# Gen Z has a new ‘vintage’ technology to obsess over

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/gen-z-has-a-new-vintage-technology-to-obsess-over-2/
- Published: 2023-01-19T10:00:43-06:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo caption: “I’m team flip phone revolution,” singer Camila Cabello tweeted Thursday, posing with a TCL flip phone, vintage. “Maybe I can write the theme song.” Photo from Camila Cabello / Twitter. Article by Ramishah Maruf. CNN: Business – updated January 16, 2023. New York (CNN) —First, it was disposable cameras. Then it was low-rise jeans. Now, Gen-Z’s latest “vintage” obsession is the flip phone – that mid-1990s era phone that has suddenly become oh so popular with millennials. Today, these smaller, lightweight devices – some available for as little as $20 at big box retailers like Walmart and Amazon – are showing up in TikTok videos of young people unboxing them, bedazzling their cases just as earlier generations did, and filming tutorials on achieving a carefree, blurry aesthetic through the low quality camera. […] Click here to view original web page at www.cnn.com