I'm weird, I kept every cell phone I've ever had. One time I plugged one into see if it still worked for the hell of it, and it did! It was pretty surreal reading texts from 12 years ago 📱👀
I think most people keep their old cellphones, what else to do with them? If you don't change phones every year, your old phone is not worth the time and effort to sell. Also, why would it not work? People have gadgets for 30+ years and they still work. You are not weird, you are like everyone else.
Yes same here, I got a box with about twenty five or so phone's from the last fifteen or so years, and they really are neat little time capsules for some nosetalgia, reading old Texts, looking at old pictures of friends and family, some that are gone or moved on.
@@AyratHungryStudent I know a few people that just throw them away, or send them to a recycling center, a lot of people I've seen throw them in those recycling boxes that they have at targets and a few other stores that I've seen.
I've also kept some of my old phones(mostly pre Android, and couple backup Android phones) that were not trashed, and had some memories attached to them, but now that Google transfers my text from one phone to the next, along with everything else, it's less of an issue to keep so many of my old phones, and I end up either giving them to family who can use them, recycling them, or donating them to "Cell Phones for Soldiers"
The original Motorola Razr was my first phone. When I was in middle school, everyone was using the first gen iPhone but I was still rocking the Razr lol.
Back when phones were exciting. The new razr+ 2023 sparked alot of interest in these newer foldables for me. It's the first one in the America's that actually looks like it isn't just a proof of concept. I'm picking it up and I've got that feeling I used to get back in the day. Y'know, when grabbing a new phone actually felt like an upgrade and gave you excitement.
I miss when cell phones where like this. Companies were making so many different phones then. It was actually fun to go to the store and get a new phone because you never knew what you were gonna get. I remember my Dad used a Razr and I was amazed by that phone.
I had the same exact Razr! My first cell phone I got to pick out when I was a senior in high school. I had it for like three years or so. Solid phone and so many memories.
On these old phones they had something called wireless village built in where you could use AIM, MSN, icq, or yahoo messenger which is usually in the sms section of the phone. I actually bought AT&T's domain that they used for it so it actually could be possible to make it work again with escargot msn again or even discord without modifying the phone haha.
I remember using a similar program called Trillian on PC as early as 2001. I remember it had an early Android app version that I downloaded on my Sprint hero the day I got it
I had startac, grey with fat battery. It fell off my motorbike with 60 kilometers. it came in three pieces, I put it together right away and it worked! After startac i take Razr black. I am very glad that you made a video about them, greetings from Greece.
The Motorola Razr was my first cell phone.Such good memories and like you mentioned, I'll never forget opening the box and holding it for the first time.
@@weeboutthere427 I totally agree with you! WHEN is Apple going to put out something exciting? From the iPhone 6 all the way to the current iPhone 15 very little has changed visually as far as the physical design or shell of the device, for the exception of rounding off the corners one year and squaring them off the following year, then back to the rounded edges design again and so on and so forth. Then they teeter back and forth with the materials from glass to aluminum and back to glass again. I think they threw titanium in the mix a few times, other than that not much as changed, BORING! Unless you're a die hard apple iPhone aficionado, the average person at first glance wouldn't be able to tell if you were holding an iPhone 8 plus from an iPhone 14 pro max, unless the back camera lenses were visable. Black squares is exactly what they are. The Motorola Razr is and always will be iconic & surely was ahead of its time both internally, but mostly by its esthetically pleasing metal design!
I loved my Razr phone, it always reminded me of early Star Trek communicators, and incidentlly I came across it the other day while looking for something else. They're so small and light compared to the massive phones we have today. If you just wanted a tiny phone to make and receive calls and not be distracted by anything but a phone call, it could work today as a second phone.
My parents each had a razr. Mom had the res one while my dad had the silver. Remember using their phone just to play that "Hello Moto" ringtone over and over again😂 Those phones were sweet
A phone today is everything- emailer, office docs, scanner, camera, game player, zoom meeting, maps, sd card reader, usb device, I set my Raspberry pi up with it, nearly everything you can think of. Oh ..and it can make calls..😊 unfortunately we needed smart phones.
Those were good times. I kind of miss the simplicity and not always being truly connected. I only used it to call and text because anything else was painful.
I love that the StarTac came with a clip like a belt clip but ready was meant to be placed anywhere such as on your shirt pocket or between your shirt buttons. It was a wearable phone.
@@MetalJesusRocksWhat is interesting though, is at the time. Verizon had every say, so when it came to all of the phones you could buy from them except the windows mobile like phones, the higher end business like phones, but all the consumer level phones such as the razor. And such they had fool say so on. The features set and software so they can lock certain functionality that the phone itself. Actually had if you bought from Motorola themselves or something, but the operating system was also. The same one on every 1 of the consumer level phones at Verizon.. They had literally everything locked down And I remember the Verizon Motorola razor and then going and seeing a non Carrier locked Motorola razor that seemingly have what look to be much more advanced operating system and software running on it And if I remember right? They ran a Java based operating system on the non Verizon models.
*_The RAZR wasn’t my first phone, but it was the first phone I bought with my own money. $200 back in 2005. While the phone was great, my memories of it were more centered around the tech. Wireless technology was changing so fast back then, and people didn’t have the understanding of it like they do today. I remember I had to drive to the city and park in a parking lot to download Doom RPG because it was the only place around that had 2G fast enough to do so. LOL I remember having it sitting on a table and my Uncle asked what it was. I told him it was my phone. Being completely serious, he replied, “No, really… what is it?” He couldn’t believe a phone could be so small. The RAZR really was the iPhone before the iPhone. Everyone either had one or wanted one._*
I talk about the Razr at least once a month. I miss that phone so much. If I could have that phone, and still get GPS, Spotify and play GBA Roms on it, I'd switch tomorrow.
I was the first one in my family to have a Razr when I was in my 20s and before six months every single family member of mine had also gotten themselves one. It was such a great phone. There is a new version out since 2020 that is a foldable screen, and then like a big smart phone when you pop it open.
Yes he mentions that in video about the newer foldable Razr models, but they are expensive, the screens are fairly fragile being made of such thin glass, and finding replacement parts can be a bit hard, plus being a bit tricky to work on as shown by Hugh Jefferies who does a lot of repair, and right to repair videos on his channel.
@@CommodoreFan64’s actually insane how expensive it is. There was a low chance I would upgrade from my iPhone 11 as I am so accustomed to IOS, but seeing that the Razr 2022 was just a touch below $2000 opposed to the iPhone 14 Pro Max coming in at just over $1500 AUD, it was a no brainer. The camera on the Razr 2022 is just mediocre. Razr’s wide angle lenses are not great. Apparenntly the Razr 2022 has the highest megapixel count of smartphones, but despite this, the overall colour depth is not great and the overall phone is not worth 2k asking price. Apple imo, still has the best phone cameras going around.
@@cbgg1585 I've personally never been an iPhone fan, as I like freedom of choice being able to customize my Android experience, to be able to sideload apps, and use alternative apps markets like F droid on Android(yes I actually do that), and I also don't care too much about the cameras on my phone as long as they are good enough. The most I've ever personally spent on a single phone was about 320 USD for a Motorola Moto G3 with a custom back plate, and case, usually I'm well under 300 USD. with my last phone an unlocked Nokia G50 I got for about 240 USD, and it does everything I need a phone to do, and then some.
@@cbgg1585 What about the new Google Pixel smart phones? It's been said their cameras are supposedly better than iPhones camera technology. I honestly doubt that's possible... Maybe better than the iPhone 15 plus's cameras, but I highly doubt it surpasses the iPhone 15 pro max's cameras, which is in comparison to the likes of professional quality photos and high tech video recording like the stuff movies are made of. If you go to Apples website and read the specks on the camera and video of the new iPhone 15 pro max it's quite impressive.
I never had a Razr, though my mother had a Krzr, which was rather nice. The LG Chocolate, T-Mobile Sidekick II(a re-branded Danger Hiptop), and the phones that would open one way for calls and another way for text messages are the ones I'm most nostalgic about. I'm not really big on cell phones, but these are the ones I remember a lot of people I knew in middle/high school having as their first phone.
I absolutely LOVED my Razr. It was in my pocket and I was outside when it was raining and it ruined the phone. I never got another one, but it is still one my favorite phones I owned.
I had one of these and so did many of my friends. Seeing the graphics on the front screen gives me pure nostalgia. Im sure someday I will be saying the same thing about the iPhone I am typing on right now.
My Dad worked at Motorola as a systems engineer for land mobile radios (not cell phones) through the 80s to the 2010s, I remember when the razor came out, it was a huge deal and he had one. Loved that design and the marketing campaign with ACDC's Back in Black. Something people forgot is the Razor did have data services for some type of web browsing, that was something super advanced at the time. Our family also had the StarTac, which ended up becoming a toy for the kids as time went on 🤣 Motorola had some cutting edge products and still I think makes the best radios in the business, but boy did they fall from grace. The Razor was an attempt to win back the mobile market. This is a nice reminder of the bright spots. Great video!!
The pink Verizon RAZR V3M was my very first phone when I was a toddler. I could navigate the menus without the need for a manual and LOVED playing the ringtones. I then "upgraded" to a BlackBerry 7105T on T-Mobile. I've been collecting phones ever since.
In high school, i had the Motorola Krzr K1. Freaking loved that phone. Was feeling so nostalgic for it I ended up buying the 2020 Motorola Razr. I really love having a flip phone again.
Flipping flip phone open with one hand used to be my pastime, its so satisfying if you nailed that before answering a call, especially if you do the flailing motion rather than only using your thumb to flip it up. I also used to own a Samsung flip phone that bounces upon dropping it, good old times.
Man just looking at this brings back nostalgia for me i absolutely loved my Motorola Razr Metal Jesus Rocks and bringing back old memories dearest to my heart i had the silver one such a great phone i did have the Nokia but it was all about the Razr for me.
I had a T720 back in the day before getting the RAZR. Then went to blackberry phones for awhile and then settling back with Motorola again for the past 6 years. I have the Motorola One right now and it's a fantastic midrange phone
I didnt want to have a cellphone back in the day, until I saw someone using a black V3 and I immediately changed my mind. Such a sexy retro sci fi feel to it, and on top of it I remember you could hack in so many ways, like changing the picture on the external screen or the boot image etc.
That phone “OS” is super nostalgic. I haven’t seen those screens in years but it instantly brought me back. Never had the RAZR but my phone had the same version (maybe it came from Verizon?). Think I had a couple LGs and a Samsung back circa 2005-2011
My mom used to have a pink one, and I remember once she was watching some tv show on it in the waiting room of a dr office and everyone around us was blown away by it
I still have my old RAZR phones too. Sadly, I lost my startac phone. Now, what's cooler than a razr, the slim krzr (krazer) slimmer, smaller and still cool. The startac variant was called Vader, awesome phone and cool design. Thank you for the trip down memory lane.
You know this still works? I have one and it works with 2g still on T Mobile. I love mine! I also still have a rainbow StarTAC. That one is jacked to still work.
These were hugely popular in the mid 2000's. Self incriminating story: I used to work for UPS during those times and partaking in easily stealing/sneaking them out the warehouse. Sold them for $60 each.
The Razr was my first cellphone back when I was a freshman in high school. When I first saw one I knew I had to have it. It was actually quite practical for school too in that it fit nicely in my pockets without feeling awkward and clunky. It really seemed like the future back then, when phones were getting smaller and thinner. It seemed that the future of phones would eventually culminate to being phones that were essentially a sheet of glass, thin and small. And yeah, just about everyone was carrying Razrs back then. Then the first iPhone came out during my junior year and the paradigm at school shifted wildly. When once upon a time everyone seemed to be carrying Razrs they now all seemingly carried iPhones after its release. It was an interesting time seeing the birth of modern phones as we know them today. At present I'm waiting for my new Galaxy Z Fold5 to deliver and so I'm taking a waltz through memory lane thinking back on my first phone. The Fold5 kinda reminds me of my old Razr in many ways. Thanks for this video as it was a nostalgic treat. I will have to find my Razr one day, it's boxed away somewhere at my place in some forgotten corner.
I loved my RAZR and was very upset the day it died because actually I left it on top of the dash of the truck and the sun cooked it the screens turned white. It was so cool to answer calls with the quick hand flip action
I was one of those kids that had the Sprint Katana, instead of the Razr. Honestly, just because of its durability, I'm so glad I had the Katana. I knew a small number of people with broken Razr screens, so I was pretty happy.
There are plenty of great J2ME games out there and it's probably one of the most underrated libraries. Quite a few AAA games also got demake such as Assassin's Creed or Call of Duty which I've found to be pretty fun.
Visited my parents house and saw my old razr in my closet. Charged it up and it still turns on. Still had messages in it from high school friends and exes I haven’t talked to in decades. Was just slack jawed.
Some of the best phones I ever had were Sanyo Flip phones. I always had Sprint, so didn't have any Razr. I did have the HTC Mogul that was basically a pocket PC. When it worked. Wasn't the most reliable phone, but ahead of it's time
I have a Razr V3XX and I loved it! It had a really nice and responsive UI, looked much better and smooth than the crud in the first V3. It also had a front camera when flipped out.
Loved mine - silver 2006 model. Used it till it broke in half at the hinge, then continued using it as the bottom/keypad dangled from the screen portion with a couple wires holding it together 😂
The original is why i have rhe new one now. I wanted one but never got the chance, but since purchasing the latest one, i have dound my dream cell phone., rhank you Motorola
This was one of my first phone! And after few weeks, i get drunk on a corporate party and lost in the taxi. :( After i buyed again and i used many years. This was one of the best phone of that age. Thank you the great review Jesus!
I used to have an older Motorola flip phone. It was before the Startac. I bought a car back in the 90's that had a cellphone mount installed. So I got the Motorola flip phone, and man. I think those cellphone plans were you got like only 30 minutes a month. I never really used the phone other than when I wanted to look cool.
I'm weird, I kept every cell phone I've ever had. One time I plugged one into see if it still worked for the hell of it, and it did! It was pretty surreal reading texts from 12 years ago 📱👀
I think most people keep their old cellphones, what else to do with them? If you don't change phones every year, your old phone is not worth the time and effort to sell.
Also, why would it not work? People have gadgets for 30+ years and they still work.
You are not weird, you are like everyone else.
Yes same here, I got a box with about twenty five or so phone's from the last fifteen or so years, and they really are neat little time capsules for some nosetalgia, reading old Texts, looking at old pictures of friends and family, some that are gone or moved on.
@@AyratHungryStudent I know a few people that just throw them away, or send them to a recycling center, a lot of people I've seen throw them in those recycling boxes that they have at targets and a few other stores that I've seen.
I've also kept some of my old phones(mostly pre Android, and couple backup Android phones) that were not trashed, and had some memories attached to them, but now that Google transfers my text from one phone to the next, along with everything else, it's less of an issue to keep so many of my old phones, and I end up either giving them to family who can use them, recycling them, or donating them to "Cell Phones for Soldiers"
Me too history 😊
The original Motorola Razr was my first phone. When I was in middle school, everyone was using the first gen iPhone but I was still rocking the Razr lol.
Yeah, frick the iPhone kids, the RAZR was still the best.
Back when phones were exciting. The new razr+ 2023 sparked alot of interest in these newer foldables for me. It's the first one in the America's that actually looks like it isn't just a proof of concept. I'm picking it up and I've got that feeling I used to get back in the day. Y'know, when grabbing a new phone actually felt like an upgrade and gave you excitement.
Well if there was one thing i didn't exect to see from Metal Jesus today, it was a Motorola video, those phones are nostalgic man :)
Trying to mix it up a bit. My iPod video got over 3.5 million views... so I figured I'd try talking about my favorite old cell phone.
@@MetalJesusRocks no problem man, i'll still watch these, it's fun to see :)
@@MetalJesusRocks nokia 6630 that came out the same year as the Motorola Razr was a much better phone
I miss when cell phones where like this. Companies were making so many different phones then. It was actually fun to go to the store and get a new phone because you never knew what you were gonna get. I remember my Dad used a Razr and I was amazed by that phone.
Those cell phones are a blast from the past.
I had the same exact Razr! My first cell phone I got to pick out when I was a senior in high school. I had it for like three years or so. Solid phone and so many memories.
It was and still is so beautiful. The electroluminescent keypad was so futuristic looking.
On these old phones they had something called wireless village built in where you could use AIM, MSN, icq, or yahoo messenger which is usually in the sms section of the phone. I actually bought AT&T's domain that they used for it so it actually could be possible to make it work again with escargot msn again or even discord without modifying the phone haha.
Any progress on this?
I remember using a similar program called Trillian on PC as early as 2001. I remember it had an early Android app version that I downloaded on my Sprint hero the day I got it
I had that too, and I still have all my phones. Great phone for sure. Good times, good times❤️
I had startac, grey with fat battery. It fell off my motorbike with 60 kilometers. it came in three pieces, I put it together right away and it worked! After startac i take Razr black. I am very glad that you made a video about them, greetings from Greece.
The Motorola Razr was my first cell phone.Such good memories and like you mentioned, I'll never forget opening the box and holding it for the first time.
The Razr and also the Sidekick were so cool. I hope as folding screen technology progresses, phone design gets creative again.
Lmao, how is reverting back to old design “creative”? You see the irony in your comment?
@@cbgg1585Anything is more creative than the black squares we've been carrying for 10 years
@@weeboutthere427 I totally agree with you! WHEN is Apple going to put out something exciting? From the iPhone 6 all the way to the current iPhone 15 very little has changed visually as far as the physical design or shell of the device, for the exception of rounding off the corners one year and squaring them off the following year, then back to the rounded edges design again and so on and so forth. Then they teeter back and forth with the materials from glass to aluminum and back to glass again. I think they threw titanium in the mix a few times, other than that not much as changed, BORING! Unless you're a die hard apple iPhone aficionado, the average person at first glance wouldn't be able to tell if you were holding an iPhone 8 plus from an iPhone 14 pro max, unless the back camera lenses were visable. Black squares is exactly what they are. The Motorola Razr is and always will be iconic & surely was ahead of its time both internally, but mostly by its esthetically pleasing metal design!
I loved my Razr phone, it always reminded me of early Star Trek communicators, and incidentlly I came across it the other day while looking for something else. They're so small and light compared to the massive phones we have today. If you just wanted a tiny phone to make and receive calls and not be distracted by anything but a phone call, it could work today as a second phone.
I switched from iPhone back to android for the new razor plus and it didn't disappoint!! Nostalgia is a heck of a drug lol
I miss the era when each phones had their own looks and gimmicks...now its all the same
My first phone was a hot pink Razor in middle school! Loved that thing.
LOVE collecting 'retro' tech - fascinating that things from the late 90s and early 2000s are considered collectible, but here we are and I love it!
My favorite phone. Got two over a few years (early 2000's). I still have both 😊
The design aesthetic was brilliant, really sleek. Was so slim in the pocket too
Best looking phone ever made and not even close. I remember my Mother had the pink one and it looked awesome. I loved my silver one.
I got my razr v3i. Damn so nostalgic to see a razr again
This phone was the phone of all phones back in the day
Razr was amazing ❤
dang. me too. razr v3 is the one true king of mobile phone.
Phones had unique designs then. Now you own one you own them all
My parents each had a razr. Mom had the res one while my dad had the silver. Remember using their phone just to play that "Hello Moto" ringtone over and over again😂 Those phones were sweet
the LG chocolate flip was the best flip phone I ever had
I remember having one of these, it was a great cell phone.
A phone today is everything- emailer, office docs, scanner, camera, game player, zoom meeting, maps, sd card reader, usb device, I set my Raspberry pi up with it, nearly everything you can think of. Oh
..and it can make calls..😊 unfortunately we needed smart phones.
I remember this one! A friend had it and I was jealous it looked so cool
Those were good times. I kind of miss the simplicity and not always being truly connected. I only used it to call and text because anything else was painful.
I swear to God I would use this if they brought it back. I miss flip phones so much
Crazy this video popped up today, yesterday I was watching an old NASCAR race and the HTC EVO 4G was the main sponsor. Loved the Razer and the HTC!
I love that the StarTac came with a clip like a belt clip but ready was meant to be placed anywhere such as on your shirt pocket or between your shirt buttons. It was a wearable phone.
Yep! I had the belt clip too. 😂
@@MetalJesusRocksWhat is interesting though, is at the time. Verizon had every say, so when it came to all of the phones you could buy from them except the windows mobile like phones, the higher end business like phones, but all the consumer level phones such as the razor. And such they had fool say so on. The features set and software so they can lock certain functionality that the phone itself. Actually had if you bought from Motorola themselves or something, but the operating system was also. The same one on every 1 of the consumer level phones at Verizon.. They had literally everything locked down And I remember the Verizon Motorola razor and then going and seeing a non Carrier locked Motorola razor that seemingly have what look to be much more advanced operating system and software running on it And if I remember right? They ran a Java based operating system on the non Verizon models.
*_The RAZR wasn’t my first phone, but it was the first phone I bought with my own money. $200 back in 2005. While the phone was great, my memories of it were more centered around the tech. Wireless technology was changing so fast back then, and people didn’t have the understanding of it like they do today. I remember I had to drive to the city and park in a parking lot to download Doom RPG because it was the only place around that had 2G fast enough to do so. LOL I remember having it sitting on a table and my Uncle asked what it was. I told him it was my phone. Being completely serious, he replied, “No, really… what is it?” He couldn’t believe a phone could be so small. The RAZR really was the iPhone before the iPhone. Everyone either had one or wanted one._*
Fun video, love seeing stuff like this
I talk about the Razr at least once a month. I miss that phone so much. If I could have that phone, and still get GPS, Spotify and play GBA Roms on it, I'd switch tomorrow.
Please do more reviews like this
I was the first one in my family to have a Razr when I was in my 20s and before six months every single family member of mine had also gotten themselves one. It was such a great phone. There is a new version out since 2020 that is a foldable screen, and then like a big smart phone when you pop it open.
Yes he mentions that in video about the newer foldable Razr models, but they are expensive, the screens are fairly fragile being made of such thin glass, and finding replacement parts can be a bit hard, plus being a bit tricky to work on as shown by Hugh Jefferies who does a lot of repair, and right to repair videos on his channel.
@@CommodoreFan64’s actually insane how expensive it is. There was a low chance I would upgrade from my iPhone 11 as I am so accustomed to IOS, but seeing that the Razr 2022 was just a touch below $2000 opposed to the iPhone 14 Pro Max coming in at just over $1500 AUD, it was a no brainer.
The camera on the Razr 2022 is just mediocre. Razr’s wide angle lenses are not great. Apparenntly the Razr 2022 has the highest megapixel count of smartphones, but despite this, the overall colour depth is not great and the overall phone is not worth 2k asking price.
Apple imo, still has the best phone cameras going around.
@@cbgg1585 I've personally never been an iPhone fan, as I like freedom of choice being able to customize my Android experience, to be able to sideload apps, and use alternative apps markets like F droid on Android(yes I actually do that), and I also don't care too much about the cameras on my phone as long as they are good enough. The most I've ever personally spent on a single phone was about 320 USD for a Motorola Moto G3 with a custom back plate, and case, usually I'm well under 300 USD. with my last phone an unlocked Nokia G50 I got for about 240 USD, and it does everything I need a phone to do, and then some.
@@cbgg1585 What about the new Google Pixel smart phones? It's been said their cameras are supposedly better than iPhones camera technology. I honestly doubt that's possible... Maybe better than the iPhone 15 plus's cameras, but I highly doubt it surpasses the iPhone 15 pro max's cameras, which is in comparison to the likes of professional quality photos and high tech video recording like the stuff movies are made of. If you go to Apples website and read the specks on the camera and video of the new iPhone 15 pro max it's quite impressive.
I’ve got my razr still. Beat the heck and back but it still takes a charge.
Those games do look awesome ! 4:00
I personally love old tech including phones.
Never had this Motorola myself 😅
I remember having a razor in blue when I was in college, and loved it. It was so slim, thought it was great, and did everything I needed at the time.
MJ can literally talk about anything and make it METAL AF 🤘🏻
I never had a Razr, though my mother had a Krzr, which was rather nice. The LG Chocolate, T-Mobile Sidekick II(a re-branded Danger Hiptop), and the phones that would open one way for calls and another way for text messages are the ones I'm most nostalgic about. I'm not really big on cell phones, but these are the ones I remember a lot of people I knew in middle/high school having as their first phone.
This represents a very sweet spot in technology. Just enough but not too much.
No way i could go back to t9 texting in 2024. Ide love to disconnect though.
I still kept my old Walkmen w995
As a kid I remember the Nokia N series like the N95-N97, Always loved the look. When a high end phone cost 500 pound
Back when phones had true meanings, fast speed, and designs.
The. Original. Motorola. Razr. Was. Beautiful. and. l. Miss. It.
I still have mine! i´d never let it go, bc i loved this Phone so much back then and today!
I absolutely LOVED my Razr. It was in my pocket and I was outside when it was raining and it ruined the phone. I never got another one, but it is still one my favorite phones I owned.
I had one of these and so did many of my friends. Seeing the graphics on the front screen gives me pure nostalgia. Im sure someday I will be saying the same thing about the iPhone I am typing on right now.
I remember my dad having this phone in like a matte black. I loved the look of these phones too.
Very cool video! I've definitely held onto plenty of phones through the years too, definitely bring back some memories.
Thanks for watching!
I had that phone too. A real piece of art.
My Dad worked at Motorola as a systems engineer for land mobile radios (not cell phones) through the 80s to the 2010s, I remember when the razor came out, it was a huge deal and he had one. Loved that design and the marketing campaign with ACDC's Back in Black. Something people forgot is the Razor did have data services for some type of web browsing, that was something super advanced at the time.
Our family also had the StarTac, which ended up becoming a toy for the kids as time went on 🤣
Motorola had some cutting edge products and still I think makes the best radios in the business, but boy did they fall from grace. The Razor was an attempt to win back the mobile market. This is a nice reminder of the bright spots.
Great video!!
I went to Europe for a month in 2006 with a Motorola Razr from T-Mobile and it worked perfectly everywhere I went.
True!! The phones from the early 2000's had such a class. Gadgets in general, each was unique and easily recognizable
The pink Verizon RAZR V3M was my very first phone when I was a toddler. I could navigate the menus without the need for a manual and LOVED playing the ringtones. I then "upgraded" to a BlackBerry 7105T on T-Mobile. I've been collecting phones ever since.
Jason the Star Tac was my first phone, then I got The RAZR. Brings back great memories!
In high school, i had the Motorola Krzr K1. Freaking loved that phone. Was feeling so nostalgic for it I ended up buying the 2020 Motorola Razr. I really love having a flip phone again.
My favourite back in the day was a Samsung D500 slide up phone with a tiny speaker provided that could be attached to the side of the device.
Flipping flip phone open with one hand used to be my pastime, its so satisfying if you nailed that before answering a call, especially if you do the flailing motion rather than only using your thumb to flip it up. I also used to own a Samsung flip phone that bounces upon dropping it, good old times.
Man just looking at this brings back nostalgia for me i absolutely loved my Motorola Razr Metal Jesus Rocks and bringing back old memories dearest to my heart i had the silver one such a great phone i did have the Nokia but it was all about the Razr for me.
Motorola Rokr was the first phone I ever got to pick out myself. I really liked that small slide out form factor.
I had a T720 back in the day before getting the RAZR. Then went to blackberry phones for awhile and then settling back with Motorola again for the past 6 years. I have the Motorola One right now and it's a fantastic midrange phone
Kudos to whoever came up with the idea for this phone
always great videos man i enjoy your work💪
I appreciate that!
I just found mine in a box. Miss the thing big time. It was good at being a phone without all the distractions we have today.
Still have this cellphone! Stopped using it 10 years ago
I didnt want to have a cellphone back in the day, until I saw someone using a black V3 and I immediately changed my mind. Such a sexy retro sci fi feel to it, and on top of it I remember you could hack in so many ways, like changing the picture on the external screen or the boot image etc.
That phone “OS” is super nostalgic. I haven’t seen those screens in years but it instantly brought me back. Never had the RAZR but my phone had the same version (maybe it came from Verizon?). Think I had a couple LGs and a Samsung back circa 2005-2011
My mom used to have a pink one, and I remember once she was watching some tv show on it in the waiting room of a dr office and everyone around us was blown away by it
I still have my old RAZR phones too. Sadly, I lost my startac phone. Now, what's cooler than a razr, the slim krzr (krazer) slimmer, smaller and still cool. The startac variant was called Vader, awesome phone and cool design. Thank you for the trip down memory lane.
You know this still works? I have one and it works with 2g still on T Mobile. I love mine! I also still have a rainbow StarTAC. That one is jacked to still work.
Timeless beauty 💖
These were hugely popular in the mid 2000's. Self incriminating story: I used to work for UPS during those times and partaking in easily stealing/sneaking them out the warehouse. Sold them for $60 each.
I was hoping to see you touch on the Krazr. I loved that dang thing!
I still use one here in the UK as my back up phone. It's always on me or in the car. It will work on the network here until at least 2033
My mom still has this in a drawer somewhere. 😂
I always loved the design as a kid.
The Razr was my first cellphone back when I was a freshman in high school. When I first saw one I knew I had to have it. It was actually quite practical for school too in that it fit nicely in my pockets without feeling awkward and clunky. It really seemed like the future back then, when phones were getting smaller and thinner. It seemed that the future of phones would eventually culminate to being phones that were essentially a sheet of glass, thin and small. And yeah, just about everyone was carrying Razrs back then. Then the first iPhone came out during my junior year and the paradigm at school shifted wildly. When once upon a time everyone seemed to be carrying Razrs they now all seemingly carried iPhones after its release. It was an interesting time seeing the birth of modern phones as we know them today.
At present I'm waiting for my new Galaxy Z Fold5 to deliver and so I'm taking a waltz through memory lane thinking back on my first phone. The Fold5 kinda reminds me of my old Razr in many ways. Thanks for this video as it was a nostalgic treat. I will have to find my Razr one day, it's boxed away somewhere at my place in some forgotten corner.
I loved my RAZR and was very upset the day it died because actually I left it on top of the dash of the truck and the sun cooked it the screens turned white. It was so cool to answer calls with the quick hand flip action
I remember that phone we all had in the early 2000s
I was one of those kids that had the Sprint Katana, instead of the Razr. Honestly, just because of its durability, I'm so glad I had the Katana. I knew a small number of people with broken Razr screens, so I was pretty happy.
3:36 the one on the left is v3m and the right one is a gsm version which is why the keypad is different
There are plenty of great J2ME games out there and it's probably one of the most underrated libraries. Quite a few AAA games also got demake such as Assassin's Creed or Call of Duty which I've found to be pretty fun.
Visited my parents house and saw my old razr in my closet. Charged it up and it still turns on.
Still had messages in it from high school friends and exes I haven’t talked to in decades. Was just slack jawed.
Some of the best phones I ever had were Sanyo Flip phones. I always had Sprint, so didn't have any Razr. I did have the HTC Mogul that was basically a pocket PC. When it worked. Wasn't the most reliable phone, but ahead of it's time
This and the Sidekick where so fun to use back in the day
I had a Copper Motorola i830 for years. Loved it!
I have a Razr V3XX and I loved it! It had a really nice and responsive UI, looked much better and smooth than the crud in the first V3. It also had a front camera when flipped out.
Back in the day I took my Trac phone Sim card into a Razor phone and it worked. I loved that phone
Loved mine - silver 2006 model. Used it till it broke in half at the hinge, then continued using it as the bottom/keypad dangled from the screen portion with a couple wires holding it together 😂
My first 3 cells were Motorola flip phones a Star Tac, Some metal cased Motorola flip phone, then a RAZR. Man how I loved that RAZR.
The original is why i have rhe new one now. I wanted one but never got the chance, but since purchasing the latest one, i have dound my dream cell phone., rhank you Motorola
This was one of my first phone! And after few weeks, i get drunk on a corporate party and lost in the taxi. :( After i buyed again and i used many years. This was one of the best phone of that age.
Thank you the great review Jesus!
This is a fantastic video
I used to have an older Motorola flip phone. It was before the Startac. I bought a car back in the 90's that had a cellphone mount installed. So I got the Motorola flip phone, and man. I think those cellphone plans were you got like only 30 minutes a month. I never really used the phone other than when I wanted to look cool.
Still have my Razr sitting in a drawer in my room lol. Love that phone!