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And today we're discussing the Motorola Razor.

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We'll be looking at the Motorola Razor Botha's We knew it in the mid two thousands and in its current smartphone iteration, Do you ever miss having a flip phone Tell us about your favorite phone in the comments below the tech marketplace is a fast paced and crowded one.

New products come and go, many without ever making much of an impression on consumers.

Every now and then, however, a device comes along that feels emblematic of a period of time and in this industry, a few years conf eel like a lifetime from late 2004 until the decline of flip phones around 2008 the Motorola razor was the phone toe own.

Yeah, flash forward roughly a decade and a half from its initial release, and this fan favorite device has gotten a new lease on life as a smartphone theory journal Razor, released in 2004 quickly became the must have phone of its time.

It was a status symbol.

It was cool.

It felt like a perfect marriage of style and functionality.

The V three model alone managed to sell 130 million units, making it the best selling clamshell design phone in history.

And that's not even taking into account the Razor to with its sleek design, The Motorola razor was initially heralded as a fashion phone, a conversation starter with a price tag to match.

But the cost quickly came down, and it went from status symbol to the logical choice.

You couldn't walk down the street without seeing a razor in the hand of a passer by.

Characters in movies and television used them.

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It was even one of the player tokens in the 2006 edition of Monopoly Here and now Ask anyone who owned a razor back in the odds and they will likely tell you that it was their favorite phone, at least pre smartphone technology.

The most important thing for a phone to get right was style on the razor.

Siri's had style to spare revealed in 2004 Motorola's V three was the thinnest phone around, built from aluminum with a nickel plated keypad.

This'll thing looked phenomenal.

There's an enduring fondness for this device during its lifespan.

It didn't necessarily beat out the competition in terms of specs, but it was a testament to the fact that specs aren't everything.

What it offered were competitive specs in a package that was both beautiful and undeniably functional.

The Razor B three will always stand as a testament to the power of really striking design razor.

We salute you when talking wistfully about the original raiser.

It's easy to get caught up in the aesthetics, but it's important to remember that Motorola achieved that sleek profile through innovative design.

At the time, this was the slimmest clamshell design on the market.

The keypad addressed the increasing shift towards texting by offering buttons that felt huge for the time but made typing a breeze compared to other T nine options.

The original raiser might seem small in hindsight, but it was actually quite wide by then.

Current industry standards.

This was a necessary design choice to accommodate the tech.

It also served to give the user a larger than average screen, a design choice that acknowledged the burgeoning interest in mobile gaming.

The new Motorola razor comes with its own fair share of innovations.

The most obvious difference from older models is the foldable screen.

This means a larger screen that takes up less space and cannot be easily scratched in a pocket or purse.

Unlike many other foldable phones, which fold vertically, the new razor states true to its roots and folds horizontally with that satisfying flip motion.

It's intuitive and makes the phone especially compact.

There's still in external screen to which now has much more functionality.

Of course, when it comes to flip phones, it's all in the hinge.

One of the main concerns with foldable phones is their fragility.

Motorola collaborated with Lenovo to design a hinge that's actually an elaborate system of different hinges.

Working in conjunction with sliding plates.

The result is a hinge that feels a bit more rigid than the original but sturdy and a screen that seamless when unfolded.

While the flip still feels similar in terms of specs, the old and new razors are worlds apart.

It's kind of mind blowing to look back and think that the first razor in 2004 had 5.5 megabytes of internal memory and no card slot simpler times.

By contrast, the model released in early 2020 features a snapdragon 7 10 G processor, six gigs of RAM and 128 gigabytes of storage.

In reaction to mixed reviews, the most recent model, the Motorola Razor five G, improves on that with a 765 G processor, eight gigs of RAM and 256 gigabytes of storage.

The battery capacity is 2800 million powers.

The original raiser came with a 1.3 megapixel camera, eventually getting up to two megapixels and subsequent models, some with a secondary camera.

Naturally, the 2020 razor ups this considerably with 16 megapixels, or 48 for the five G model and an aperture of F 1.7.

It can also shoot four K video.

The front camera of the newest model has 20 megapixels, which, thanks to the clamshell design, has the potential to revolutionize yourself a game.

The most defining difference in Motorola's new razor is, without a doubt, the folding technology.

Hard, though it might be to believe the Razor V three is 2.2 inch 176 by 220.

Pixel display felt luxurious back in 2004.

The Modern Razor, by comparison, has an 876 by 2142 pixel 6.2 inch flexible OLED display.

Compared to conventional smartphones, thes aren't groundbreaking specs, but relative to the folding competition, it's pretty impressive.

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As for the front facing screen at 600 by 800 pixels, the 2.7 inch quick view display is a massive upgrade from flip phones of yesteryear.

But it's with the quick view display represents that makes it stand out.

In addition to checking the time, users can control music and check notifications without opening their phone.

And there are additional applications on the horizon.

The early days of the smartphone era were exciting.

Companies were pushing the boundaries to make the ultimate smartphone.

Innovation was apparent in every new model, but it's no secret that over a decade later the vast majority of smartphones have largely adopted a uniformed design.

The other aspect of it is being driven by the technology that's available.

If you can only make batteries of a certain form factor that's going to drive, how big the phone could be in the shape of the phone.

If you could only make a screen of a certain form factor, it's exactly the same.

And that's why we see phones that are flat.

Picking a smartphones gotten kind of boring, and that's a big part of the new Motorola razors appeal.

It satisfies modern demands while proving that there's still room for innovation in man.

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