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January 6[edit]

In your country, what month did flip phones surpass landlines phones, and what month did smartphone subscriptions surpass flip phones?[edit]

Even though I'm from USA I'm still curious to see the figures from countries around the world, and Googling seems to point to incomplete sources, so hoping people know the reliable source for their country. I feel like every carrier knows the answer to the 2nd question, but do carriers make that information public, or proprietary? 67.165.185.178 (talk) 13:41, 6 January 2023 (UTC).[reply]

I don't know the answer but I doubt the number of flip phones ever exceeeded the number of landline phones in the UK. I've never even seen a flip phone over here except in the movies. Shantavira|^{feed me} 18:06, 6 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Among mobile phones, flip phones and smartphones do not form a dichotomy. Popular models in Europe like the Nokia 1011 and its successors were neither. Their first model with a clamshell form factor may have been the Nokia 6101. --Lambiam 23:01, 6 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It should also be noted that there are modern "flip phones" with similar form factors that are also SmartPhones. See, for example Samsung Galaxy Z series. --Jayron 32 15:47, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]