No idea. Perhaps they lurk to this day in a dusty, long-abandoned Motorola lab, waiting to take off a future archaeologist’s fingers. Or maybe they were just the ones that didn’t make it – including a reported super-skinny prototype that had the benefit of being as thin as four credit cards… and the snag of conking out after 20 minutes. But the V3 lasted for hours – especially if you spent ages gushing over the lovely design before you got around to actually using it.

We won’t pardon the pun. But yes, the Razr was the epitome of cool and captured the imagination with its skinny aluminium frame. Although it started off as a high-end phone with a price to match, it later became affordable, and Motorola shifted 130 million of the things. Not bad for a phone that, in all honesty, didn’t have standout tech, and even offered a slight chance of zapping the user if the electroluminescent keypad’s insulation failed. And even if it didn’t, the Razr would buzz when the keypad backlight was on.