True Story: When I was a kid my dad heard on the radio something about a free Razr at the mall. He actually went just to discover that it wasn’t a shaving razor and just a stinkin cell phone! 😂
The Razr is real iffy with charging! It uses standard mini-USB, yes. But the charging lead has a resistor in the plug to tell the phone it's a charger. So without that you wont have much luck. You can find working knockoff chargers at the bay of E's.
@adambevillI believe it was a shift of reliability. Mini made the plug skookum but the port suffered, so micro reversed that because it's easier to replace the cable
this threw me for a loop when i tried fixing up my razr from way back when a few months ago. glad i found the original charger in my junk drawer after a while
I had the V3 Razr in pink and I remember that it only had space for like 2 or 3 songs IF they didn't exceed 3MB. The fact that I could take photos with it closed was mind blowing to me. It had COLORS and 2 cameras? YES PLEASE. I loved this phone's design and to press random buttons on it because thery were SO sleek.
I think I had the OG, and I distinctly remember using up the majority of the storage space just to have the opening riff of slayer's raining blood as a ringtone
Oh. My God. I remember this beautiful flipping basto. I remember recording out a car window going 80 down a open highway and it flying out of my hand and bouncing across the pavement. Snapping shut as it landed, we turned around and came back to grab it. Picked it up and it was not only STILL RECORDING. it only had 3 scuffs on it.
Those Razr phones were absolute hotness in their day. When a phone was expected to... Make phone calls. Anything else was amazing. If I recall correctly, the camera was actually good for the time, n such a sleek bit of industrial design. The monolithic black slab we all carry around today, very lame. My mates were all nerds, we all had weird n wonderful telephony devices, definitely a competition as only teenage males can do. I never owned one myself, but mad respect at the Razr. Such a decent bit of kit.
My girlfriend in high school had one of these and she hated it with a passion and just wanted a "normal" phone. The only reason she had one was because her dad bought her the most expensive version he could find of anything she wanted/needed even if that wasn't the _kind_ she wanted in exchange for never leaving his office to be a parent. I bet you can guess how that relationship went; she taught me that beauty on the outside doesn't necessarily make its way inside.
I love old tech and let me tell you, the Siemens looks GORGEOUS. I have a couple of old Sony Ericssons and they work fantastically well.. still to this day I sometimes play old mobile games on them just 'cause of nostalgia and such.
I've always loved this phone-to this day by FAR my favourite cell phone, if all you need it for is calling people. So satisfying to snap it shut. But I've always had a soft spot for mid-2000's phones and bits of electronic jank, the same way I love ancient power tools; while things are usually easier to use once things hit the "optimum design" (Ie; screen rectangle for phones), things are so much more interesting when everyone is trying to figure out how things worked. Like-now one friend has a google and one has an Iphone-big deal, they've got nearly identical features and work the same way. But back when this came out people could roll up with ANYTHING-slide out keyboard? Sure. Folding? Yes. Weird form factors? Absolutely.
I used to have this exact model (right down to the colour). Loved it still the best mobile I ever owned! Only thing the iTunes link up was kind of a gimmick, it had internal space for like 1 song, and no expandable storage (not even kidding)
That colour phone's batter probably still worked because it was some sort of nickel battery. Ive got a nickel metal hydride 4 cell pack for an rc plane i have never charged since i got it out of a plane my dad found renovating a house. It still has enough of a charge to activate all of the servos and the receiver when I flip it on.
These were the absolute coolest phone you could have back in 2005. I remember my mom got one of the pink ones and I'd always take it just to look at. Times change, but phones (and technology as a whole) feels a lot less exciting than it did in the early 2000s.
I used to be able to power old phones by taking out the battery and plugging in the charger. Not sure if it works on all phones, but Nokia used to be able to do that.
Thank God for these man. Been in a roughed spot after not getting a call for a wildland fire apprenticeship this year despite being told tons of spots were open. Would probably be back to the bottle if I didn’t have these distracting me right now. God bless you Wade, on ya
I believe in you stranger!! proud of you for staying strong even in the face of hardship too. you'll get that apprenticeship right when you're meant to, and this year it will happen!!
my mom and sister had one of these model Motorola Razor phones in 2000’s my mom still has hers found if you don’t have the OEM charger or a generic replacement copy of the original charger or it will not charge and the only way we can get it to charge on the third-party cable is if you use a PC and charge it from the USB port off a computer
This was THE phone. This was the first cell phone I remember "everyone" wanted or had. People had phones before, of course. But the Razr was the first time that I remember people talking about a SPECIFIC phone. It was the first time I remember people pulling out their phone not just to brag about having a cell phone in school at all, but to show off WHICH cell phone they had. It was the evolution of phones being "wow, you have your own cell phone!" to "Wow, you have THAT cell phone!"
This is by far one of my two favorite phones of all time (Other being the Blackberry Curve) and it is in a museum now. I'm not kidding . I would love to have one even though they won;t work anymore in the US. Just to have it!
My first phone was one of these. Now that I think of it, I remember it always complaining "invalid battery" for the little time I had it. It lasted like a week or so, then it broke down and never turned on again. After all it was used for 2 or 3 years before I got it.
@dankpods, on the off chance you see this, take out the battery from the back. Most phones back then work on just the wall cord plugged into the phone and no battery. My project red razr still works this way. Good luck!!
First it was the sprint flip phone that made that satisfying click when you opened and closed it then it was this one. Those were the two gotta have it flip phones when I was a kid before touch screen was ever a thing.
My dad has the exact phone back then! That phone is still somewhere in the house but unfortunately it doesn't work anymore. The included earphones are super uncomfortable tho but they're made ok
someone in my family had one of these just laying around. i used to pretend it was a phone from the future due to how cool it looked. it was long dead and was eventually either lost or thrown out.
Old Motorolas used a proprietary usb charger. You can’t charge them with a normal usb. That probably the reason why it’s not working (also the battery is probably cooked)
Funny thing is I actually took mine to a grinding disc, and filed the top of the phone to a razor edge. So you can technically shave with it. This was after I use the phone and moved on from it.
Dead ass, I had one of these as a kid and it was unbreakable. Over time both the back and front screens had not only broken, but were gone completely. I could stick my finger through the phone. IT STILL WORKED. Obviously I couldn't see what I was doing but it still sent and received calls and (I imagine) texts. After that my grandpa had got me a blackberry and that thing was.. interesting lol. I'm not even sure what happened to that thing, it's like this weird little blip in my life lol
I've had so many Razrs throughout history, from when I was in high school in the 00s all the way up through 2017 when my poor v9x handed it in. And the networks that supported them are offline in America, so I can't do anything with any of my old ones or anything.
My mom was late to cell phone adoption, and within 2 years she had one of these given to her by a coworker even though to her it was just a phone the same as any other. Was always so jealous.
This was I think the second phone I owned? Don't recall the mini USB being used for the head phones. Now I've come full circle and I'm watching this on the new Razr and this does NOT have a audio jack at all!
One of my favorite mobile games was in this Moto Razr. It's named Crazy, and it is like subterranean warfare. You blast the ground and try to hit each other. Think of it like the Worms game.
German technology 👌😂 I had a Siemens C45 as a teen (I didn't want a Nokia, because every bastard in school had one, even in Germany) and I loved it so much and had it for four years, before I bought a Sony Ericsson from my first proper salary. I gifted the Siemens to a neighbour of my grandparents and it worked another three (!) years with the same battery. This phone refused to die. 😊 My replacement phone is a Nokia 8210 from 1999, my mom had it in a cardboard box in the (fortunately dry as a bone) basement, forgot about it and found it in 2021 during moving and gifted it to me with the charger cable and it came to life after 20 minutes recharging. The battery lost a lot of it's capacity and I bought a new one, but the phone still works a charm. And a lot of smartphones don't survive three years nowadays.
Try this for old nuggets with invalid battery issue or a battery with a cross, pull the battery out, take a toothbrush and wet it with water and apply a little soap to the toothbrush, then brush the golden contact terminals of the battery and wipe with a towel. use alcohol or perfume on a towel to clean the pins of the device. works like a charm everytime. the nugget will take a charge and the battery starts to work.
So, I went to the phone display case in my workshop, grabbed my ancient black Razer and a USB shite-cable, plugged it in, and.... she's charging. :) To this day, I think it's my favourite phone of all time. I started with the Moto Briefcase, then a Brick, and then ALL the flip phones, finishing with the Razer. Edit: It started up after a few minutes of charging!
This was my first one without the iTunes unfortunately. I still have mine, not sure it turns on but it still looks beautiful. I remember the headphones 😂
My dad used to have a Siemens (pronounced as zee-mens or can by misheard it as some sticky gooey thing) C65. The OS is kinda sluggish but it's kinda sturdy, like some sort of German engineering thing.
Speaking of weird battery problems I have a Game boy advance SP and the battery works perfectly fine but yet I had to buy a new battery for my New Nintendo 3DS XL.
Are you sure that travel adapter is supposed to be used like that? Looks like you've plugged the european plug into the earth for UK/USA/AU plugs, and the other prong into maybe the center earth for Italian plugs? Might explain killing one of the lights. Could be wrong (and it would be amazing if that battery still had a charge) but I just can't figure out how one hole could be both earth and live.
I used mine 15 years and yeah the batteries are their weakness, both mine got unusable thanks to their batteries and even replacement batteries didn't helped, though it lasted 15 years
Man I remember having this one for the longest. Loved it. That 1.5 camera was actually decent. Furthermore the thing was indestructible, I dropped it on wet snow, the squishy dirty black snow that gathers outside of an apartment building at pick hour... ALL NIGHT! I realize I dropped it in the morning and went for it looking... Started calling it and bam... There it is not giving a single fuck... And not a single text or call lol
also it’s sad how many of these phones are working great condition but bricked because you can’t get service on them no more so they just sit lying around and one day And imagine how many people threw away phones and like these and wasted them because I couldn’t get service for them no more
True story: I nicked one of the fake display models of these from a really old phone shop and walked around for about a good month pretending it worked. I was like 7, give me a break.
