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CNET
05-08-2025
- CNET
Motorola, Swarovski Debut a New Razr Phone Adorned with Crystals
After teasing a new Motorola and Swarovski collaboration a few weeks ago, the companies on Tuesday are debuting new editions of the Razr phone and the Moto Buds Loop that are adorned with crystals. The phone and the earbuds are being sold in a $1,000 bundle called The Brilliant Collection, which features both devices in their new Pantone Ice Melt models. Motorola says that this edition of the Razr will have a leather-inspired finish that includes 35 Swarovski crystals, including one larger crystal with 26 facets on its hinge. The included Moto Buds Loop -- which previously launched with a French Oak color model that also features Swarovski crystals -- have a similar Ice Melt shade to match up with the phone. The Pantone Ice Melt edition of the Motorola Razr has 35 Swarovski crystals. Motorola The Razr normally costs $700 and the Moto Buds Loop are $300, so if you were intent on getting both devices anyway then getting them in this collection is the same price while getting the crystals. However, Motorola also happens to be running a sale on the 2025 Razr line at the time of this announcement, marking down the non-Ice Melt models to $600. The Brilliant Collection bundle is the latest expansion of materials that Motorola has been bringing to its phones, which on its $1,300 Razr Ultra also include wood and Alcantara fabric. Considering how the Ultra is already making use of those materials as a selling point, I'm surprised that the lower-cost Razr is first to debut a model that features crystals. But it could be a matter of time before the Razr Ultra gets its own Swarovski collaboration, and Motorola isn't alone right now in providing a stylish refresh on its foldable phone line. Case in point, this launch comes a few weeks after rival Samsung launched its own line of foldable phones, including the redesigned $2,000 Galaxy Z Fold 7, the $1,100 Galaxy Z Flip 7 and the $900 Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE.
Boston Globe
20-02-2025
- Climate
- Boston Globe
Reflections of the Frozen North
The weather is all about ice but the news is all about a different kind of ICE. The roads have so much salt on them it looks more like Bonneville (Salt Flats) than Boston. Everybody is ticked off, sick of the cold and the dark. Kids are peeved because although it snows, there's not enough accumulation on the week days to give them snow days. Ice and snow cling to plexiglass in the pavillon level at Fenway Park. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff Old timers no longer race out to buy eggs, they just complain about the prices. Grandma never leaves the house, afraid she's going to fall. Priorities are out of whack. The day before Valentine's Day is icy. People race around the Commonwealth, not looking for boxes of chocolates, but bags of Ice Melt. Advertisement Weather maps look like acid trips with blues, greens, yellows, and pinks. Oh, that polar vortex . . . A ray of sunshine filters through the seats at Fenway Park. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff A Bob Dylan movie is up for eight Oscars, but nobody seems to be paying any attention to the Hibbing, Minn., native's sage advice. 'You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,' he sang in 'Subterranean Homesick Blues.' But take heart Boston. The sun, when it graces us with its shining presence, is getting stronger every day. Temperatures next week are forecast to be above freezing. The clocks change on March 9 giving us 6:44 p.m. sunsets and the Red Sox opener is less than 4 million seconds away. A runner in shorts approaches the snow covered statue of Samuel Eliot Morison on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff A young girl waits for a train at South Station. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff Pedestrians slog along in the snow outside an MBTA entrance near South Station. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff A sailboat is locked in ice in Dorchester Bay, just off Squantum. Meteorologists say this winter has been the coldest in the last 10 years. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff A homeless person heads for a shelter on Mass Ave. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff A man and his dog take a nap on a soggy Hanover Street in the rain. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff A Monet-like view on Upper Newbury Street as snow changes over to freezing rain. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff A pedestrian makes his way down Massachusetts Avenue during an icy rain after an overnight snowstorm. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff @font-face { font-family: BentonSansCond-Regular; src: url(" format('woff2'), url(" format('woff'); } @font-face { font-family: BentonSansCond-Bold; src: url(" format('woff2'), url(" format('woff'); } .dipupnext_hed { font-family: "MillerHeadline-Bold", "Times New Roman", Times, Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: .75px; text-align: center; font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 1; margin-top: 3px; color: #000; width: 100%; font-weight: 600; } .dipupnext_cap_cred { font-family: "BentonSansCond-Regular", "Times New Roman", Times, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: .5px; text-align: left; margin: 3px 0px 5px 0px; font-weight: 200; color: #000; text-decoration: none; text-align: center; } .dipupnext_photo { max-width: 100%; height: auto; padding-top: 15px; opacity: 1; } .dipupnext__form:hover { opacity: .5; text-decoration: underline .5px; } .dipupnext__form{ opacity: 1; } .picupnext__container { width: 100%; position: relative; margin: 0 auto; } .dipupnext__content { width: 100%; display: grid; grid-template-columns: 3fr; } .cdipupnextcontainer { display: block; width:100%; height: auto; margin:0 auto; -moz-box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; } .upnext { font-family: "BentonSansCond-Bold", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.15; margin-top: .5rem; letter-spacing: 0px; color: #000; padding: 8px 8px 4px 8px; margin-top: 5px; letter-spacing: .5px; } .upnext:before, .upnext:after { background-color: #000; content: ""; display: inline-block; height: 1px; position: relative; vertical-align: 4px; width: 32%; } .upnext:before { right: 0.3em; margin-left: -50%; } .upnext:after { left: 0.3em; margin-right: -50%; } .theme-dark .upnext:before { background-color: #fff; } .theme-dark .upnext:after { background-color: #fff; } .theme-dark .upnext { color: #fff; } .theme-dark .dipupnext_cap_cred { color: #fff; } .theme-dark .dipupnext_hed { color: #fff; } @media screen and (min-width: 800px){ .dipupnext__content { grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr 1fr; grid-column-gap: 40px; } } UP NEXT Stan Grossfeld can be reached at
