After Show: The Razr phone.

No really, why can't I shave with it.
Sorry about the mid-rolls now days 😣, may these After Shows make up for it!

[ColtonKiefer]

True Story: When I was a kid my dad heard on the radio something about a free Razr at the mall. He actually went just to discover that it wasn’t a shaving razor and just a stinkin cell phone! 😂

[SmartGuy-Tech]

Never seen so many dankpods uploads in one day… ever

[Hadcrash]

The Razr is real iffy with charging! It uses standard mini-USB, yes. But the charging lead has a resistor in the plug to tell the phone it's a charger. So without that you wont have much luck. You can find working knockoff chargers at the bay of E's.

[punking]

Oh. My God. I remember this beautiful flipping basto. I remember recording out a car window going 80 down a open highway and it flying out of my hand and bouncing across the pavement. Snapping shut as it landed, we turned around and came back to grab it. Picked it up and it was not only STILL RECORDING. it only had 3 scuffs on it.

[OOZ]

My girlfriend in high school had one of these and she hated it with a passion and just wanted a "normal" phone. The only reason she had one was because her dad bought her the most expensive version he could find of anything she wanted/needed even if that wasn't the _kind_ she wanted in exchange for never leaving his office to be a parent. I bet you can guess how that relationship went; she taught me that beauty on the outside doesn't necessarily make its way inside.

[nerdcactuslegs]

I had the V3 Razr in pink and I remember that it only had space for like 2 or 3 songs IF they didn't exceed 3MB. The fact that I could take photos with it closed was mind blowing to me. It had COLORS and 2 cameras? YES PLEASE. I loved this phone's design and to press random buttons on it because thery were SO sleek.

[DBenz]

3:18
Dankpods: “Oh shut up!”
Razr: shuts off
Dankpods: “Oi! Oh you piece of junk!”

😂😂😂😂😂

[DevirothS]

I love old tech and let me tell you, the Siemens looks GORGEOUS.
I have a couple of old Sony Ericssons and they work fantastically well.. still to this day I sometimes play old mobile games on them just 'cause of nostalgia and such.

[ByOdinsBeard]

The chaos of the ending might be some of my favorite Dankpods content 😂

[kurnekgming]

As a kid I always wanted to have one of these Razer Phones. They had been like WHOA! IT'S FOLDING! IT HAS TWO SCREENS! - I never got one

[mafiacat]

I've always loved this phone-to this day by FAR my favourite cell phone, if all you need it for is calling people.
So satisfying to snap it shut.

But I've always had a soft spot for mid-2000's phones and bits of electronic jank, the same way I love ancient power tools; while things are usually easier to use once things hit the "optimum design" (Ie; screen rectangle for phones), things are so much more interesting when everyone is trying to figure out how things worked.

Like-now one friend has a google and one has an Iphone-big deal, they've got nearly identical features and work the same way.
But back when this came out people could roll up with ANYTHING-slide out keyboard? Sure. Folding? Yes. Weird form factors? Absolutely.

[arjovenzia]

Those Razr phones were absolute hotness in their day. When a phone was expected to... Make phone calls. Anything else was amazing. If I recall correctly, the camera was actually good for the time, n such a sleek bit of industrial design. The monolithic black slab we all carry around today, very lame. My mates were all nerds, we all had weird n wonderful telephony devices, definitely a competition as only teenage males can do. I never owned one myself, but mad respect at the Razr. Such a decent bit of kit.

[heavyarms]

This was THE phone. This was the first cell phone I remember "everyone" wanted or had. People had phones before, of course. But the Razr was the first time that I remember people talking about a SPECIFIC phone. It was the first time I remember people pulling out their phone not just to brag about having a cell phone in school at all, but to show off WHICH cell phone they had. It was the evolution of phones being "wow, you have your own cell phone!" to "Wow, you have THAT cell phone!"

[AlwaysBolttheBird]

I had the Razr when it came out and to this day it’s still my favorite phone ever. If it worked on modern bands I would probably still use it

[muehunter]

I used to have this exact model (right down to the colour). Loved it still the best mobile I ever owned!

Only thing the iTunes link up was kind of a gimmick, it had internal space for like 1 song, and no expandable storage (not even kidding)

[BeingAMonkey]

I used to be able to power old phones by taking out the battery and plugging in the charger. Not sure if it works on all phones, but Nokia used to be able to do that.

[jaypeterson]

Thank God for these man. Been in a roughed spot after not getting a call for a wildland fire apprenticeship this year despite being told tons of spots were open. Would probably be back to the bottle if I didn’t have these distracting me right now. God bless you Wade, on ya <3

[CoalCracker]

I still have mine from when I was a kid.... this is still my most favorite phone ever

[thatguyoverthere]

That colour phone's batter probably still worked because it was some sort of nickel battery. Ive got a nickel metal hydride 4 cell pack for an rc plane i have never charged since i got it out of a plane my dad found renovating a house. It still has enough of a charge to activate all of the servos and the receiver when I flip it on.

[RatBürgerSk]

These were the absolute coolest phone you could have back in 2005. I remember my mom got one of the pink ones and I'd always take it just to look at. Times change, but phones (and technology as a whole) feels a lot less exciting than it did in the early 2000s.