flip phone

Etymology

 * a genericized trademark of the company Motorola for their clamshell-form mobile phones

Noun

 * 1) A mobile telephone with a hinged top that is flipped open when the phone is in use.
 * 2) * 1992 Sept. 3, "‘Ages’ takes time to look at signposts of life at 40" (review of TV show Middle Ages), Washington Times (retrieved 18 August 2013) :
 * Brian (Kyle Secor) tells the salesman they'll be phasing out fridges and freezers for faxes and flip phones.

Coordinate terms

 * / slider phone
 * / slider phone

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 翻蓋手機, 折疊式手機
 * Danish:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: läppäpuhelin;
 * French: téléphone à clapet
 * German:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: ទូរស័ព្ទ​បត់
 * Russian: раскладу́шка-телефо́н, телефо́н-раскладу́шка
 * Swedish: viktelefon, flipptelefon
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: kapaklı telefon