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Here’s to the Motorola Razr — the late, great fashionable dumbphone

A woman in a velour track suit reaching in her back pocket for her Motorola Razr. She has a tribal Motorola Razr tattoo on her lower back.
Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

Is it possible for a phone to have “pretty privilege”? Mediocre features and functionality be damned, the original Motorola Razr V3 and its successors dominated the US cellphone market for four years following its 2004 release — up to and including the iPhone’s introduction in 2007 — seemingly on vibes and aesthetics alone. Not to glamorize consumerism or anything, but I miss it terribly.

I was 11 years old when the Razr launched and probably among the first generation of kiddies that begged their parents to buy them a cellphone. We weren’t really the target demographic before that — cellphones had mostly been bulky, boring things primarily for working adults. SMS texting had just become something that everyone did day-to-day, and mobile…

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