Motorola’s new Razr phones feel like a push back into the big leagues

This won’t mean much to you if the Lord of the Rings movies came out when you were a toddler, but for a few brief years, the Motorola Razr V3 was the coolest cellphone you could get. It’s not that it was much better than other phones on a practical level — this was, after all, an era when phones were still mostly for calls and texts. No, it was all about style, since the V3 was a stylish, ultra-thin flip phone made of aluminum, at a time when many phones were still essentially plastic bricks. The V3 was so popular that I remember seeing giant banners for it hanging in my local movie theater.