#Razr phone

Back in the day, mobile phones (often referred to as handsets) came in different shapes and sizes. I'm sure you can still remember your dad's Motorola StarTAC and Nokia 5110 or your tita's Nokia 3310s or Motorola RAZRs. We went from black and white to colored displays, monophonic to polyphonic ringtones, SMS to MMS, Blackberry Messenger, and emails -- all the way to installing apps into our phones (remember installing JoikuSpot in your Nokia phone so you can enable hotspot on your 3G connection?). It was an exciting time and folks tend to buy new phones every 6 to 8 months. Mobile giants like Blackberry made a killing with the early smartphones. Then Apple came along and combined a mobile phone, an internet communicator, and the iPod line to form the iPhone in 2007, the leading industry players at the time scoffed at the news. Still, the iPhone, along with the debut of the App Store idea, delivered upheaval that the industry had been anticipating for some time, and most of these players were unprepared for it. It became far more accessible for these companies to obtain the parts they require, assemble a phone, slap on an Android skin, and sell the phone for a lower price than anyone else on the market. Read more in our articles including "Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, Blackberry, LG, HTC, Sony: What went wrong?" and "iPhone 3G: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly".