Sweet and divine, Razr of mine

Folding phones have had an already chequered history, but Motorola’s new Razr phone seems to be both agreeably retro and absolutely cutting edge (and that’s my favourite self-penned headline of the year).

From RedShark. Read the full thing here. Snippet follows:

Okay, hands up who remembers the clamshell phone? For those too young or who have just tried to edit it out of their memory, the clamshell was for a brief period of time one of the coolest mobile phone designs around. This was, of course, pre iPhone and the inevitable dominance of the mobile slab that was the consequence of larger and more capable touchscreens; a time when manufacturers came up with all sorts of ways to provide you with an-ever smaller device that could fit comfortably in your pocket and still function as a phone.

The Razr was probably the best of the bunch and for a brief period in 2005 was the achingly cool mobile accessory du jour. To see it return is something of a surprise, but the fact that it’s not just a retro throwback but features probably the best implementation of a folding screen we’ve seen yet is probably the biggest surprise of all (okay, widely leaked, so not that much of a surprise; but you get the point).