Razr goes retro with new take on flip phone.

Flip styling harkens back to the days before Apple ruled the smartphone world

If you’re a fan of old-school tech products, but want to pay 2019 prices for them, then Motorola has something for you: the Razr phone.

That’s right, Motorola, now a division of PC maker Lenovo, has brought back the Razr for real.

Like the Razr of old, the new Razr is a flip phone. Or, rather, it’s a foldable phone — the second such foldable smartphone on the market after the Samsung Galaxy Fold made its debut earlier

this year.

Unlike the original Razr, the new model of the phone comes with a very 2019 price tag: $1,500, or about the same Apple’s top-of-the-line iPhone 11 Pro Max, which tops out at $1,449. By comparison, the old Razr cost about $300 when it made its debut in 2004.

When the new Razr is closed, the outside has a 2.7inch glass screen that has what Motorola is calling a “Quick View” display that allows the user to see and access things like emails, texts, incoming phone calls and a viewfinder for the phone’s camera. The Razr runs on Google’s Android mobile operating system, and comes with Google Assistant technology.

When opened, the Razr is a very different device from its early aughts predecessor. The old gap that was on the old Razr’s hinge is gone, and the phone opens up to a 6.2inch flatscreen that has the look and feel of other smartphones. It also comes with 128 gigabytes of storage.

Pre- orders for the Razr start Dec. 26, and the phone will be offered exclusively by Verizon in the United States.

MOTOROLA VIA AP Motorola is bracing for the future by returning to the past as it adopts a historical flip-phone design in a smartphone with a foldable screen.