{"id":995742,"date":"2026-03-02T08:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T02:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995742"},"modified":"2026-03-02T08:25:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T02:55:58","slug":"how-gen-xs-favourite-gadgets-like-flip-phones-wired-earphones-are-finding-a-new-set-of-fans-gen-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/02\/how-gen-xs-favourite-gadgets-like-flip-phones-wired-earphones-are-finding-a-new-set-of-fans-gen-z\/","title":{"rendered":"How Gen X\u2019s favourite gadgets like flip phones, wired earphones are finding a new set of fans: Gen Z"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s face it, we live in a world obsessed with newer and more advanced upgrades. But oddly enough, when everything is trying to be a 2.0 version of its older self, Gen Z is pressing rewind. On the streets, you\u2019d see wired earphones dangling out of tote bags, again, while reels teach you how they should be folded to avoid tangling. <\/p>\n<p>Casio\u2019s vintage digital watches are being slapped back on wrists; flip phones are a flex; and Fujifilm\u2019s Instax cameras are printing memories faster than Instagram can filter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s face it, we live in a world obsessed with newer and more advanced upgrades. But oddly enough, when everything is trying to be a 2.0 version of its older self, Gen Z is pressing rewind. On the streets, you\u2019d see wired earphones dangling out of tote bags, again, while reels teach you how they should be folded to avoid tangling. Casio\u2019s vintage digital watches are being slapped back on wrists; flip phones are a flex; and Fujifilm\u2019s Instax cameras are printing memories faster than Instagram can filter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}