Does Verizon market a basic cell phone any longer?

Needing a basic phone.  Does Verizon offer one?
What is a simple phone?  Here's what it is not:  It does not surf the web.  It does not play music or videos.  It does not take photographs.  It doesn't even need to text.  It doesn't need to be festooned with buttons that activate services the user doesn't need.  It doesn't need to beep when you shift it in your pocket or put on your seatbelt. 
What does it need to do?  It needs to be able to accommodate a user wishing only to dial calls and receive calls, take messages and retain a list of contact numbers.  It needs to have buttons placed INSIDE the folded unit so the user while accessing the phone doesn't turn something on or up or down or off.  Beyond that, it just needs to sit there quietly until a call comes in.
Does Verizon offer such a phone?  If not, can anyone suggest a carrier that does.
[Sorry for the rant, but I am pretty burnt out on paying a monthly fee for a simple phone that is clearly not designed from the user innerface point of view.  My current Samsung Grunt has proven to be a huge disappointment largely because it possesses too many features.  I just want to make a ****** phone call.  ]

The flip phones currently available online.
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller?item=phoneFirst&action=viewPhoneDetail&selectedPhoneId=6196
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller?item=phoneFirst&action=viewPhoneDetail&selectedPhoneId=5713
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller?item=phoneFirst&action=viewPhoneDetail&selectedPhoneId=6195
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller?item=phoneFirst&action=viewPhoneDetail&selectedPhoneId=5888
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller?item=phoneFirst&action=viewPhoneDetail&selectedPhoneId=5712

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    I can confirm that the phone is currently at 4.1.2 and that I wasn't prompted for an OTA update.The fact that both the Android OS and Reddit News processes were simultaneously using an extremely large amount of data is unlikely to be a coincidence... 
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    [–]omgmrjmako/PA, deb/Carbon 3 points 1 year ago
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    The largest directories are:
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    [–]omgmrjmako/PA, deb/Carbon 2 points 1 year ago
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    [–]mistrbrownstone 0 points 1 year ago
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