Ditching the Smartphone: Meet the billionaire who still uses an (old school) flip phone (PICTURED)

 

Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys, was spotted recently with an old school flip phone. Cork Gaines, a writer for Business Insider, posted this screen grab on Twitter. Here are some other celebs who have used them over the years:

Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys, was spotted recently with an old school flip phone.

The world sort of took notice of Jones’ phone last week at the Arizona State-Notre Dame football game which was, for recruiting and financial reasons, being played at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The venue is now known as AT&T Stadium.

But you can call it the Flip Phone Dome. Because, at one point, Jones appeared on the game’s TV broadcast while talking on his flipper inside his luxury box. And that’s when the tweets started pouring out.

ESPN anchor, Matt Barrie, wrote: Jerry Jones is worth over a billion dollars, but my man still uses a flip phone…#BlessHisHeart

And Cork Gaines, a sports writer for Business Insider, posted a screen grab from his TV.

So, clearly, viewers were jarred by the sight of this very wealthy man using something many of us now look at as a museum piece. Mind you, this would be in the world’s crappiest museum.

What’s interesting about this is that it’s not like Jones can’t afford a smart phone. He just chooses not to have one. And you kind of have to respect that.

Remember, his football stadium holds one of the world’s largest, most advanced high-def video boards — it stretches 160 feet wide and 72 feet high. If the stadium roof were open and you were standing on the moon with nothing else to do, you could watch Cowboys games.

After all of the outrage and amazement about his phone, Jones later went on the radio with 105.3 The Fan [KRLD-FM] and addressed the non-situation situation.

“I don’t know what to say other than I can guarantee AT&T is on the top of that flip phone,” he said. “It works for me. I don’t have any butt-dialing with that thing. I know that.”

He’s got a point.

Read more: CNN

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