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Fact: most phones last. Thing is, for us (and likely many of you), they last far longer than our clinically-diagnosed Gadget Attention Deficit Disorder would ever tolerate — but for your dad, your sister, your college buddy with the hand-me-down ZEOS Pantera running Windows 95, or anyone weary of re-upping a two-year commitment, a handset can easily become a serious long-term investment. That helps explain why Motorola’s venerable RAZR series remains staggeringly high on Nielsen’s latest US phone usage report — third place, to be exact, at 2.3 percent of all subscribers behind the iPhone 3G at 4 percent and RIM’s BlackBerry Curve line at 3.7 percent. Needless to say, that doesn’t mean the ancient V3 line is still in third place for sales — it’s more a testomony to the staggeringly huge RAZR user base Moto managed to develop by the years, many of whom scored

their phones at sub-$100 price points as an appealing, midrange value in the phone’s twilight and have no intention of upgrading any duration soon whether they don’t have to. perhaps the most interesting part of that is that two V3 variants are also topping 2009’s most-recycled list, so they’re definitely getting taken out of circulation — it just might take a few years yet before you don’t know anyone that uses one, that’s all.

Nielsen stats: a lot of iPhones out there, but additionally a lot of everything else originally arised on Engadget on Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Original post by Chris Ziegler