Razer Kishi Review Unboxing and S20 Ultra Gameplay For Android/Xbox By Android Addicts

Hi, it's john from android addicts, and today we're going to be looking at the racer kimchi. This controller is available on Amazon at 79.99, which is pretty expensive. Really it's a similar in price to the gap controller that I have reviewed previously, there's a link in the description. If you want to have a look- and basically this is touted as an ultra low latency game pad for android, because it actually uses an USB connection rather than a Bluetooth connection, so you can see here it's showing that it fits most android devices it's saying most, because basically your USB connection needs to be in the center of your phone. Otherwise, it's not going to be compatible, so you can see here from the presentation, it's quite a nice little box. It's quite compact! You can see here on the back.

It has a few details. I'm not quite sure why it's sort of showing off about these clickable analog thumb sticks, because clickable and thumb sticks have been around for a long time either way. It's quite a nice package. As you can see here, you can also see on the side a list of the official compatible devices which are basically mainly Samsung devices and a few of the Google Pixel phones. Interestingly, the racer phones aren't even listed on the side here, but uh, let's open up and have a look at what's inside.

Okay, so, like I said this is slightly different to previous controllers that I have reviewed because it doesn't actually need charging. It's actually powered from your phone. So if we have a quick look, this is what we get inside the box. So we have our main controller, and underneath here we have our little sort of quick start guide, which is basically telling you how to set up the controller and what functions it has we'll have a look at those in more detail shortly. We also get some nice razor stickers here, which you may want to uh, stick on your bicycle or something, but that's all included inside we're going to leave that and just have a look at the controller itself is the controller out of the box, and it's got a really nice feel to the analog.

Sticks, that's my first impression. Definitely a lot nicer than the actual analog sticks of the gap controller. They just feel a lot more. I don't know similar to the Xbox One controller. They just feel high quality, so the face buttons again.

They feel good quality, maybe not quite as good as the actual Xbox One controller, but they do feel better than the black controller buttons. The d-pad slightly spongy, I'd like it to have been a bit more click I'd say so again. If we compare this to the gap, the galactic controller feels more responsive than the racer Keisha here, but it does, you know, do enough to warrant being called a decent d-pad compared to the Xbox One controller. However, with its nice click yd-pad, it doesn't really compare, but for an android controller, that's more than suitable I'd say, so we have some analog triggers here at the top and our bumper buttons, which would feel really nice and there's not too much space between the two to actually reach them, whereas on the gap controller, you did have a bit of a bit of a jump to get to each of the right hand or left-hand triggers or bumper buttons, but this is really compact, and it feels like it's perfectly designed for your hand. So also on the front here we have a home button.

We have a start button and a back button, so these will work inside most games, that support x, input controls and also inside your android home screen on the back of the controller here. Let's just take this off. This is the piece that holds the whole controller together, so to actually expand it. We need to pull these to the side and that pops this little piece up. So, let's just do that again, so you can see it pops up and out, and then you can pull the controller apart.

Let's just take this piece off first and the controller is now going to expand to the correct size of your phone. Last but not least, let's just have a look here. We have a little USB port here and this will allow you to actually charge your phone whilst you're playing games. That again is another thing that the gap doesn't have the ability to actually charge your phone whilst playing. So that's quite a nice little feature there.

So yeah like I said this feels really nice in the hand it feels good quality. It feels you know expensive. It doesn't feel cheap and tacky. So let's pop a phone in and see how it looks. Okay, so I've got my galaxy s20 ultra here initially.

I didn't think this would actually fit into this controller, but it does just about squeeze in, so we put in the bottom end first into the USB connector at the bottom, and then we stretch as hard as we can to get that in place. So this is what you can expect to see with a s20 ultra, for example, it's quite wide. Obviously the s20 ultra is quite a wide phone, but it's uh. It does fit just about. So you can see here underneath I'm not sure if this piece here, I'm too happy with touching my phone.

I don't want it to scratch the back of my phone. This definitely will not work with a case on certainly not on the s20 ultra, I'm just going to try the s8 and see if that fits in and how it feels. But this feels nice and sturdy there's a slight bit of tilt here. If you pull the controller forwards, if you push it forwards, but when you're holding it in this sort of direction and just playing a normal game, you're not likely to experience that okay. So this is my Galaxy S8 here and again, like I said as long as your USB is in the center of the phone, you should be good to go okay, and that is my s8 inside, and I'd say this is slightly looser than the s20 ultra.

Obviously it's a smaller phone, so there's less phone real estate, I suppose to grip on to, but it does feel sturdy enough, even with a smaller phone. Okay, I'm just going to run through the game pad test, wrap here just to test that all the functions of the controller working and how well the analog sticks work. So we'll just do test game pad first, and we can see here the first analog stick is working. Fine got our right hand. Analog stick, got our d-pad buttons.

Our analog sticks, like I say, as you can see down here. They are analog because they vary with the amount of pressure, so everything's working as it should, which is great to see. So, let's go on to the actual axis test here, so we should be able to draw a complete circle, at least with our analog sticks and hopefully not have any problems, and that to me looks pretty, pretty perfect. That's working fine and the right hand. One is also drawing a lovely circle there.

Okay, before I start playing any games I'll just point out the differences here between the gap and the fish here, so the clap does have a really nice set of analog triggers here, whereas the fish, although they are analog, they're, obviously not quite as sort of beefy as the other ones- they're fine, you know they do the job uh. The main difference here is the bumper buttons they're, not very nice, actually on the gap when you have used the fish ones, which are really nice and click, and I feel that there's a bit more movement involved in getting between the trigger and the bumper button here on the gap compared to the fish. So if you're after speed and momentum, you're probably going to want to go for the key here. Other things to note are the positions of the buttons and the analog stick. So here on the gap, the analog stick is offset to the right of the buttons, whereas on the Aisha here we have the analog, stick just below the buttons here.

So, comparing that to an Xbox One controller, for example, we can see it's nearly the same, but not quite as offset as the Xbox One controller and again, if we compare the left-hand side of the controller here, we have the analog stick here on the left, which is slightly offset to the d-pad, whereas on the key sheet it's more sort of in line rather than offset, but to be honest in this sort of setup, I think actually works quite well. Okay, so the key sheet controller comes with its own app, and this lets you browse for games that are compatible with it, and it also lets you update the firmware of the controller itself. Now you can see here, it will initially show you what games you have installed which are compatible, or you can go to the discovery here and actually find new games that you may want to play with the controller. Now, a lot of the games that you see here are actually ones that you need to pay for, but there are some free ones around which you can also install, and we're just going to go through a few of them now. Okay, so the first game here is grand theft, auto 3.

You can see here it's really very responsive to your actions, but yeah the controls do work very nicely. There's again, there's no lag at all. Do okay, so to note here with the racer key sheet, is that some games don't actually support it? Natively so Call of Duty, mobile and PUBG mobile do not currently support an USB c controller. Now they do support Bluetooth controllers, so the Glock controller and most other Bluetooth controllers will work when detected but Call of Duty mobile as an example does not work unless you have the panda game pad pro app installed. So that's where you can set an overlay of your buttons on the phone, and you can play the game through that.

So we can see here. It's the game is actually telling us to connect controller, which is obviously already connected, so we're going to go into game pad pro panda, game pad pro and setup. So we can see here that panda game pad pro supports the racer kimchi, so we're going to load Call of Duty again and make sure that our buttons are configured which they already are, and we'll just get into a multiplayer game. Let me close it: okay, okay, that's cod mobile! I think it plays pretty well. It does feel a bit weird, sometimes um.

It could just be the way I'm sitting, but when you're moving around having a look and then you sort of suddenly move up to press the jump button or something just feel a bit awkward, sometimes I think having them either slightly off to the side here would be better than a sort of stretch upwards if that makes sense. So, as you can see here on the Xbox controller, when you're moving around, you can just do that which seems a more natural movement that way than it does upwards. That's just my personal preference, but it's so worth bearing in mind. Okay. Next up, we have asphalt 9 here, so I've turned on the sort of slightly more pro controls, so we can do a bit more with the controller itself.

So again it controls really nicely no sort of feeling of lag or anything when you're pressing things. So, let's just get into another race and see how we get on so yeah. Again, very nice controls here no lag at all, whilst playing, so we'll move on to the next game. Okay, I wanted to try some platformer game to see how well the actual uh controls fare in a sort of situation where you may need to suddenly change directions or do something else. So let's check this one out now this game fin here does support the controller out of the box.

I did have to reconfigure the control slightly but uh after that it actually uh works really well, so it's nice to see okay, so I've noticed with the racer key here. Is these two little holes in the side here, and I was wondering what they could be for, and then I realized it's actually for the speaker of your phone. So, for example, if we have a look at the s8 here, we have our speaker unit here on the right hand, side. So, basically, when it's inside the kimchi, it's going to be sort of cupped and brought forward towards you, so the sound, whether it's at the bottom right of your phone or the bottom left, it will actually come out through the fish and be sort of almost amplified as a result. So it's quite a nice little feature that we've got there built into the controller itself, whereas if we look at the gap, whilst we're waiting for the game to load here, if we look at the gap controller, there's no chance that the sound is going to be sort of bounced back up at your ears, it's just going to go straight down into the side of the glass controller here.

So that's quite a nice little feature. I haven't seen anyone else notice or mention that particularly but yes, you do get your sort of sound boosted through these two sort of events on the right hand, side of the controller. So this is pub g again. This doesn't actually support the fish out of the box at the moment, because it's not a Bluetooth controller, but I'm using panda game pad pro here. So you can just have a quick look at how it controls, as you can see, it's very nice and smooth, and we should be able to you- know, get a chicken dinner pretty easily I'd say with this controller.

Do so you can see here in PUBG again the controls are pretty, pretty spot-on, as in there's no lag at all. When you want to do something, it will do it. But again this does require the panda game pad pro okay. Next up, we have Fortnite, which for some reason currently on my galaxy s20, is running pretty poorly, as you can see, there's lots of graphical glitches and things, but ignore that for the time being and just have a look at how the actual controls work, as you can see, they're really nice and very smooth so yeah, you could quite easily have quite a few. You know decent matches with this controller.

I think I'm definitely preferring this to the glam controller. It just feels a lot more solid and a lot more responsive certainly do okay. So here we have some project x cloud gameplay. Now I wouldn't say this is a fair test of the controller, because obviously this is streaming a game which means there's plenty of lags between yourself and the actual game itself. So it's not a fair test to use streaming.

Services to you know say how good a controller is, but obviously it supports the x input mode, so it's basically an Xbox 360 or Xbox One controller, but for android, so you know that it's just going to work straight out the box, and you're going to have no problems with it at all. Okay. Last but not least, I just want to show you the uh pass-through charging of the controller here, so you plug in your USB-C charger cable, and it will start charging. We get a sort of glowing led on the side here, and you can then continue playing whilst charging. Now this is only for charging.

You cannot connect any data through this port at all. So, for example, activating your panda game pad pro with an USB activator will not work. You do have to take the phone out of the case, but it's not a major problem, particularly so there we have it. That was the racer fish. I must say I prefer this to the gap controller and as they come in at the exact same price, I would certainly recommend going for the fish over the gap controller, because basically it just feels much nicer in the hand, there's an Amazon affiliate link in the description.

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