Acadine is based in Hong Kong, though about 70 of its 110 employees are in Taipei, Taiwan. The company is building software called H5OS designed to modernize decidedly unmodern flip phones.

Smartphone shipments fell in Japan while those of feature phones are up, another sign that older devices won't go away Outmoded technology dies hard in futuristic Japan. Telegrams remain popular ...

For the first time in seven years, shipments of old-school flip phones increased in 2014 while those of smartphones fell. While it may be a statistical anomaly, Japan’s flip phones are highly ...