Hey, at least with a flip phone he won't butt dial 911 like Mr. K9 did with an older candy bar type phone. Also Mr. K9 is brutal on phones. I don't know how many he's lost and that doesn't include the one that fell out of its holster. He was at the town dump and ran over it. I have two $5.00 flip phones waiting in the wings for his next calamity.