In the technical school world , the old adage ‘ what ’s old is raw again ’ is often pertinent . Everything always seems to total back into panache , as we witness with Urban Outfittersflogging refurbish iPod classic modelsrecently .
This fourth dimension it ’s Samsung turn back the clock with theGalaxy Z Flip 5 Retroedition , which pays homage to one of the Hellenic flip phones of the first wave – the 2003 feature phone , the SGH - E700 . Interestingly , it was Samsung ’s first earpiece with an internalised transmitting aerial too !
20 - years on , and with some slightly more in advance technology involve , the Flip 5 Retro replicates the silver and gloomy coloring material scheme . There ’s also screen theme that rebirths the pixel graphics of yesteryear for the date and time on the cover silver screen ..
Samsung also promises a “ Flex Windows - only animation that express the city with a retro sensibility . ” Whatever that means . The box has some cool nerdy stuff for collector , which you may see below .
The telephone goes on cut-rate sale on November 1 in South Korea for 1,599,400 win , but will also be available in the United Kingdom , France , Germany , Spain and Australia in limited qualities , Samsung says . We have n’t find out the selling organisation in the UK yet and the Flip 5 Retro is yet to appear on Samsung ’s UK website .
Samsung ’s gives a lot of credit to the SGH - E700 for kickstarting its mobile telephone set business and says the product sell 10 million unit . Back in those days it matte up like Nokia and Motorola had a chokehold on the UK grocery with Sony Ericsson making some inroads too .
Samsung would finally parlay the SGH - E700 ’s succeeder and name recognition into the touchscreen realm later that decade , until it would eventually launch the first Galaxy phone in 2009 . The rest , as they say , is history .
