Razer Phone: Big Battery, Better Specs By Jon Rettinger

So back in January Racer bought next bit the company that made the robbing an awesome and quirky phone, and since that acquisition Ridge has been kind of silent about what their mobile plans were. Well now we know meet the razor phone and typical razor fashion. There's a lot crammed into this completely aluminum shell, so razor took a different approach to the design. A lot of manufacturers are going, bezel lists and rounded curves and rounded screen. Razors got a more industrial approach. The phone is made as a material in there that's in their laptop, so it feels premium.

It's got a cool metal feel to it. It's also more rectangular than what we've seen before. Furthermore, it looks very reminiscent to what we saw with the Robin. Quite obviously, you've got a fingerprint reader in the middle. The phone on the right hand, side you can press in it's really nice to have it there, and then you've got two buttons on top almost identical to what we saw on the rub, and they're located right.

Squared the middle of a phone because Roger tells us this phones meant to be used when you're playing games or watching movies in landscape. It's let me get this one out of the way. Because they're going to be a billion questions. It's going to cost. Six hundred and ninety-nine bucks, you're going to get a lot for that money, or you get 64 gigs internal storage.

Of course, you can expand it up to I think it goes up to two terabytes right now, typical razor fashion. They wanted to cram a lot in here, so you've got eight gigs of DDR four RAM, which is insane to have the screen is where a lot of the story I think takes place. It's a 5.7, two-inch TO LCD panel. It's two cases 1440 by 2560. We didn't get a little dressing.

Those with the refresh rates 120 Hertz here, and what that's going to mean in like real-world usage and not just on a spec sheet scrolling through stuff is gonna. Looks incredibly smooth! It's like a psychosomatic. It looks better, but it doesn't really. When you try this phone, you can get it in a store. You pick one up and start scrolling through anything.

It looks incredibly smooth and also when you're, watching movies or YouTube videos, because a higher refresh rate things should look also smoother tends to be the theme of the razor phone. They also went for a wide color gamut so where other devices might give you kind of bluish hue to the whites. This is gonna, look actually white, so all that stuff is great, but I think since it's ray the big reasons behind that refresh rate when it comes to games, it's a variable, refresh rate. So if you're playing a game that needs the full 120, you can do it is'll scale itself down as well. If using something that doesn't need the full refresh rate, it's kind of dynamic, so you can get an insane refresh rate on the phone, so they're going to drain battery, which I should mention, is four thousand two William hours, so you're getting a big old battery in this device.

Other specs are things you'd expect from flagships right now it's got the Snapdragon 835 with the Adrian 540 built into it. So, on the camera front, it's got 30 of them and, as is in vogue right now, it's got two on the back. Both are 12 megapixel one's wide-angle and one is telephoto 8 megapixels on the front. It's shipping with Indra and you get out of the box. Race has been pretty good updates on the laptop side and presumably a pretty good updates on the phone as well, and they did say on the record that got plans for Oreo soon, so we're going to hold them to that.

When the cool things on the software front, the phone is actually shipping out of the box with Nova prime as the default launcher, which is awesome. If you haven't used Nova, it's my go-to for launchers. It works really well on out of the box swiping to the right. It's also going to give you Google now so looking at this phone, you're gonna, you're, going to notice gigantic speakers on the top and the bottom. This isn't like a fake like grill, it's a sort of psyche out.

These are gigantic speakers that we had a chance to test out here and check my Buffalo offices, and they wouldn't let us benchmark you to see how loud they got, because their units still a little running some pre-production software, but it got really loud, I think more impressively than the volume didn't sound tinny. It had a lot of bass, especially coming from a phone. It's not going to replace your home theater system, but if you want a phone that sounds perfect and maybe easy to play some songs. For some friends, the razor phone does a really nice job with it. So writing out the specs.

No headphone jack does have USB-C, and they're gonna. Give you in the box a dongle. If you plug in set Congo you're going to get a THX certified 24-bit DAC, so you can get some high-quality audio in those cans. Pre-Orders are available now, link to it down below it's going to be shipping on November 17th, at least in the US. The phone will work right out of the box with 18 T-Mobile.

No CDMA support here, unfortunately, for Verizon and Sprint I did ask her age about that, and they said, probably not so if you want to pick up this phone either switch to AT&T or T-Mobile or if you're on those two carriers then thumbs up for you. So all the phone looks and feels pretty awesome. There are some things here that might leave you scratching your head and wondering why? First there is no waterproofing here. Razor set it's because of the mesh on the speaker, grilles, and also it's metal on the back you're not going to have wireless charging. So if one or both of those things are important to you, it could be a little disappointed.

So no wireless charging for me is a bummer, but when you do plug it in to charge it didn't get access to Qualcomm, quick charge for plus, so it'll charge fast is really what it boils down to the last summation. Bluetooth 4.2. It doesn't have Bluetooth 5.0 in here, so we need that long range Bluetooth. If you want to share music with friends, it's not here, so here's the deal with the phone, at least for me, and why it kind of stands out a little. So at that $6.99 price point: it's not the cheapest throw in the world, and it's competing against really the cr?me de la cr?me of flagships. You want to get this phone if that screen matters to you seeing the refresh is awesome.

If you watch a lot of movies on your phone, you think you might play a ton of mobile games incredible device. If you consume a lot of content, you're going to want to look at this phone. If you're creating a lot of content, you may want to see what else is available. Wireless charging is important to you. If you take your phone in the snow or skiing, then you're going to want to make sure you get a phone that has sort of that IP certification in here it's competing in packed waters, especially at that price point.

But the speakers are awesome. The screen is perfect. We'll see how that fares, though in our for you, but first impression, I, feel pretty positive about the razor phone. It's not cheap. It's not bringing everything to the table you can get with competitors, but what it does.

Furthermore, it appears to do what, but is that enough for you guys to want to pick it up again, six things that I will put all the links down below if you want to preorder one, and if you can pick one up on November 17th when those preorders start to arrive, then what you guys think and let us know especially what you want us to test as we got this guy in our lab- put it through the paces hope you guys enjoyed the video a thumbs up. We appreciate it the next time John right here. You.

Source : Jon Rettinger