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I always preferred the follow up, the Razr 2 V9. Came a year or less before the iPhone I think. Ran some version of Linux, with lots more storage and SD slot,

I always preferred the follow up, the Razr 2 V9. Came a year or less before the iPhone I think. Ran some version of Linux, with lots more storage and SD slot, and if I can remember much slicker menus than the v3. There was some way of getting shell access too. Finally enough storage to use for music sometimes, and an effective touch interface to the music player when closed on the mini screen. Trouble is it had no 3.5 jack and a terrible usb headphone dongle, designed to break every three uses, and catch on something every 5 minutes, making it useless as music player. What a waste. Build quality that means my very heavily used 12 year old phone still looks and feels new except for losing the little plastic charge port cover. Can't get batteries reliably now though so it's not even an emergency backup for much longer.

bri3d 8y ago
Didn't the V9 run P2K/Triplets, while the V8 ran Linux?
- NeedMoreTea 8y ago
  You may be right, and I may be mixing up between the two. They looked identical aside from software menus. I know I had one and the wife the other thanks to being on different networks.
ollie87 8y ago
Funnily enough I had an older sibling to this line of "nearly" smartphones, the RIZR Z8 which came out a year before the RAZR V9. It was Symbian powered, had an ARM CPU and a PowerVR GPU - that's a common pairing now but back then was still fairly rare. Thing it has in common with the RAZR V9 was the lack of headphone jack, but it did come with a pair of stereo bluetooth headphones. Again, Motorola were way ahead of their time in a lot of ways. I really loved that phone, I grabbed it when my Nokia N81 died (that was a piece of crap like all the Nokia Symbian phones). Had a great battery life and awesome call quality. It was the last phone I had before the first iPhone launched. I seem to remember the advertisement for it had a link to the Jason Bourne films.

bri3d 8y ago

Didn't the V9 run P2K/Triplets, while the V8 ran Linux?

NeedMoreTea 8y ago
You may be right, and I may be mixing up between the two. They looked identical aside from software menus. I know I had one and the wife the other thanks to being on different networks.

ollie87 8y ago

Funnily enough I had an older sibling to this line of "nearly" smartphones, the RIZR Z8 which came out a year before the RAZR V9. It was Symbian powered, had an ARM CPU and a PowerVR GPU - that's a common pairing now but back then was still fairly rare. Thing it has in common with the RAZR V9 was the lack of headphone jack, but it did come with a pair of stereo bluetooth headphones. Again, Motorola were way ahead of their time in a lot of ways. I really loved that phone, I grabbed it when my Nokia N81 died (that was a piece of crap like all the Nokia Symbian phones). Had a great battery life and awesome call quality. It was the last phone I had before the first iPhone launched. I seem to remember the advertisement for it had a link to the Jason Bourne films.