I’ve been clearing out my “old, discarded tech” draw which has a bunch of mobile phones dating back to 1997 in it.
My favourite from my draw is a Motorola Razr flip phone. Back in the day when I still made phone calls, and SMS was the only asynchronous messaging platform, it did everything I expected of a phone, it was tiny by modern standards, and the design was really nice to use.
It still feels somehow futuristic today between the flip-out nature and the unique numeric keyboard. If we can get to the point a modern touchscreen pocket supercomputer with terrestrial and satellite connectivity (ie a modern Apple or Android mobile device) folds away to the side of a Razr when not in use, we truely will be living in the future. Foldable screens are getting there but robustness has some way to go, and it would need fold along a second axis to reach folded Razr proportions….
An honourable mention goes to the Psion 5 MX from my draw which booted up first time on a pair of fresh AA batteries and still has a lot of my old work on it.
What is the defining mobile phone from your past, and why?
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