Cloud based gaming with ANY phone - Razer Kishi Review! By ProductNation

When, you think of gaming, you're, usually thinking PC gaming or console gaming in the past few years. The casualty of mobile gaming has completely transformed, and you actually have a competitive space for even mobile gaming, with the advancement in their chipsets, their hardware being improved so much the fact that you can have 144 hertz, refresh rate panels higher touch sensing and all of that makes mobile gaming a lot more competitive and even comparable to consoles, to a certain extent. With that being said in this video we're taking a look at the racer fish, these are pretty much universal controllers to transform your smartphone into a console. Let's get started so like I said it transforms your smartphone into a gaming console pretty much both for android and iOS. We've got both versions here right now, so when you're testing, both of them out finding pros and cons on this, you can even use them as cloud-based gaming using something like the Xbox game pass or the PlayStation remote play. But we're going to be focusing more on the mobile-based gaming first to show you guys how well this is integrated with your smartphone.

Getting started with the unboxing experience, for both of them is almost identical. The iOS box is slightly longer because they've included an external additional padding for the smartphone inside the box. You get the racer fish itself, as well as the instruction manual and a sticker from racer, because they always do that. The exterior of the box obviously tells you everything you have for it: ultra low latency, and it's very quick to connect all of that stuff is all there. Also.

The fact that you don't need to charge up the device is something that's super desirable, we're going to get into that in a second. So that's why you don't really need any cables or additional parts with it, so you just get the key sheet itself, and you're good to go. I obviously didn't read the manual, so the setup process is pretty straightforward. To be honest, this is how it comes. It comes all compressed and small, very tiny form factor, as you guys can see.

It's not very massive. To begin with, I do like that this can fit into your pocket. Your backpack, wherever you go, carry it around at the back. You have the racer logo for this little plate. You have two little triggers right here, top and bottom.

As soon as you pull them. This part comes out and boom you're good to go. It's completely open, it stretches and expands. It's got a ribbon system, so it stretches and expands based on how big or small your smartphone is, and then you've got the connecting port for iOS, with the lighting cable input or for type c with the type c input. So it's very simple, straightforward slide in the side of the phone with the input first and then the other side to the opposite end.

It's got a rubberized grip on both sides, so it's not going to be scratching either the back of your phone or the display itself, which is very important um. It was pretty soft to touch when you put on the smartphone, so don't worry about any scratches when you do get it on for the testing. On the iOS side, I use the iPhone 12 mini for the android side. We use the Samsung s21 ultra and the Xiaomi mi 11, so setting it up is pretty straightforward. Here's the me11, pretty simple process.

You find the type c input take the phone align it up, snack it in and then a light will turn on here, blue showing you that it is connected. In fact, and then you stretch it a little to get a tight seal and there it is that's pretty much it very straightforward, very quick process to set it up, and now you can pretty much just start your gaming process and once you're done using it snap off the side without the type c snap off the side, with the type c align up the little things back there, snap it in place, and you're good to go same thing goes for the iOS side as well exact same mechanism, pull the tabs, pull this back part out off the switch you get. This exposed completely fine, you have the lighting input right down there, pretty straightforward, just smack this in and then get it in the iPhone.12 mini is kind of tiny, so you kind of have to just hope it doesn't fall out, but otherwise pretty quick, and you get red lights right here, indicating that it is in fact connected, get into a game, and you're good to go. Let's talk about the build quality for the fish they're, very plastic, feeling right. So when you get them yeah, the controllers look very nice, but they are very plastic.

In fact, I would say the entire thing is made out of plastic. It does feel a little flimsy at times, especially when you do open it up at the back. You get this little flimsy open to it very plastic feeling I'm not a huge fan of that. I feel like it could be done a little better, but obviously I understand they've done that to maintain the weight, so it's not too heavy, and it is in fact portable. So when it comes to the build quality itself, the thumb triggers both the adapters, the analogs feel pretty good.

I do like how the analog feels um. I think it's the best thing about the device itself. The r1 is okay, the r2 feels a little weird um. You don't really have much of a leeway there. There isn't a trigger feeling.

It feels a little flimsy. Here's how it sounds. I feel like you, can tell from the sound itself how it really feels. So I'm not a huge fan of the r2. The thing that I like the least about it is the buttons itself.

They feel a little mushy. I don't have any feedback, tactile feedback sort of thing uh the d-pad is probably the worst part of it, but the analogs are pretty great, and then you've got three other buttons. These were different for both versions, but they have the same functionality. They've just changed what they look like. So, as I mentioned earlier, it operates on its own, it doesn't have a built-in battery or anything of the sort.

You just rely on these smartphones power to power. This up. It doesn't consume too much power before you get worried. Uh that'll drain your phone. It doesn't really do that, but in case you want to play and charge your phone up.

At the same time, it does support password charging there's a sticker at the bottom. Then you peel off for the type c version you get the type c input and then for the iOS devices. You get the lighting input, so you can charge up your device and use it at the same time. So, as I mentioned, there is no built-in battery, so there's no Bluetooth mode. It is purely connected to your smartphone directly, which means there's pretty much no latency when you're using it so uh.

What you press is what you get on screen and the inputs are very quick and responsive. Another part of the build quality is also the grilles for the speaker razor smart enough to cut out some grille, so your sound isn't muffled when you connect it because the port is usually where the bottom facing speaker is so the sound comes out nice and even from the bottom side as well. Now, let's get to the actual gaming part of it for the mobile gaming, the native mobile game support it worked really. Well, I tried it out both on iOS and android for the iOS device. I used Call of Duty mobile.

It had direct integration. I didn't have to connect controller, no setup process, just hooked it up, and we're good to go within the game. It showed me different buttons what they're linked up to, and I was able to play a game right off. The bat had to adjust the sensitivity a little, but otherwise it feels perfect. It's very responsive, as well, like I said, no latency.

So as soon as I press down on the trigger the action was carried out on screen. However, on the android side, the quality mobile app wasn't really integrated with the controller. I guess it didn't recognize the controller even when it was plugged in. I went into these settings to find the controller uh, but it was looking for a Bluetooth controller, so I'm not sure whether the developers haven't enabled that as of now but on the s21 ultra, I wasn't able to get that, but on both those devices, I was able to play Fortnite using this controller, and it worked perfectly fine on the Samsung device. Furthermore, I was able to get 60 fps.

Very simply, it did feel like I was playing on a PlayStation 4, really great integration to the controller, very snappy, very responsive, low latency. I was able to remap some buttons as well uh weirdly enough, the top bottom button weren't working in Fortnite, but I was able to remap that a lot easier. So overall gaming experience for mobile games pretty great, I'm pretty sure there are other games out there like catch and impact that a lot of people have been using. But if you guys want us to try that out, follow us on Instagram, and we'll do that then now one of the main selling factors of this is also the cloud-based gaming support. So you can play Xbox games or PlayStation games on your smartphone and have a controller support for that which is absolutely mind-blowing couple of years ago.

That would not be possible, so we're looking at things like the game pass from Xbox, as well as the remote play the game sharing from PlayStation. Now, let's take a look at some pros and cons on the racer kimchi, both for android and iOS the build quality. I feel like the stickiness to it obviously does give it that lighter feel, but it also gives that cheaper feel to it. I do feel like sometimes closing it up can be a little of an issue as well as, like I mentioned, the buttons feel a little mushy at times, as well as the r2 triggers, but the analogs and overall, the feel the way they've designed it with keeping in mind different phone sizes and how it can be optimized for all different phones, the ribbon system very smart and intelligent, and I do really like that they've thought of pretty far ahead as well as the pass through charging works really. Well, you can charge it up your device, just as you would.

If you connect it directly so long hours of gaming, you won't really have an issue with that. The fact that the back is kind of open as well gives room for the phone to cool down over time, so it won't really heat up too much and the speaker grip cut out really great as well. That being said, the iOS device has four LED lights on the side, while the android version has one. I don't get the difference. I don't even know why we have the LED lights, four of them, but overall yeah the build quality is okay, nothing crazy, but when you're looking at the performance of it works pretty well, the latency is pretty low, and I'm very happy with that.

So I'll put that as a pro a con that I found a little annoying on this is something like the s21 ultra. It's slightly on the heavier side, it's a little of a thicker phone as well. So when you connect it to the android version of the fish, let's say we grab it. That way you plug it in nice, secure fit on this side. Pull stretch, connect it again.

Nice fit on this side as well. You're, okay, you're good to go the second. You exert even a little of pressure from the back watch. What happens it just pops up so every single time I was trying to grip it. While I was playing, if I would grip it from this side and let go of this side, it would do that.

So that was a little annoying. I feel like the seal wasn't as great as it could have been, and that's something that can be improved in the next variant. Lastly, a huge pro, obviously is the form factor in size like this thing is tiny. I can toss it in a backpack even fit in my pocket without an issue, but overall, if you want to transform your smartphone into a gaming console sort of experience, this is the way to go, probably the best external controller you can get with native support to iOS or android great job from racer. On this with that being said, that was our review of the racer fish.

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