Hate mail from RAZR users

After my brief diatribe on the RAZR, published not more than 2 hours ago, I have received 12 hate emails.

Ok, they’re not ‘hate’. They’re just, ‘how dare you’ and ‘how could you’ and ‘but *I* use a RAZR???’

Here’s what I wrote:

One girl flopped out her RAZR right in front of me, much to my annoyance. I think the RAZRs are really ‘Basildon’. You can’t go about using a bog standard 1.5 year old RAZR without having mobile bloggers like me sneer at you OPENLY.

And I standby that.

In fact I’ll enhance it. For the more worldly readers out there, not necessarily familiar with Basildon, here’s a (slightly tongue in cheek!) overview of Basildon (the page lists the Basildon council motto as:Hapless, Bloated, Inefectual.)

So, having put that in context, let’s take a look at the handset:

The handset was launched, according to Wikipedia, in 2004. I remember walking into a Vodafone store with my colleague Hetty and getting one for her. It was a piece of genius.

Now, you can buy the V3, one of the latest reincarnations of the RAZR, for £69 in Tesco. IN TESCO.

I kid you not:

So, WALKING ABOUT with a first generation RAZR (not even a V3) is simply inexcusable as far as I’m concerned. You definitely can’t take one to a speed dating evening.

Unless you are a balding 45 year old who really likes the fact that his 1st generation RAZR containing 7 phone numbers in the address book fits nicely in his M&S suit pocket, upgrade please.