My First Phone - Motorola RAZR V3C

Описание: Let's take a trip back to 2005 to look at poor quality photos, play Java games, and appreciate good industrial design!

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The year is 2006, and little 13 year old Mitchell just got his first phone. And I didn't just want any phone- I, like anyone my age at the time, was drawn to the stylish, thin as hell, Motorola Razr. Just look at this thing! I love the anodized metal finsh, it's pretty tough. Mine has seen some serious shit, but its still kicking! I think it goes these scratches when fell out of my pocket onto an ashpault road while I was biking. Yeah, try that with an iPhone and let me know how it goes. Maybe it's just nostalgia, but I think this design is SO cool! It's extremely thin today's standards at half an inch thin. The clamshell design is so damn satisfying to close, I remember just sitting at my friends houses and doing this all the time. This thing is addicting! It's keyboard feels so clicky and good- and look at how it lights up! I mean, T9 is brutal to type with but theres not much you can do about that.

It's battery lasted for literal days in standby, which is hard to imagine today, but even that was expected on a phone 14 years ago. I gotta give Moto props for the using the standard mini USB port over a propreitary one.

This is the RAZR V3C, and what sets it apart from the original, more common V3 model is the camera bump! Thats right, Motorola was doing camera bumps before they were cool! The extra space apparently allowed them to cram a 1.2 megapixel shooter into there, up from the 0.3 megapixel or VGA resolution of the V3. How is the camera? Well, regardless of its glass lens and relatively high resolution, I would say its not great, even for the time. It's certainly passable in daylight though. There's digital zoom (which is really just cropping), which interestingly just straight up makes the photo smaller instead of blowing up the zoomed portion. Meaning, the resolution of your photo depends on how much you were zoomed in. Interesting. It's def far the worst camera phone ever made, but looking at these photos, I sort of mildly wish I just had a point and shoot with me instead. You can store around 130 photos on the RAZR's 30mb, non expandible storage- which yes, was also abysmal at the time. That means my phone was constandly jam packed with data, with no easy way to offload it. You could only store 100 messages total too, which means you were constantly deleting everything.

Video on the hand, is laughably bad. Like so bad. Augh, jesus that's not good! Video was limited to something like 30 seconds, you can barely make out what you're looking at in this 176-by-144, 15 frames-per-second, compressed to hell video. It's kind of frustrating, I wish I had a better record of these memories... but, that was standard for the time. And that's kind of the thesis of this phone- it's a standard Motorola phone in an extremely pretty package.

I can't show you the web browser, but it's hard to describe how much of a difference the last 10 years have made in the mobile web department. The WAP web browser just... wasn't something people used. Especially considering the cost of data back then. Everything web related you did with texting for the most part! I had MSN messenger, Twitter, and YouTube all hooked up with their respective SMS services, and thats how you got messages out. You could even upload videos to YouTube via MMS!