Motorola Razr is new phone Motorola $1,500
Motorola has brought back the Razr, the legendary flip phone from 2004 that became the bestselling phone of all time (before the iPhone stole that title several years later). The old Razr was impossibly thin — still, even by today's standards — and had that stunning blue-backlit metal keypad. We overuse the word "iconic," but the original Motorla Razr was one iconic piece of technology.
That's why Motorola has been trying to replicate its Razr success for the past decade. It brought the brand back in 2011 with the Droid Razr
The new Motorola Razr isn't going to be ignored. It can't be. It's a stunning achievement: a modern smartphone (well, mostly — we'll get to that), that folds into something that very closely resembles the original Razr phone. It looks so cool, and the folding mechanism is a piece of engineering genius that could solve a smartphone problem that no one else is trying to solve. I'm not sure Motorola was trying to do that, but it solves it nonetheless.
Folding phones are all the rage in 2019, but they've mostly been built to make a smartphone kinda-sorta-not-really tablet sized. That's a neat idea for people who want a better video, multitasking or typing experience on their smartphones. It's a niche thing now, but it has the potential to gain traction if the technology improves.
Motorola, by contrast, is using its hinge to make a 6.2-inch smartphone-sized phone ... smaller. I'm fairly certain Motorola's primary rationale for the hinge was a nostalgia play: to replicate its famous flip phone.
Motorola Razr isn't about engineering marvels, pocketability, tricks or convenience. It's about making a smartphone look like the 2004 Razr. It's about buying something that makes your friends jealous. It's about taking us back to those fond memories of our first cell phone. It achieves that.
That's why, for some people, it won't matter that the phone is using yesterday's technology. It runs Android 9 a month after Android 10 hit the market. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 processor, which is decidedly mid-range. It has a 2510 milliampere hour battery, which is seriously puny. Its screen is plastic and not nearly as sharp as its competitors. And the camera is good on paper, but Motorola has never been known for top-notch camera software.
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