Celebrities including Rihanna, Kate Beckinsale and Scarlett Johansson have been photographed using their flip phones. The ageless rocker Iggy Pop told New York magazine last month that he still has an old flip phone called a Rugby “because you can drop it a lot and it won’t break.”
And various politicos flaunt their late-adopter phones to reinforce their populist image. Mayor Bill de Blasio has been spotted using an old clamshell model as he walked and talked in Park Slope, Brooklyn. So has Senator Charles E. Schumer, who uses an LG flip phone from the 1990s (partly so he won’t become addicted to his email) and admits he bought 10 of them in case they run out.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/27/st...ment.html?_r=0
I think celebrities might be using them to avoid being victims of another hacking scandal
