The 25 Best Motorola Phones of All Time

5. Motorola Droid

Year: 2009
Most tech experts believe the HTC Hero and T-Mobile G1 put consumers onto the Android platform. Don’t think so. It was the clever marketing campaign and unique design of the original Droid that turned the mobile OS into a mainstream staple. Its badass QWERTY with D-pad and dominant spec sheet gratified consumers who felt constrained to the iPhone’s finite hardware.

4. Motorola DynaTAC 8000x

Year: 1983
One word to describe the DynaTAC 8000x: iconic. The granddaddy of mobile phones was massively huge on all levels including price, size, and significance. There would be no mobile industry with the birth of Dr. Marty Cooper’s handset. Need we say more?

3. Motorola Droid X

Year: 2010
Moto’s Android tour de force not only drew serious interest in the Droid series, but grew into the flagship handset most Verizon subscribers yearned for when released in the summer of 2010. Ditching the huge block design of its predecessor, the Droid X flaunted a slimmer profile and meshed in a formidable 8MP camera, great messaging synchronization, and multitasking-ready processor that delivered instant performance. No other Google-operated device manufactured by the company has come close.

2. Motorola RAZR v3

Year: 2004
The Razr series transformed the cell into a fashion accessory and redefined the flip phone category. Extremely compact, sexy, and yes, useful, the trend-setting handset seduced millions of customers to trade in their BlackBerry and Nextels, branching out onto every major wireless network and becoming the highest-selling device in the company’s history. It’s quite the amazing feat for a phone that many labeled the spiritual successor to our No. 1 pick.

1. Motorola StarTAC

Year: 1996
What we all remember as the “it” phone of the ‘90s is Motorola’s greatest work of art ever conceived. From its radically slim design to the small-scale form, the StarTAC is still praised as a feat in mobile engineering—one that ushered in the compact handset movement and embodied Moto’s mantra for creating remarkable mobile hardware. Period!