From the article:
manufacturers all adopt the same universally popular features like biometric scanners and wireless charging
Think how science-fictional this phrase would have sounded when the RAZR was new.
Before the RAZR, Moto had the MicroTAC, circa 1992, which seemed impossibly small for the time. The first time I saw one, it was a real object of fascination. The RAZR was part of that lineage.