Yahoo News Motorola’s iconic RAZR flip phone is coming back… but with a difference
Motorola’s RAZR phone was a noughties fashion icon – and the king of flip phones, with eventual worldwide sales of 130 million units.
Now it’s coming back, with the flip phone set to be relaunched in a very hi-tech new version with a foldable touchscreen, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The phone is set to be a limited edition of just 200,000 created by tech company Lenovo and Motorola, and will be a ‘premium’ device costing up to $1,500 (£1,100).
It’s one of several folding smartphone devices slated for release this year, with Samsung also promising a Galaxy phone with a folding screen.
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Old-style flip phones are also having something of a comeback.
Celebrities such as Jake Gyllenhaal and Kim Kardashian have been pictured with the devices – and one feature described flip phones as ‘the new vinyl.’
Relaunched phone such as the Binatone Blade (which looks similar to Motorola’s hit RAZR) launched in the wake of the success of relaunched handsets such as Nokia’s 3310.
Analysts Gartner have said that the boom is partly driven by older phone users who don’t want all the features of smartphones – and that Western Europe could be next for a flip-phone comeback.
