While many students at Osceola have transitioned from Razr phones to Blackberrys and then to iPhones/Androids, there are a few warriors who still have the old slide phones and flip phones. The reasons can be as varied as the phones themselves: hand-me-down phones, cheaper, other phone in toilet, among other reasons.

One of the students who had an old-styled phone was Marielle Martinez, a junior. While she did not have her phone on her, she did say it was a Nokia flip-phone.

“I had a really fancy phone before, but it dropped in the water,” was her explanation for why she had it. “So my parents gave me their blackberry, but that dropped in that water.”

“Pretty soon, it’ll get to car phones,” Marielle commented.

Another student who has an old phone is Emma Rumpf, a sophomore. She has a slide phone that has a keyboard on the side for texting.

“It runs pretty well, calls fine, but it skips when texting,” Emma said about her phone. She got the phone from her parents, and they bought it from the store new a year ago.

Laurie Rankin, a volunteer in the front office has had smart phones for a little while. Her old phone was a Palm Pre, and her current phone is an iPhone 4S.

Laurie added, “My husband still has a flip phone. I just say, ‘to each their own.’”