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Motorola's Legendary RAZR Flip Phone Is Making a Comeback (engadget.com)
An anonymous reader shares an Engadget article: The year was 2004, and Motorola had just announced what was then an insanely thin flip phone, the RAZR V3. It was -- and still is -- a head-turner, and eventually over 130 million units were sold in total. Such were the glorious days of Motorola. Twelve years later, the now Lenovo-owned brand appears to be prepping a relaunch of this legendary model, according to its teaser video of a nostalgic walkthrough at a high school.The teaser is available on YouTube. Nice of Motorola to try doing something different from most of its rivals. However, a flip phone -- with a tiny display and those buttons (assumption) -- may not have much of practical case in 2016.
New part of the hipster uniform --
Muslim-style beard
Thick, black glasses
Flip Phone
You forgot:
skinny jeans (black, of course)
plaid shirt (the kind your grandad owned)
vinyl LP (carried ostentatiously under the arm)
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Someone just needs to make a $25 gutless version of this that connects via bluetooth to the iPhone in the hipsters' pocket.