Motorola RAZR

The Motorola RAZR was a flip phone built to look sleek, expensive, and cooler than whatever brick was in your pocket before it. It was basically industrial design doing flirting.

It showed that phones were becoming lifestyle objects, not just communication tools. The RAZR made design feel like the whole point, and people absolutely bought into it.

Touchscreen smartphones changed the game so hard that ultra-stylish flip phones started looking like artifacts from a more glamorous but less app-filled age.

The RAZR still gets remembered because it nailed that exact moment when a phone could be pure status and pure fun at the same time.