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Apple’s most famous investor, Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett, has finally got rid of his old flip phone.
“My flip phone is permanently gone. The number’s been changed,” Buffett said during an interview that aired Monday on CNBC.
“You’re looking at an 89-year-old guy who’s barely beginning to be with it.”
His new phone? An iPhone, of course.
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Buffett said he’s using “the latest model”, but he’s not using it to play Fortnite or lazily scroll through his Instagram feed.
“I don’t use all its facilities like most people – most people are living their lives around it,” he said. “I use it as a phone.”


Buffett’s phone use has been a subject of interest across the last decade as smartphones have become ubiquitous.
His company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns a 5.6 per cent stake in Apple – worth more than US$70 billion. Even though his financial interests with Apple are clear, Buffett has resisted the move to smartphones.
Berkshire Hathaway empire ‘prepared’ for Warren Buffett’s departure
Instead, he stuck with a Samsung-made flip phone as the world adopted smartphones.
Buffett is a billionaire many times over, worth US$88.9 billion, according to Forbes, but he told CNBC that he didn’t actually have to buy his iPhone. That’s because Apple CEO Tim Cook, among other people, gifted Buffett with an iPhone.
“I’ve been given several of them, including by Tim Cook,” Buffett said.
The Apple CEO has tried to convince Buffett for years to give up his flip phone for an iPhone.
“I told him I’ll personally come out to Omaha and do tech support for him,” Cook told Bloomberg TV in June 2018.
Buffett also teased a clip that will be shown at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting in Omaha this May: “It will probably show me crushing with my foot my old flip phone while cosying up to the new smartphone,” he said.
https://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-got-an-iphone-apple-flip-phone-2020-2

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Warren Buffett has traded his old flip phone for Apple’s iPhone

Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett. File photo: Reuters

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Justin Sun (centre) with Warren Buffett on their dinner date, January 2020. Source: Twitter

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Warren Buffett is known for his track record of brilliant investing but also for his folksy and humble persona, as well as his philanthropy. File photo: Reuters

FILE PHOTO: Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett (left) and Vice Chairman Charlie Munger are seen at the annual Berkshire shareholder shopping day in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S., May 3, 2019. REUTERS/Scott Morgan/File Photo

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The legendary investor had previously used a Samsung-made flip phone
His company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns a 5.6 per cent stake in Apple – worth more than US$70 billion



Warren Buffett’s phone use has been a subject of interest across the last decade as smartphones became ubiquitous.


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Warren Buffett has traded his old flip phone for Apple’s iPhone

.css-1mniedq{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;} The legendary investor had previously used a Samsung-made flip phone His company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns a 5.6 per cent stake in Apple – worth more than US$70 billion

The legendary investor had previously used a Samsung-made flip phone

His company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns a 5.6 per cent stake in Apple – worth more than US$70 billion