What happened to the RAZRs
 

Looked at this article recently about US mobile market share, and it surprised me how far Motorola has slipped, but also a reminder that most of the world do not use smart phones even in the hi tech US of A, (RIM 7% therefore Apple prob at 5%).

Or another way to look at it, there is still a big market to convert to the smartphone cause.

http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events...r_Market_Share

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Without app-stores\digital assets, it's much easier to drop your handset and sync your minimal data to a new one.

Now there's a much bigger lock-in\tie-in to the platform that you've 'invested' in.

Edit: Er... I meant to say, that was part of the reason that RAZRs (and the multitude of candystick phones) were easy to leave behind and migrate to a new platform without strings attached.

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The RAZR was horrible though. OK, so it did fit in my pocket very easily, but that was the only thing going for it. I gave mine away after a couple of months.

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I hated my RAZR, hated the SLVR... but for a phone that they were basically giving away on contract, it's better than some other piece o' craptacular specials out there now.

I'd take metal construction over plastic any day.

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It was interesting how the world went mad over flip phones at the time.

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I still think they are a very good idea for a base phone. Even if its a landscape implementation like the Nintendo DS. I always loved the protection it added to the internal screen from being cracked (Ironically cracked the outside screen on 3 flip phones... and on my N900... but never an internal screen).

Never, however, had a RAZR... as they were never available on prepaid in Australia (and up until a year or two ago... that was all I needed).

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its called the razr burn.
people got bored of it :P

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Oh how the mighty have fallen. The RAZR was once the most desirable business phone. But in a rapidly-moving market you need to keep innovating, and Motorola lost the plot.

I didn't get a RAZR until they became dirt cheap on prepay. I paired it with my N800 for 2G web browsing until I got a 3G phone. Now my daughter uses my old RAZR.

PS: I'll say one thing for the RAZR, its mini-USB socket is (mechanically) solid as a rock.

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I loved my RAZR, I got it used from my sister and had it for a year before I switched to the N95, it was the only Motorola phone I've ever owned (and IMO if we don't count the Droid and Droid x the only good one) it was built like a tank, it fell, slid, got burnt, wet, dusty, had things dropped on it and it did not die. In the very end, it had a speaker fault where there would be a small buzz whenever it was open and its frame was scratched and used up like all hell and it still worked the same way as when I had it. It was one hell of a phone in its time. Such a shame that its time went by so quickly.
http://ahcel.files.wordpress.com/200...r_v3_bluea.jpg
This is the one I had. You know, they say good design is timeless and I still love its design. Motorola's industrial style always clicked with me, which is also why I like the N900's design (which mixed an industrial look with that nice curved style)

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the world?