The original Motorola Razr was GREAT...and I miss it.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 มิ.ย. 2024
- I want to introduce you to one of my first tech loves…the original Motorola Razr. The Motorola RAZR V3 is a sleek and iconic mobile phone that gained immense popularity upon its release. Launched in 2004, it revolutionized the mobile phone industry with its slim, clamshell design and metallic finish. The RAZR V3 boasted a vibrant internal color screen and a smaller external display for notifications. With its innovative keypad layout and precision craftsmanship, it offered a satisfying tactile experience. Equipped with a VGA camera, Bluetooth connectivity, and expandable memory, it was considered cutting-edge for its time. The RAZR V3's timeless design and exceptional build quality solidified its status as a classic, earning it a place in the hearts of many technology enthusiasts and becoming an iconic symbol of the early 2000s mobile revolution.
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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.
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
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.
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 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.
Those cell phones are a blast from the past.
It was and still is so beautiful. The electroluminescent keypad was so futuristic looking.
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!
Very cool video! I've definitely held onto plenty of phones through the years too, definitely bring back some memories.
Thanks for watching!
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.
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!
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.
always great videos man i enjoy your work💪
I appreciate that!
Fun video, love seeing stuff like this
I had that too, and I still have all my phones. Great phone for sure. Good times, good times❤️
I also had a Razr Back in the day ♥️ really nice video. Always appreciate the diversity of your content. Also a reason why I am still here after so many years joining in the pre-beard era ✌🏻
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.
This is a fantastic video
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 remember having one of these, it was a great cell phone.
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.
Those games do look awesome ! 4:00
I personally love old tech including phones.
Never had this Motorola myself 😅
I still kept my old Walkmen w995
I remember this one! A friend had it and I was jealous it looked so cool
MJ can literally talk about anything and make it METAL AF 🤘🏻
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!!
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 was hoping to see you touch on the Krazr. I loved that dang thing!
I’ve got my razr still. Beat the heck and back but it still takes a charge.
Whoa!!! Great vid. My first was that same StarTAC also. I had it for 2 days and lost it down the ocean. One of my favorite phones i had was the Virgin Mobile Kyocera Slider V5 Mtv Edition. I had it for a while till I went down the ocean and got sand in it and it stopped sliding open and closed.
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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 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.
Cool video. I still have a few of those from years ago.
Kudos to whoever came up with the idea for this phone
Anyone else remember tv commercials advertising monthly ringtone subscriptions? Like people were so obsessed with having cool ringtones back then, they would pay monthly to get unlimited ringtone downloads and download the hottest trending ringtones.
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.
Timeless beauty 💖
Probably still one of my favorite phones I ever had!!! Nice and sleek, unlike the long bricks we have today
Phones had unique designs then. Now you own one you own them all
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.
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
I had the orange and black Razr for a company phone for a while it was really tough and durable I dropped it off a roller coaster and it still worked.I love that phone!
My first phone was a hot pink Razor in middle school! Loved that thing.
I still have mine! i´d never let it go, bc i loved this Phone so much back then and today!
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.
I had that phone too. A real piece of art.
I went to Europe for a month in 2006 with a Motorola Razr from T-Mobile and it worked perfectly everywhere I went.
Jason the Star Tac was my first phone, then I got The RAZR. Brings back great memories!
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.
That last razor was my first phone, it was definitely better than all those you had already showed. I suppose my parents tossed it at some point over the years, all the pictures gone! But it came with 2 or 3 cute games and was to this day one of my favorite phones ever
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.
Orces & Elves!! I bought that on DS on your recommendation and LOVED it. Can't believe it popped up on this vid too! P.S my phone of nostalgia is the Nokia 3300. Still remember playing rayman on that :)
True!! The phones from the early 2000's had such a class. Gadgets in general, each was unique and easily recognizable
Please do more reviews like this
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
my dad had one, I was always so envious of it even though I had a cool phone myself, an LG with a built in MP3 player. The razer is just so gosh darn pretty. I bought one in red recently on ebay just to have one in my collection :)
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 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.
Very nostalgic, great video I will say the brand new one is amazing too foldable phones are becoming way better and affordable I switch to one and love it
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.
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.
What a beauty!
Agree. Loved that phone. 📞🥰 Hello Moto!
had one of these razrs, awesome
Yes, this phone was amazing. I had a matte black one through AT&T. They really were great phones. Weight, size, and usability. It looked futuristic, then the iPhone happened, and changed everything.
I remember the Razr was the first phone I could install apps onto. I had an SSH client and I could log into my desktop computer from anywhere. It was so slow but I loved it.
I remember my dad having this phone in like a matte black. I loved the look of these phones too.
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.
My mom still has this in a drawer somewhere. 😂
I always loved the design as a kid.
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.
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 was fortunate enough to have my MOM & DAD buy me a Rzr for my 16th B-Day & I LOVED that thing‼️ I had EVERYONE jealous in HighSchool 😂
I believe it was the smallest phone when it released lol
That’s when technology was trying to shrink, now it seems like we’re going in a completely opposite direction these days 😆
Another great vid by MJ‼️
Just found my Razr yesterday in a box. Bought it in 2005, lasted until iPhone 1 in 07. Stunned that it still works… charging was fine, it turned on without an issue. It shows “NO SIM” so I couldn’t navigate. The camera was comically awful, LOL. I DO have a few photos from this phone still…tiny thumbnail size pics, Coldplay concert in 2005…but you can’t even tell what it is from the photos. 🤷🏻♂️😆. Still loved this phone back in the day…transferring files using a BT dongle on PC was pretty cool’s back then.
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 😂
Motorola Rokr was the first phone I ever got to pick out myself. I really liked that small slide out form factor.
This and the Sidekick where so fun to use back in the day
Wow! Man I absolutely loved my Razr. Sleek metal case with a Dark matte grey finish. Big beautiful screen inside and a cool small outside screen you could set a short video clip on. Played Splinter Cell on that thing for hours. Had a Slipknot ringtone. Still one of my favorite phones that I have ever had. And now I need to go dig it out of the junk drawer and fire it back up for that sweet, sweet nostalgia hit.
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
I definitely had one. Was great for the time
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.
Still have this cellphone! Stopped using it 10 years ago
*_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._*
My favorite phone. Got two over a few years (early 2000's). I still have both 😊
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.
The design aesthetic was brilliant, really sleek. Was so slim in the pocket too
I had a Copper Motorola i830 for years. Loved it!
I remember that phone we all had in the early 2000s
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.
I had a Panasonic flip phone back in the day it was the best 🙏🏽
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.
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No...YOU ROCK! 😎
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
Still have my Razr sitting in a drawer in my room lol. Love that phone!
Yeah buddy! I worked at a big box electronics store around then. I had the razr the v phone the sidekick. Remember the razr commercial how it was so razer thin they had it stuck in the table like someone threw it and it stuck like a throwing knife. Thanks for the trip back to the 00s 😊