New York artist Kyle M. F. Williams bought 44 Razr phones from a seller on eBay and is making a book of the pictures he found on them.
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New York artist Kyle M. F. Williams bought 44 Razr phones from a seller on eBay and is making a book of the pictures he found on them.
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Found in my parents basement: a RAZR v3i with the box! So thin!!
That iTunes + Cingular box is really funny.
The last non-iPhone I had. I remember being so excited to get this just so I could take pictures. 0.3 megapixel pictures or something like that, mind you.
My version did not have iTunes integration. I had a wait a year or so for Verizon to test and approve it for use on the network. Do not miss those days. But wow, how Motorola has fallen.
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Speaking of Motorola and RAZRs — they’re still up to their old tricks. Seriously, who would buy this? Front looks like a somewhat shitty iPhone rip-off with a tiny screen, but head over to BGR and look at the inner-UI. It looks just like my RAZR circa 2005.
I mean, seriously.
The two key quotes:
However, it has lost its position as the largest U.S. maker of phones to Apple Inc. Motorola sold a total of 8.5 million phones in the quarter, while Apple sold 8.8 million iPhones.
and, maybe crazier:
Four years ago, when the Razr was still popular, Motorola sold 46.1 million phones in the first quarter.