen-everywhere.
>>119277607
Holy fuck, i remember playing Snake on one of those things. Shit was so awesome
>>119275081
>behind the times
Not sure if trolling or genuinely ignorant. Flip keitai are by far the most popular there but they are true smartphones, not the obsolete shit we used a decade ago.
Go ahead, try to find a flip keitai without a touchscreen.
Everyone saying one isn't a 'real' smartphone is retarded or shitposting. Of course they have touchscreen only phones but the flip styles are more popular because of reasons already mentioned here.
I'd have one too if I weren't fucking broke. Why be stuck with something like a Moto X when I could have the best of both worlds instead?
>>119276436
Touchscreen only phones aren't perfect but you're fucking up hard if you hang up a call just talking normally. All modern phones turn off the screen quickly after taking a call just to avoid this.
>/a/ confirming its status as the one guy in the corner watching his malaysian transcripts in the corner
>>119277623
THIS THIS THIS.
God fucking Jesus Christ I hate smartphones so much. I wish they'd never goddamned been developed or sold.
If you wanna go fuck around the internet in my company so badly, then why are you even talking to me in the first place, cunt?
>>119275014
this one is actually because of unicode space limits for japanese characters
>>119277746
The funny thing about that pictured phone was that it was underpowered and the interface was laggy.
>>119277808
Incorrect, try again.
>>119277746
>Flip keitai
can I get one for t mobile?
Flip phones are becoming less popular in Japan for sure, but as many have said - the flip phones they do have are pretty forward thinking. I remember seeing one years ago that had a stereoscopic 3D screen which blew my mind considering the first HTCs were coming out at this point in the west.
I think a lot of it in anime is also down to the same reasons Hollywood movies still use the classic 'ring ring' ringtones when they show even a modern phone - it's there as an illustration that a phone is ringing.
>>119274906
because fuck you, that's why. I'd be using one too if the market isn't saturated with boring slab phones.
also >>>/g/
The funniest thing about smatphone's cultural influence is that every future setting even hundreds of years from now all has controls that work like an iphone.
I can't help but think of how retarded and dated it's all going to look a few decades now when we move on from it to something far easier and practical.
Never had one but I got an iphone 5 for free from workand I get all my shit payed too.
>>119277607
Old Nokias were solid as fuck.
>>119274906
My coworker has flip phone.
>mfw I have a Microsoft Phone
God they're so fucking bad holy shit
>>119277623
I don't even into social media but this pisses me off too.
If I can deign to leave my room and subject myself to normalfag socialization, you can sure as shit go without fuckbook for an hour or two.
I spend the vast majority of my waking hours staring at a screen but even I won't fuck around with my phone unless it's relevant to the conversation.
>>119277607
HEY my phone's shit too!
>>119277746
>screen turns off automatically when taking a call
I'll never find a phone that will do this when I crane my head to talk without hands. Aka the only time you would ever accidentally hit the end call button.
>>119276115
>>119278004
>2 keyboards/10
Would use.
>>119278004
I use something real similar, but don't use the keyboard more than half the time.
I typically text with one hand / without looking at the phone. I fucking love buttons.
>>119277814
It's the only keitai pic I had saved. The fact remains that despite the form factor, Japanese phones are far superior (FOLDED 1000 TIMES) than western ones. Except maybe IR transceivers. That shit was old 15 years ago. No clue why they still include them on phones that have Bluetooth and NFC.
I presume it's mainly dumbass burgerlanders assuming anything that resembles a flip phone is outdated shit.
>>119278071
Nigga get a fucking bluetooth or use the speaker function.
>>119277623
My grandparents thought I was a "very polite young [redacted]" solely because I managed to eat a meal with them without once looking at my damn phone. Of course I have a flip phone (with a miserly pay-as-you-go plan to boot since I never use the thing), so it wasn't a challenge for me; they were just impressed by it. </blogshit>
>>119278071
It generally happens 5-10s after taking a call. Just press the damn power button if you're doing that immediately.
Makes no sense blaming the phone for a minor inconvenience in one specific situation where you can easily avert the problem by pressing 1 button.
>>119278204
Or this if you can't be assed to press a button once per call.
>>119278111
I'm a giant whore for more buttons.
>>119274906
>2 years until the next haganai anime
meh
Smartphones took over in the past couple of years. Take a look at a product list from a Japanese phone provider:
http://www.softbank.jp/mobile/products/list/?category=category1
Huge selection of smartphones, and just a few 3g flip-phones for holdouts.
The only advantage to smart phones is that I can browse /a/ when I'm not at home
![char_63235[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/NT5OyXy.jpg "char_63235[1].jpg")
>>119277720
>>119277959
You could say you were playing solid snake
>>119278306
God I hope not.
>>119276855
>A few years back
It feels like that was a few seasons ago.
>>119278306
Was there a confirmation of this somewhere?
>>119278297
I'm the same way, at least after owning a shitty touchscreen only for a year.I don't even know why I own it, it's not like I get any use out of it.
>>119278123
IR is a completely no setup form of communication you can quickly use to transfer small amounts of data via direct line of sight, so relatively secure.
You can literally just point your phone at another persons phone and press a button and they get your phone number, email address, whatever you are sending them.
In comparison with Bluetooth and NFC which both require some steps before you get to the process of sending the data.
There is also the fact that you can program the IR transmitter to work for things like your TV or other applications which have an IR receiver in them.
>>119278071
Get a fucking phone with a fucking light sensor next to the speaker like every fucking Samsung phone because that is what it is fucking there for. To detect that your fucking fat head is blocking light.
>>119274906
>Amagi brilliant park
>Yuuki yuuna
Smartphones weren't even popular until after 2008
we're currently in a transition where anime characters are starting to use smartphones exclusively.
>>119276936
Isn't SAO set in 2025 or something? By that time every Jap will have a smartphone.
>>119277746
Jesus christ that interface looks like something from a nightmare.
>>119278211
If any other poorfags or people here that don't use a phone a lot want a smartphone, get the LG Ultimate 2 from QVC.
Prepaid with triple-minutes (buy $60 card, get 180), and solid specs for $140, with like $80 worth of minutes included.
Now I'm also always on my phone playingg Puzzle and Waifu.
>>119278430
>>119278270
You shits this you have all the answers. Locking the screen doesn't help because it still activates the light sensor/front camera to detect if you face is on it. Yet that shit still thinks it's going in and out of light because my head isn't that fat, or my ear isn't that big. So it's still turning on and shutting of my calls.
>bluetooth
>Buy more shit!
>speaker
I ain't screaming into the direction of my phone.
The shit just don't work sometimes. Don't be such faggots about it.
>>119278348
As in you want it sooner, or never?
>>119278377
Just judging by the pace of the LNs. They've slowed to 1 per year.
Because flip phones are superior.
>more compact when folded but big enough when open
>screen is protected when not in use
>less bullshit
>no annoying gross touchscreen
>>119278685
Clearly your head is empty and that is letting light through.
>>119278685
You are doing something seriously wrong if your screen magically turns back on after you press the power button.
>>119278707
Never, unless it's anime original, the story becomes complete trash in the novels.
![[HorribleSubs] Locodol - 02 [1080p].mkv_snapshot_14.23_[2014.07.18_23.55.18].png](https://i.imgur.com/fJHu6O1.png "[HorribleSubs] Locodol - 02 [1080p].mkv_snapshot_14.23_[2014.07.18_23.55.18].png")
>>119274987
ALL of them?
>>119278810Do we get Yozora x Sena? Just a yes or no, please
>>119278859
They becomefriends.
>>119277746
>NERV smartphone
Fuck, I'd give my shekels for that.
>>119277563
Are you Pomf from O'gaming?
>>119278624
180 minutes for $60 or $180 worth of minutes for $60? I pay IIRC $80 for something like 2000 minutes/texts, and the minutes don't expire for a year. Re-upped last summer with about $5 unused from the summer of 2013.
My flip-phone is an LG, can't remember the model, though.
>>119277975
I know your pain anon. Bought a 520 an year ago because it was the best selling WP phone, I regret it every day.
>>119278926
If I ever feel the need to upgrade to a smartphone, I'll have to find a way to get a flip-phone version over here in the states.
>>119278972
It's a Tracfone. $80 for 1200 minutes/text/3G MB and a year of service. That's 1200 each btw.
Anybody else have one of these? That sound it made when you pressed the buttons...
>>119278994
The 520 is actually the best thing you could get for the price back then.
It's the go-to phone for poorfags who can't even afford a Moto G.
It's extremely satisfying hanging up a call by closing a flip phone.
Smartphones have such an awkward way to hang up.
>>119275345
>Text messages are just a version of email anyway.
Not even close.
I'm a little sad that we weren't a part of the Japanese adoption of email as a texting medium. That'd be so much easier than fucking around with phone numbers all the time.
>>119279447
When we finally replaced the corded wall phone with wireless phones at home (1-3 years ago?) it took half the fun out of telemarketers.
>>119277959
Early Nokias were designed by engineers instead of design artists.
>>119279747
Bullshit. Nokia actually had decent aesthetics and great personality.
If you want to see shit designed by engineers, look at samsung.
>>119278964
No. I'm the hermit.
>>119279923
Go ahead and find me designer who actually designed this layout.
>>119274906
Because you can actually press the fucking buttons without using a needle. It's simply a better design, functionality before form. It also doesn't have the stupid problem of buttons/screen being pressed while it's in your pocket making random calls, you won't believe how many times I've picked up the phone to hear pants rustling.
anybody remember this beast?
>>119279539
Worse, it's an hack that equivalent to soda at a fast food joint: a obscene money maker.
>>119280104
There's a 7 year gap between those two phones, you nit
>>119274906
I have a Nokia 130 m8.
>>119281035
You should read thread first. Or are you waitingdubs
>>119279539
Sorry but they actually are. You can see it in how with some network operators you can send email directly to a phone as a text message by mailing it to the phone number @network operator domain.
The relationship with email is just obscured by character limits, to fit within a single cell response packet, number instead of full address (in Japan you get a full address linked to your number, they are literally just using text messaging addressed to email addresses instead of numbers) and formatting limitations, which leads into the character limit.
>>119281001
Not quite. While the messages are indeed piggybacking on normal cell traffic it is still added traffic through the network. There are still cases of spam or chain text messages that get out of hand and cause congestion other disruption in the network and so it is of a cost to the network operator to manage it. That's aside from when there is a disaster or something which bring s the network into such a gridlock that not even text messages get through.
>>119281310
Major thing between email and SMS is that operator can send SMS to ANY or EVERY phone on their BTS area. That's base of emergency SMS.
In Japan you literally make subscribe deal with operator which rent you phone. Subscribe deal requires all the information what operator want from you. Unlike in EU where you can buy any phone and decide which operator you want to subscribe.
>>119281310
>Sorry but they actually are. You can see it in how with some network operators you can send email directly to a phone as a text message by mailing it to the phone number @network operator domain.
Uh, no, that because they set up an email server that converts emails to SMS messages. You can't just email a text message to a phone.
>>119280586
tfw no juiz
![Haganai Ep.07 - My Cell Phone Doesn`t Get Many Calls (720).mkv_snapshot_13.19_[2015.01.03_20.33.26].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/LastXFj.jpg "Haganai Ep.07 - My Cell Phone Doesn`t Get Many Calls (720).mkv_snapshot_13.19_[2015.01.03_20.33.26].jpg")
>>119281030
It's dangerous to post that, take this!
>>119282726
Just what kind of release did you get to get file names like this?
>>119283105
I got this one from a sign-up to use site called http://animetorrents.me/
It's good for getting the rare good dual audio series with 720p quality but small file sizes. My Haganai episodes are about 100MB each.
>>119283701
>getting dual audio
>getting re-encoded releases
Congrats for being an idiot.
I miss flip phones.
>dat satisfying click when you open and close
>being able to answer a call just by flipping it open
>that kawaii little screen on the front
Why even live?
>>119283783
What's wrong with saving space on file size, and keeping dual audio files?
My copy of Haganai has objectively more content while taking up objectively less space, how is that bad?
>>119283894
In what occasion do you need to listen to the dub?
>>119283936
When I'm working on a car or multitasking I can't look at the screen, but being able to hear the show lets me follow along just fine, especially if I've already watched it in the original language.
>>119283894
>>119283701
Nice bait.
>Tfw it would have cost more to get an old phone when my Envy 3 died
>tfw 1 dollar upgrade to a smartphone
I feel like I sold out.
I mean, being able to shitpost on the move is nice, but this shitty iPhone feels like it'll break if I type on it too hard.
Least I got a 5c instead of a 6.
>>119283936
There's nothing wrong with being able to hear an alternate version of a joke or pun if you don't understand the Japanese cultural reference, or just really love a specific joke and want to see how the dub translated it.
>>119284013
Anime is not fucking music and isn't meant to be in the background while you do something else, it's like listening to live sport reporting on radio without watching the game, what's the point?
>>119284112
Get the fuck out.
>>119284058
Oh, sorry, last phone was a Cosmos 2
I just preferred the Envy when I had that.
>>119276302
/thread
Elevens love their flip phones though many recent works have smartphones. Most of these smartphones tend to look like iPhones but sometimes you find androids and other models as well.
>>119284240
Ok, I'll leave and never return, and continue enjoying anime my own way.
I'm pretty sure everyone had touch screen phones in this show but I only seem to have cute pictures of Noel saved...
>>119284661
How was that show, anyway? It seems to have dropped off the radar.
>>119277940
I think the funniest thing is, if you go back and watch old sci-fi anime or live action, they still look more futuristic and complex than appleshit aesthetics sci-fi has now despite being older.
>>119284784
Since when is being complex a good thing? People are dumb.
Flip > Bricks > Slide > Smartphones
>>119284849
smart > brick > slide > flip
this isn't even up for debate.
>>119284849
Smartphones are brick.
Slide phones are universally the worst because the fucking screen cable always break after a short amount of time.
>>119284991
I had a slide phone that lasted 6 years before it was stolen
>>119284746
It got pretty boring, but atleast the ending was satisfying.
>>119277514
I used to have a black one with a blue glow-in-the-dark Motorola logo. Good times.
>>119285135
More boring than Hyouka?
>>119276115
>>119285545
>hyouka
>boring
>>119285682
I'll take that as a "yes"
>>119277772
>You only hate smartphones because they remind you of how old and worthless you are.
I have a few Docomo and Softbank flip phones. They're nice to look at, but a real fucking nightmare to use sometimes.
>>119285649
Thinking about it, I'd bet smartphones have taken a while to show up in anime because of the lag inherent in waiting for enough manga to be made.
>>119285741
Either that or how they have no facebook friends.
>>119277623
I thought it was supposed to be proper etiquette to pay attention to your dinner host or other people speaking, and that was obvious that you should leave your texting to some other time. Guess not.
>>119286288
It is, unless you're stuck having dinner with some loathsome impossible sperglord.
>>119282671
I did do that once with a picture I wanted on my phone (I'm using some cheapass offbrand carrier and my phone requires a verizon account to interface with my computer). I'd sent a picture from phone to email, and I replied to that email with the picture I wanted on my phone.
>>119283823
I miss my old flip phone. It had spring loaded hinge, and a button on the right side of the hinge that you pressed to spring the phone open. It was like a switchblade phone.
>>119286475
I fucking loved this thing.
>>119274906
And i retur the question asking why every fuckinbg one has a smartphone these day.
People look so idiotic walkin with those thing in their hands and spending the entire day string at theirs screens
>>119286903
/a/non you're drunk, go to bed.
>>119286800
Eehh. the screen not folding in means it's still easy to damage, but being able to hold the screen in the sideways position in the middle would be useful for a smart phone designed like that; more horizontal space for web browsing.
>>119286903
You seem to be typing on one right now.
