Adele fans wondered why the soulful singer uses a flip phone in her latest music video "Hello," according to CNN News.
While watching the sepia-toned story play out, the Grammy award winner belts out an emotional song, noted E! Online. Viewers loved the song and tweeted about the outdated flip phone.
In the Twitter-verse some loved the outdated phone and wanted to go out and buy one. Others hated it and said the 27-year-old singer should upgrade to a modern one.
Mobile phone maker Motorola may see an increase in sales, as some tweeted about going and buying a flip phone, reported E! Online.
The video's director Xavier Dolan explained why he used the vintage phone as a opposed to a modern touch-screen smartphone, reported USA Today.
“It makes me uncomfortable filming iPhones because I feel like I’m shooting an iPhone commercial." Dolan said. "And the same thing stands for cars: Drive them! Buy them! But on film, they’re distracting to me. They’re elements that you identify to our reality so much that – whether it’s a short film, a film, a music video – they just hurt the piece’s sensibility and reality, and it’s not as romantic. Those things: iPhones, laptops, all those elements, to me, they bring me back to reality: That’s not what you want. You want to get out of your own life; you want to enter someone else’s; you want to travel somewhere; you want to be told a story. I’m realizing maybe I’ve been more distracting than anything else with that flip phone, but it wasn’t intentional!”
Technology experts wonder what would happen if Apple released a modern flip phone, according to CNET.
Watch the British bombshell and "The Wire's" Michael Lee use flip phones in "Hello":
