There aren't many products in the world that have been produce for so long that they bridged right from the "modern" to "ho-hum" to "retro chic" categories without ever pausing production (actually, the hula hoop is the only one that comes immediately to mind). A year ago, it was cool to hate on the debilitating age Motorola's original
RAZR V3 and the fact that it was still being sold in countless shops and by countless carriers around the world; now, though, it's gone on so long that we've got to wonder whether there's some magical, hidden force at play here that will keep this phone on shelves and in hearts until the very end of time. Evidence of that certainly exists in the freshly-launched LuK Hot Pink edition, an apparent follow-on to the
LuK launched back in February of this year with 7.2Mbps HSDPA, video call capability, Bluetooth, and that's about it. At a price under 500,000 won (about $400) on carrier
SKT, it doesn't seem like a particularly good deal -- but then again, if you look at it as a perfect replica of a vintage collectible device, maybe it's a downright steal.
posted Jul 24th 2009 1:02PM
Slap a hello kitty motif on that thing and profit.
That's just embarrassing.
PPL can hate on the RAZR all they want. Timeless designs are just that. Like a 57 Chevy or a late 60's Mustang.
Thank you.
Moto is only banking on what it knows will sell.
This is not the same old RAZR.
Everything has been amplified.
This "RAZR" is probably more advanced than most of the phones in the United States today.
Except that AT&T may very well remove everything that makes it so advanced (they don't support two-way videocalling yet, remember?) if it gets sold in America.
yeah... but the Mustang was a good car. This is Trabant dressed to look like a Mustang.
Who on earth would pay $400 for something like this? It was ugly then and it's ugly now.
All joking aside, the original RAZR was one phenominal device in it's day. The sales numbers will attest to that. Moto should be a case study from that point until now of how to destroy your lead in the marketplace. Down like an anchor.
They could be a case study for how to drop your money into marketing and not enough into R&D to make those things actually work.
This phone would have been epic except for the fact hat reliability wise, it was really only good as a paperweight.
But yes... Good study on 'How to Ruin a Company 101'
-M.
Not that anyone cares, but the first line should read ". . . that have been produce_d_ for so long . . ."
Never once had a problem with my old Razr or the Platinum one. The Razr 2 on the other hand was a piece of crap.