As Y2K tech nostalgia reenters modern trends, we wistfully look back to the cellphone industry’s original skinny legend.
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.
The luxurious price may have actually boosted the Razr’s status. The original Razr was launched to a crowd of fashion journalists, not tech bloggers, at the Arken Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen. The device was then cleverly marketed as a celebrity must-have, promoted by everyone from Paris Hilton to Bono.
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