Motorola Razr (styled RAZR, pronounced "razor") is a series of mobile phones by Motorola, part of the 4LTR line. They were first developed in July 2003 and were released in the market in the third quarter of 2004. The V3 was the first and main phone of the series.

Because of its striking appearance and thin profile, it was initially marketed as an exclusive fashion phone, but within a year, its price was lowered and it was wildly successful, selling over 50 million units by July 2006. Over the Razr's four-year run, the V3 model sold more than 130 million units, becoming the best-selling clamshell phone in the world to date.

The Razr series was marketed until July 2007, when the succeeding Motorola Razr2 series was released. Marketed as a more sleek and more stable design of the Razr, the Razr 2 included more features, improved telephone audio quality, and a touch sensitive external screen. The new models were the V8, the V9, and the V9m. However, Razr² sales were not as good as the original, with consumers moving to competing products. Because Motorola relied so long upon the Razr and its derivatives and was slow to develop new products in the growing market for feature-rich touchscreen and 3G phones, the Razr appeal declined, leading Motorola to eventually drop behind Samsung and LG in market share for mobile phones. Motorola's strategy of grabbing market share by selling tens of millions of low-cost Razrs cut into margins and resulted in heavy losses in the cellular division.

The Motorola Razr3 (often stylized as RAZR³) is a series of clamshell/flip mobile phones from Motorola. It is the successor to the popular RAZR (and RAZR²) series. It is the first touch-screen phone of RAZR series, and was set to be released in late 2009.

The Razr3 consisted of one prototype model, the VE1. Due to Motorola's move to Android by late 2009, the Razr3's Worldwide release was cancelled. However, the phone was released in South Korea by SK Telecom in late 2009 as model V13, featuring CDMA instead of GSM/HSDPA. The Razr3 featured Symbian UIQ as operating system, an external touchscreen, and a 5.0 megapixel camera with an LED flash.

V13

The RAZR³ V13 was released in November 2009 exclusively to South Korea. As of November 6, 2009, SK Telecom had offered the V13 model. It has 303 MB on board memory, an external touchscreen, EVDO speeds and a 5.0 megapixel camera with auto focus and LED flash.

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The Motorola Razr2 (often stylized as RAZR²) is a series of clamshell/flip mobile phones from Motorola, and is one of the series in the 4LTR line. It is the successor to the popular Razr series. The Razr2 is 2 mm thinner than its predecessor but slightly wider. Some versions feature Motorola's MotoMagx operational platform, based on the MontaVista Linux OS. The Razr2 was made available on every US carrier, and EVDO, GSM and HSDPA versions of it were released by late 2007.

The phone improved picture quality, speed and multimedia capabilities over the original Razr. It also featured an external screen with touch sensitive buttons which allowed users to use some of the phone features without opening the flip, and Motorola's CrystalTalk technology to improve call quality and help reduce background noise. Different color variants were released, including a Luxury Edition Razr2.

V8

The GSM version of the Razr2, the Razr2 V8 was released in July 2007 around the World. As of October 15, 2007, T-Mobile had offered the V8 model. It has 420 MB on board memory, but a 2 GB on board memory version was also released. It also features EDGE, a 500 MHz processor and a 2.0" QVGA external display with touch sensitive buttons which allowed users to play music through this screen without opening the phone.