Razer Phone Hands On: A phone for gamers, and everyone By Android Authority

Your eyes do not deceive you, that is the Racer logo. On the back of what basically looks like the next bit Robin, or at least the next evolution of it. Well, you could say: is that the next bit Robin from the ashes of what used to be that phone comes what you could call? Basically the Racer Phoenix. This is the razor phone razor really wants to position this phone as a phone for gamers and that's an important distinction to make, because this is not necessarily a gaming phone. This is a phone that is made for the type of person that wants the best possible specifications in a device that can pretty much do anything and so far this phone seems like an absolute beast and that's no exaggeration what seems like a behemoth of a phone houses. A quad HD 5.7 2 inch LCD panel, made by sharp on a body that looks a lot like a beefed-up version of the original midnight edition of the Robin flatten angular all around the phone is easy enough to grip, if not for its larger size and much like the next bit Robin. There is a fingerprint reader embedded into the flat power button.

The screen has a lot more going for it than its size and resolution, taking some inspiration from razors line of laptops. The screen actually has a 120 Hertz refresh rate, so that means that everything simply glides across this screen in a way that they call ultra motion. This is something that you'll be able to experience, not only in games of course, but also in scrolling through websites like our own and, of course, going through certain applications like Reddit. On top of that, the sync rate is always synced to the GPU making it adaptable for whatever situation the phone is rendering the result is a variability that allows for the battery to be used only when it absolutely has to be, so you're not going to get lower battery life just because it's always firing on all cylinders. Now, as far as games go, not all games will run at this super high refresh rates, but racer has already gotten a number of partners onboard with more to come in the future.

A couple of names that were dropped, included, $0.10, which you might know from League of Legends, and also Final Fantasy 15 mobile Edition by Square Enix, and it's good. That games look great on here, because the performance is as top-notch as possible, and we mean that the Snapdragon 835 powers, the razor phone, but as a bit of a surprise. There's a massive amount of RAM on here at 8, gigabytes and racer has made sure that all eight gigabytes is used by the phone. Of course, we can't really talk about the long-term performance of this phone as we're bowling on a little of time with the phone thus far, but we're pretty confident that eight gigabytes will go a long way, especially in terms of multitasking and productivity, and on top of that you can actually cater the speed of the processor in the game. Booster cap, the frame rate at 60 or 90 frames per second.

If you wish change the display resolution that the game pumps out or even change the clock speed, so you can get a little more game time out of the four thousand William hour battery. Now you can't necessarily overclock the processor, but racer did tell us that the max performance setting in the game booster already puts it at its max level above what it is already set at default. But for the sake of battery life, it's nice that you can change the settings up, so you can get a little more game time. So, let's get to the rest of the hardware.64 gigabytes of on-board storage is available by an SD card. Slot is also there in case you use of all 64 gigabytes available for all the games that you might install, or maybe you aren't all about games if you want a media powerhouse.

That screen will certainly enhance the experience, but audio has not been left out of the equation either in a partnership with Dolby Atmos for mobile helps power. The dual front-facing speakers that sound incredible once again Racer derives from their laptop line in order to create speakers that are super high quality on a mobile device, and this speaker, grilles are a lot like the ones you would find on a laptop. We cranked it up to max and not only did the lows and mid actually sound, quite full, but the highs were not piercing to the ear, and it got really loud. But of course, if you don't want to bother anyone else with the speakers, headphones are always an option. Unfortunately, there is no headphone jack on this device.

Now let that bummer sink in for a second and then realize that the adapter that Racer adds into the box has a 24-bit deck installed. This is a move. I've been spouting phone manufacturers should do for a long time. It's great to see it finally happened and Racer is one of the first to do it. Unfortunately, we didn't have any high impedance headphones to really test this out, but we look forward to doing so once we get our hands on our review units, we're pretty confident that the audio experience on here is going to be top-notch.

The next bit Robin was notorious for having a slow camera experience, and that doesn't seem to be the case here, but the camera software lacks a lot of options. There are dual cameras on the back with a telephoto lens and both are 12 megapixel cameras. Unfortunately, when you go into the application, there aren't really a lot of options for you to mess around with not even a button for you to be able to change between the 2 lenses easily. We still remain hopeful that this camera combo and the 8 megapixel front facing shooter will prove to be good cameras despite their lacking software, but we wouldn't be surprised if this was the one part of the device that we weren't super excited about, which brings us to the software and Racer again put some forward-thinking into what they're trying to provide in this device by partnering up with a very popular third-party launcher. That's right, Nova Launcher premium is going to be pre-installed on here, so you have all the customization options that Nova has already given people who love it.

There are the typical green and black color motifs throughout the operating system, but anyone that has used nova before will know what to expect. Android tinkerers are given carte blanche to make it look the way that they desire. So to RAZOR, this phone personifies the philosophy that they've always had with their gaming community, uncompromising specifications, high quality offerings and the ability to use their highly stylized products to achieve a myriad of tasks. With that in mind, they wanted to make a phone that was made for gamers, even if it's not necessarily a gaming phone, but of course it could blow away pretty much any game you throw at it. If you're looking for the highest performance device ever then this might be the phone you've been waiting for with a large screen great specifications and performance that can help you get gaming, productivity and media done.

Today's announcement of the razor phone will also have another surprise. The price this phone could have easily hit the $1,000 price point. We thought, but instead the phone is priced at six hundred and ninety-nine dollars. It is available for pre-order on November third on razors website and through select ecommerce channels with the phones making it to users hands around the 17th, keep it tuned to Android authority for even more about the razor phone, and we can't wait to get our hands on the review unit. If you are a gaming person, this might be the phone you've been waiting for, but for everybody else, this phone was going to provide as much as it can, so you can enjoy it as well.

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Source : Android Authority