{"id":3135,"date":"2026-10-12T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/12\/why-japan-said-goodbye-to-traditional-flip-phones\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T23:00:00","slug":"why-japan-said-goodbye-to-traditional-flip-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/12\/why-japan-said-goodbye-to-traditional-flip-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Japan said goodbye to traditional flip phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flip phones endured in Japan longer than the US, but the trend is shifting.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/why-japan-said-goodbye-to-traditional-flip-phones\/intro-1791475367.jpg\" \/><\/p><p>Please credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\">OBA Blog<\/a> &raquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/12\/why-japan-said-goodbye-to-traditional-flip-phones\/\">Why Japan said goodbye to traditional flip phones<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flip phones endured in Japan longer than the US, but the trend is shifting. Please credit: OBA Blog &raquo; Why Japan said goodbye to traditional flip phones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}