Gadgetory

a fashion icon a multimillion best seller and one of the most celebrated gadgets of the current century standby as we chart our favorite memories of the Motorola RAZR v3 before they became powerful pocket computers the most important thing for a phone to get right was style and the razor series had style to spare revealed in 2004 Motorola's v3 was the thinnest phone around but from aluminium with a nickel-plated keypad this thing looked phenomenal hinges aren't something you see in phones anymore but the razor makes you miss the days of flipping open a phone not only did it keep your mobile screen protected it felt amazing the perfect flourish with which to end a conversation having online desk by Monday today the v3 looks positively stone aged but even at the time it wasn't all that cutting-edge a 176 by 220 pixel color display plus a VGA camera for taking still images were warmly received but other phones of the era had fancier hardware instead this phone relied on its iSchool design which saw Motorola sell 50 million VIII's in under two years motorola knew it was on to a good thing and made sure there was a raiser for everyone with an increasing parade of colors and patterns designer models charity models loads of variants with slightly altered hardware the world quickly became flooded with Motorola's hit mobile the victory had a huge cultural impact even making it as a monopoly piece and Motorola really ran with that success probably for too long in fact and by the time the razor 2 was released it was competing with Apple's much more advanced iPhone Motorola was slow to jump on the smartphone bandwagon and suffered as a result but the Rays of e3 will always stand as a testament to the power of really striking design razor we salute you