Canceled Motorola RAZR3 reemerges as KLASSIC in South Korea
When the bulk of your business suddenly shifts virtually all of its marketing and engineering resources to Android, certain things are bound to fall through the cracks -- take the "Ruby," for example, once said to be the fallen would-be successor to the RAZR 2. We guess Moto got far enough along on engineering with this one that they figured they'd toss it over to one of its lower-volume markets rather than canning it altogether, though, because the higher-end flip has reemerged in South Korea as the KLASSIC. For anyone who keeps track of these sorts of stats, that's exactly three more letters than the typical Moto model name has, but the phone breaks all sorts of rules -- after all, it combines an old-school 2G radio (which in operator SKT's case, means CDMA) with a relatively fresh 5 megapixel cam, not unlike the ZN5. There's no word on a release outside South Korea at this point, but frankly, we're pretty sure the DROID would eat it anyhow.
[Via AVING]
[Via AVING]
























Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ypoknons @ Nov 5th 2009 7:11AM
But that said, why not resurrect the RAZR brandname in the smartphone context? People still know it, people might associate it with good things. With smartphones getting bigger screens and getting thinner like the old RAZR, a Droid/Milestone with no keyboard and thus thinner could easy revive the old name. Much better than coming up with 5,000,000 new buzzwords/brands.
John Stracke @ Nov 5th 2009 9:02AM
The problem is that the people currently buying smartphones don't remember the RAZR line with fondness. Maybe in a year or so, when they can use the brand to bring smartphones downmarket.
Plexus @ Nov 5th 2009 9:33AM
Don't you realize that nobody , will ever buy anything from an obnoxious troll?
And Engadget why do you allow this to happen again and again?
Why do you think that Gizmodo or other blogs are not affected by this sort of spamming?
pheer6224 @ Nov 6th 2009 12:39AM
Now that its gone, I miss the hell out of the RAZR.