Had the first RAZER back in the days. I loved how it felt. The metal case, the colorful screen, it even had a small screen outside showing the amount of missed calls/messages/connection. This was really one of the best phones I ever had. Fun-Fact: I had this phone for quite a few months and then it started to appear more often in German television (back in the day there was no Netflix so you had to wait for tv series to get translated and were always one season at least behind). Suddenly many friends were buying it too :D
Motorola Razr V3 Cellphone: The trend-setter that shouldn't have existed
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#52Great phone, loved using it until the benefits of the smartphone became too great to ignore. If I ever decided to give up on smartphones and move to a dumbphone (which isn't that far-fetched - I can use tablet for the most "smart" parts anyway) I'd probably get something like a Razr again. I love the tactical feedback of a flip-phone - you know how to answer a call and how to end it, and it has a physical feel to it that I still miss in smartphones.
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#53I was working in the telecom industry back then, and had to test phones' OTA compatibility with some enterprise software. I had to deal with Motorola's awful software for years, and as a result RAZR evokes something different for me than the hardware.
The flip side of the RAZR's skunkwork origin was the not-skunkwork-part. That is, being part of Motorola, which meant: (1) relying on Motorola firmware that was slow, ugly, and an UX joke, even by those years' standards, and (2) as soon as they found out those things would sell, the started milking it endlessly, with only minimal updates. The "it's a slim phone!" gimick got old fast. As a matter of fact, Motorola would not produce anything headline-worthy until the Droid. That's quite a long time.
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#54I think this flip phone would still sell today if they would make it. I was in a retro mood recently and actually looked at a flip phone to buy and the cheapest I could find in my country was about the same price as a low-cost Android. So, no buy. The guys selling under the Nokia brand are also rejuvenating old products but they are going too far: I don't want a Nokia with a color screen, better graphics and an app s…
Where I am in Australia these things sell:
https://www.binglee.com.au/tech/phones/3g-feature-phones/kon...
I bought one for my mum. It's not bad. When I bought it was one of the last ones and the guy in the store said they sell out regularly. It's popular with older folks.
So flip phones do sell in 2018.
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#55In 2003, a 14mm-thick phone cost $500. In 2018, a 5mm-thick phone costs https://www.aliexpress.com/item/New-Mini-Phone-AEKU-C6-Color... The level of integration has increased immensely, there's not much inside one of these phones: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=3107
I had a variation of that mini phone you linked to (the internals get repackaged by various manufacturers). Mine was exactly the height and width of a credit card, and not very thick. It was lovely in my pocket, so unobtrusive. Everyone thought it was a calculator. :) Had to give it up after a while because the battery was really bad. One serious call and it was toast, and the battery got worse with age. If they made…
Saw something that probably was an iPod the other day. For a few seconds I thought it was a new iPhone (can't remember seeing an iPod in years).
I want a phone in that size:
- Small.
- With touchscreen,
- With a browser
- With downloadable or even uploadable apps (basic ones like maps and messaging clients would be enough, don't need games or 3d, just don't want to rely on my operator or the manufacturer to create a new firmware before I can swap my messaging client.)
- A quick camera that is good enough for everyday pictures: whiteboards, messaging.
- Ideally somewhat water resitant
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#56"The RAZR was the first phone to recognize that cellphones [...] were on the tipping point to becoming fashion accessories" Was RAZR really released in 2003? Searches seem to bring up varying dates, mostly mentioning mid to late 2004. In Japan, there was the AU Design Project, a carrier-led project established in 2002 which created concept mockups and eventually actual products with a focus on industrial design and f…
The posted article is probably incorrect to say the Motorola Razr was "introduced" July 2003. Either the author confused the phone's release date with when development work started: https://web.archive.org/web/20050412050444/http://www.msnbc....
Or it's a typo and they meant July 2004. The Motorola Razr was unveiled by Motorola CEO Edward Zander on 2004-07-26, the night before this Forbes article was published: https://web.archive.org/web/20040812193840/https://www.forbe...
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I miss phones that let you dial the letters of the contact name to pull up that contact. Example I always thought was funny was Mom is 666. But with that, it was faster to dial a contact name like that than their number.
My phone still let me do that, plain vanilla Samsung S8. I'd be surprised if that didn't work in the most phones on the market today.
I think all Androids let you do that, but iPhones don't.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had a variation of that mini phone you linked to (the internals get repackaged by various manufacturers). Mine was exactly the height and width of a credit card, and not very thick. It was lovely in my pocket, so unobtrusive. Everyone thought it was a calculator. :) Had to give it up after a while because the battery was really bad. One serious call and it was toast, and the battery got worse with age. If they made…
Saw something that probably was an iPod the other day. For a few seconds I thought it was a new iPhone (can't remember seeing an iPod in years). I want a phone in that size: - Small. - With touchscreen, - With a browser - With downloadable or even uploadable apps (basic ones like maps and messaging clients would be enough, don't need games or 3d, just don't want to rely on my operator or the manufacturer to create a…
So an iPhone SE? Or an Apple Watch with Cellular?
There’s an impossible trade off between being “small” as in credit card sized and having a usable browser.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Saw something that probably was an iPod the other day. For a few seconds I thought it was a new iPhone (can't remember seeing an iPod in years). I want a phone in that size: - Small. - With touchscreen, - With a browser - With downloadable or even uploadable apps (basic ones like maps and messaging clients would be enough, don't need games or 3d, just don't want to rely on my operator or the manufacturer to create a…
So an iPhone SE? Or an Apple Watch with Cellular? There’s an impossible trade off between being “small” as in credit card sized and having a usable browser.
> So an iPhone SE?
I think it was quite a bit smaller than even iPhone 4 (I'm not really into Apple products though.)
> Or an Apple Watch with Cellular?
Way to small, I want it to be practical for older people like me :-P
> There’s an impossible trade off between being “small” as in credit card sized and having a usable browser.
Kind of agree, but given the right phone I'd almost forget the browser on the phone and just use my laptop or carry a cheap tablet in my jacket for browsing.
Edit: yep
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#60"The RAZR was the first phone to recognize that cellphones [...] were on the tipping point to becoming fashion accessories" Was RAZR really released in 2003? Searches seem to bring up varying dates, mostly mentioning mid to late 2004. In Japan, there was the AU Design Project, a carrier-led project established in 2002 which created concept mockups and eventually actual products with a focus on industrial design and f…
I'd say the Nokia 8210 from 1999 is a better contender. Very design-focussed, launched at Paris Fashion Week. Has to be among the smallest candybar phones made too. A much better phone than the RAZR.