Verizon -- like pretty much any North American carrier -- has an amazing propensity for offering countless, virtually anonymous flips from LG and Samsung. Yes, granted, they seem to be better at catering to the specific "needs" of Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile more than any other manufacturer -- and for many customers, it's hard to argue with a decent-looking phone that costs a few bucks on contract -- but you'd think they'd be able to keep these handsets in the lineup for literally years on end without a single change. Alas, PhoneArena seems to have the inside line on a couple new ones for Big Red that do little to move the low-end needle, including this VX5600 Accolade (pictured) whose headline features are a 1.3 megapixel cam and Bluetooth support. There's apparently a second flip in the pipeline called the "Clout" that should be fixing to replace the year-old
VX8360, so yeah, nothing that's going knock your socks off in this batch of rumors. Hey, they can't
all be Snapdragon-powered beasts with WVGA displays, right?
posted February 3rd 2010 12:37PM
This phone isn't winning no accolades for sure except for it's name
I really like the LG & Samsung flip phones. They are always nice solid devices, that really last the full 2-year contract. Sadly, the smartphones & QWERTY text phones have taken over. Oh, such simple times back in 2002.
@trainwrecka
True. But this is America - we want shiny new things, not things that resemble artifacts from 10 years ago.
@shadowj0 There's not much you can do with a flip phone. Do too much and the target audience isn't going to like it. Remember, these aren't the people who are buying Tours and DROIDs.