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It's time to get retro.

Or993 Archives more precisely, it's about to betime to get retro. Motorola's new foldable Razr smartphone is officially going on pre-sale this Jan. 26, with in-store sales kicking off on Feb. 6. In other words, get ready to hear all your tech enthusiast friends talk about how they can't even image living in a pre-fold era.

We know. We can hardly wait as well.

The foldable smartphone which, unlike Samsung's problematic foldable phone, opens top to bottom as opposed to the familiar book-like side to side, is an intentional homage Motorola's iconic Razr phone from back in the day.

Karissa Bell, Mashable's senior tech reporter, had a brief chance to check out the new Razr and called it "the only foldable phone I've actually been excited about."

According to a Motorola spokesperson, eager customers can place their pre-orders at Verizon, Walmart, or that old standby motorola.com.

SEE ALSO: Motorola's new Razr is the first foldable smartphone worth getting excited about

And hey, we don't want to hear any griping about how $1,500 is too much to pay for what amounts to a novelty smartphone concept. Fortune favors the early adopter... or, something like that.

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