The Motorola Razr was the first cell phone that I can remember seeing that kindled some desire. This phone was so stylish it was worth extra overtime. It was a sleek, black design with a dual display and it flipped open to reveal a futuristic nickel-plated keypad.
It came in a black leather holster with Bluetooth accessories. The aluminum body felt reassuringly tough. It was also really comfortable to use — the fact that it flipped open and had a hinge in the middle meant that your mouth was naturally at the microphone and the speaker could be held to your ear, something that still feels odd on candy bar designs.
I eventually replaced it with a Nokia pic which was the first phone to have NFC , but while the Nokia is long gone, I still have the Razr. Even with the cracked front display and worn keypad, it still looks pretty good. Debuting in , the Razr Maxx Ve tweaked the design still further and added external music controls. It was 3G, as well, and shared the V3x's features. The Razr2 arrived in , just as the smartphone era was beginning. It had an ever sleeker design, GPS, a refined external display, and more memory capacity.
After this model, the original Razr line more or less ended. As the iPhone began to take over following its , it was cleat that Moto rode Razr wave longer than it should have. Kent German Dec. Read More. A Razr rainbow Motorola knew it had a hit with the Razr. Thin was in You had to catch the Razr's profile to really see its beauty. The controversial chin Not everyone loved the Razr's "chin" that protruded from the bottom of the phone.
Paul Pierce was one of the Razr's chief designers. A volume rocker and a dedicated camera key were on the Razr's left spine. Back in , Mini-USB was the smallest charger port available. The ridged Motorola logo below the external display was a nice touch. Back in black After that first silver model, a black version was the second color available.
A pink party Pink was a popular Razr color -- so much so that were multiple shades of pink. Made in magenta One pink version, which was officially called magenta, landed at T-Mobile as the V3t.
Breakthroughs from Finland, Japan, and Korea were slowly pushing us in the direction of giant devices that barely squeezed into a pocket. Sound familiar? And then there was Motorola. It had single-handedly dominated the global cellphone market before Nokia surpassed it in The year was , and Motorola was planning a successor to its popular StarTAC phone, first released in But this phone was seven years old and had ceased to woo the market. The screen was small.
The buttons were miniscule. It was built for calling in a world leaning toward multimedia. The brief of the new phone was built around a single, groundbreaking premise. Ten millimeters. Motorola wanted a phone that was 10mm thin. Competitors were pushing 20mm at the time, and Motorola engineers and executives planned to half this number to make a splash.
But the declaration was the most unifying message Pierce ever recalls hearing in his decades at the company. And they could tell you exactly the objective. Word for word.
People were excited to see the 10mm model internally—and yet, it felt wrong. Motorola wanted to build the future. The company knew from global ethnographic research that, while America was lagging, people were using phones differently. They were texting more and more. So the keyboard should be big. Real big.
The source suggests the Razr will see bigger improvements as a result. The Motorola Razr has a lot to like about it but also a lot of issues, which is why we only gave it three stars in our review. For the Motorola Razr to be a five-star phone it could do with the following.
One of our main complaints about the Razr is its battery life. Another issue we had with the Motorola Razr was that the hinge would creak when unfolding the screen. The Razr has two screens but neither of them are particularly special.
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