Razer Phone - REAL Day in the Life! By UrAvgConsumer

A couple of weeks ago, razors shocked a lot of people when they announced their brand-new spec tout smartphone, that they're calling the razor phone and, in today's video you're gonna, be spending a real day in the life with me, and this phone as I check out. It's 120 Hertz display the dual 12 megapixel cameras and even that 4,000 William hour battery, and we're going to see how it all does in the real world and spoiler alert it's kind of dope, alright guys, so we're starting our day. This is the front facing camera. So you know the audio and video quality is what you could expect from here. So we got a few things to do today. I got a couple packages that I need to send out.

It's 11 o'clock, we're at 100% battery, and we're just going to see how this thing lasts throughout the day, but first stop ups. So what you're, looking at guys are a bunch of giveaway prizes that I'm finally sending out it takes a while to get these out, sometimes because we're working on videos, and it's kind of hard to stop to go to the mill or a post office. So finally we're getting it done now. One of the special things about this phone is that it has 120 Hertz, but because I'm not playing a game right now. You can actually see the benefit when just going through regular menus, so I got to pull up the addresses for these giveaway prizes and even in doing that, I get to see the benefit of 120 Hertz.

It makes the screen look really smooth whenever I'm navigating through things I know this isn't the first phone to do it, but I love the fact that there's a fingerprint scanner right on the power button I feel like this just makes sense. You need to jump into your phone. You just hit to unlock and boom you're already in this is really convenient. I feel like most phones, should have it right here on the power button. It just makes sense.

This is where it should be, and I figured we'd, take a quick look at the phone itself and I got a save in the hand, there's no denying it. This is a pretty big phone, and even though this is a pretty big phone, I feel, like razor, gave some nice attention to detail here, like the fingerprint scanner on the side, which is also the power button. You notice it's kind of low same thing, with the actual volume keys, they're actually low on the screen, so I can access it, even though I'm holding the bottom end of the phone. So if I want to access everything boom and did you catch, those sounds listen to this. It makes those nice little sounds whenever you turn on and off the phone.

Some people might not be crazy about that, but I actually like the way it sounds, makes it feel pretty cool. Now, since this is a huge phone, I'm, usually pretty uncomfortable with leaving it, as is I'm, always scared of dropping it be due to it being a bit unwieldy. But this thing has some perfect: build quality. I, actually, don't feel compelled to throw a case on here, even though it's a huge phone I know. The thing has some huge bezels at the top and bottom thanks to those speakers, but I promise you guys it is so worth it.

I'll show you a bit later, but it is so worth to have those speakers now what's great about this phone? Is that it is running stock Android with like no bloatware, the only things I think that come on the phone are these little three apps right here, which are just a couple of games to demonstrate the abilities of the phone, but that aside, you get a pretty stock version of Android. It's running Android 7.1.1. So it's going to get updated to Android audio in the future, but you do get a premium version of Nova Launcher. So for all of you, guys who love Nova Launcher just comes built into the phone, and if you want to keep it super, super stock, you can go ahead and download the Google now launcher if you want, but it's cool that they offer the option of having a nova launcher. Since that thing is super customizable, alright guys so right now we got a little Cookie Monster over here, and we're actually going to be headed to a ROG park, so I'm gonna actually have to find one, because there isn't one- that's close by here so time to go, find one using the GPS to actually go to the one we find and see how that's we've got about a 20-minute drive ahead of us, we'll see how much it impacts the battery.

What do we say? It was at 87 right, alright, so 86 percent 20 minute drives and that razor phone is on a wireless charger right now, but unfortunately it doesn't have wireless charging built into it. So it can't take advantage of that feature, but hey at least we can continue testing the battery without worrying about that all right, so we made it to the ROG park cookies, ready to go, hang out with some dogs. Let's see here, we have about 83% left, we've got an hour and 30 minutes of screen on time. Very good, so guys take a look at this place. There are a lot of nice colors here and this is perfect to try it out that rear camera and see what kind of quality we can get here.

I see if we can get a shot off. Let's see this is pretty good. Ictus big red tree awesome. So when you initially zoom in it looks super blurry, but it gives it a second, and then it loads up, and it looks pretty good those clouds, the color looks awesome. It looks like it's.

An HDR shot, I actually didn't have HDR on, but I'm going to turn it on now. This looks pretty well, let's see, okay, yeah. That thing is throwing me off the fact that you have to really wait for it to load the image clearly, but it looks good actually feel like the first image without HDR looks better: let's try one more yeah. This is not a great shot at all. The trees are completely dark.

The clouds look pretty cool and all, but there's something it's overexposed a bit, but you can't see these trees at all. This is that's a bad shot, so I'm noticing a couple of things here as I'm using the camera, the HDR mode doesn't seem to have great dynamic range if that makes any sense when I actually turn off HDR I'm, seeing a lot more dynamic range, I'm, not sure why or what conditions are causing that, but I'm seeing way better shots with just a regular camera mode, so we are in PERCO, where's cookie, so chances are we're gonna, be here a while, so I might as well can I sit somewhere, I, see, chairs, well, I'm gonna, find a nice wall to post up on and maybe watch a YouTube, video or something I said: I'd watch a YouTube video, but nothing beats watching some anime, so I got some Dragon Ball super playing over here and I got to tell you guys. The display looks so good. Colors are nice and vibrant, and even though everybody's loving OLED displays right now, this screen still looks awesome, and those speakers remember I told you. The speakers are no joke so right now, we've got it at about less than 50% here.

This is enough to hear in the store with no problem, if you want to get obnoxious, throw it up to here and that's being obnoxious, but if I throw it up this, this is grounds to get told to turn down the volume. This is loud, alright guys. So, as you can see, it's a bit darker right now, and we're back in the studio, because we just have a lot of work to do it never ends, but just to give you guys an update, it is officially 10:53 p. m. I've been using the phone for regular stuff social media, making calls just checking up on NBA scores, and we are at 27% battery life the screen on time.

We are looking at 4 hours and 48 minutes with 27% left. This is killer battery life, guys now I didn't play any games, but one thing I want to mention is that this is with the phone running at 120 Hertz for the screen, so it still got that buttery, smooth setting on, and I've also got it at the max resolution, so full quad, HD 1440p. So that's using the max res and using the 120 Hertz with those options off I could probably get even more battery life, but with that aside, we do have to get to the most important part of this phone and that's the gaming aspect. So, let's dive into that, so this game right here is in fall assault. This is one of the games that come pre-loaded onto the razor phone.

So with this you know they kind of want to show off what this phone is capable of. It runs super smoothly, especially at 120 Hertz everything looks buttery, smooth and there's so much going on. At the same time, you know what that new Snapdragon processor, it runs really nicely, but when you do have it on higher quality, one thing that I did notice is that the phone tends to get a bit warmer. It's actually quite warm right now, and you can bring down the quality of the game to you know kind of help with that decrease the temperature, as well as lower the performance a bit, but I rather go all the way. That's what the point of this phone.

So if it has to get a little hot, that's fine, it's not too high, it's not uncomfortable, at least not yet, but if you're one of those folks who don't like their phones to get warm at least you do have that option to decrease the quality. What's great here, though, is that even at 50 percent you're getting some pretty good quality. If you turn that up- and you didn't hear a lot of what's going on all right guys- this right here is probably my favorite racing game when it comes to a smartphone or any mobile device. Oh, there we go get out of the way you see well, I! Guess that guys! This is my favorite in terms of mobile devices, come on, don't oh, but on the razor phone. This thing is also really nice, because you got some awesome music that you're going to enjoy with this speaker and even without it, it's just really, really smooth on the screen.

It looks great, but that's not to say that this game is optimized to work with the razor phone. It's a smooth experience, and it looks great but razors working with a bunch of different game developers to get their games optimized to work on the razor phone. The way they wanted to, but I don't think this is one of them now, if you're planning on picking up this phone for gaming I wouldn't expect any kind of razor phone exclusives that you can find on here. This is not like a console but, like I said, Racer is working with some game developers to make sure that those games are optimized. For this phone I told you guys.

I saw a Final Fantasy 15 redone, which in chili form but should be pretty interesting. I can't wait to see that actually hit this phone. So if you're, huge into mobile gaming I think this one's going to deliver a pretty good experience. The Google Play Store has a ton, a ton of games that you can take advantage of this phone with, but I am gonna, be keeping an eye out to see what games Racer plans to make sure our optimized for this phone so far, Final Fantasy 15, that's a good way. To start all right guys, so the phone is finally dead.

It took all day like seriously all day and I checked it right before it died. I got about 5 hours and 57 minutes of screen on time, which is the most I've ever gotten on a phone ever we've we've done quite a few new, usually range in the for our int mark. This one just like got just about 6 hours, which is just amazing, but four thousand William hours all-day battery life, and not only that. This thing also has quick charge, 4.0 the first phone to have this feature right out of the box. It's a lot of juice, but let's see how it do I'll, let you guys know how quickly it charges in the wrap-up but battery life amazing.

So you guys got a peek into what it's like to use the phone for a day and I have to, say guys. Overall, I was pleasantly surprised with this phone I expected a lot because of that spec sheet, but when it comes to actually using it, that's a whole other ballgame. This thing has a great 5.7 inch display and even though it isn't OLED and everybody's loving OLED right now, I found this to be very nice and vibrant looked perfect, and it's also got those awesome. Speakers accompanying it and some people might not be crazy about the bezels. But when you actually listen to this guy in person, you'll appreciate it 100% when I play the Dolby Atmos demo for area for the first time, even she was blown away, and I really didn't even expect her to appreciate it, but she did, and of course gaming on this thing is a very nice experience, because you've got that 120 Hertz display that makes it all buttery smooth and even if you're, not a gamer having one 20 Hertz on your screen makes the entire OS look way more smooth and snappy.

It's just an overall great experience just use the phone and that battery life whoo the best battery life I've ever used hands down. It is an awesome. Battery 4000 William hours is no joke now, even though you might set your phone to 120 Hertz razor has software built-in so that it has a variable refresh rate. So that means that if you're not playing a game or doing anything intensive on the phone, it'll go down to lower refresh rates so that it's not consuming a lot of your battery, so that helps you to have optimal battery life. Even if you want that nice smooth, buttery refresh rate- and if you want to go nuts and get even more battery life, you can bring down the refresh rate to like 60 Hertz and even bring down the screen resolution to get a little more out of the phone now, while all that stuff is top-notch, where I wasn't too crazy about this phone was with the camera.

This thing's got dual 12 megapixel cameras, but they honestly weren't that great you can get some pretty decent shots out of it for sure. If you have the right lighting in low-light, shots I didn't feel like you got anything too spectacular out of it. A lot of photos came out. Soft I often dealt with a lot of blurry photos, especially if you have HDR on, and you don't have a great lighting situation. Video quality also wasn't really that great for me, so I don't know.

Camera quality is where this thing takes a hit. A lot of the issues that I found with the camera seem to be. Software based and Racer is working on updating their camera app. So we should see some improvements in the future, but as of right now it is in the strongest camera in the game, and surprisingly, the front facing camera produced some perfect shots with sunlight, but I found that in low-light shots the pictures did turn out to be a bit soft, but in terms of a regular during the day, selfie Harry gave her seal of approval. Take her word for it, she's the selfie expert, not me, and it's a fact that the Razor phone is missing a few key features.

But if you have the gamer in mind, I can kind of understand the logic behind it, and one of those features is wireless charging, but usually a lot of the phones that we see with wireless charging built-in they usually have a more frail body. While this has a matte black aluminum finish, which gives it quite a bit more durability and if you're a gamer, and you're playing with your phone you're moving it around a lot you're going crazy with it, you might drop it or something. You're going to want a little more durability than your standard glass back or something that's a bit more fragile. Also, the fact that this thing comes with quick charge, 4.0 kind of makes up for that I was able to get around 50% when charging this for 30 minutes. That is a lot of juice back, and you wouldn't be able to get that with wireless charging, so I kind of get it.

It's also missing water and dust resistance, but if you had those features built into it, you'd have to sacrifice on those speakers and with this being a multimedia device. You're not going to want to sacrifice on those speakers after hearing it, you will not want to sacrifice on those speakers, but I asked you guys in my last razor video, if you guys cared more about the speaker or waterproofing, and a lot of you guys chose the speaker, so I think it's a pretty safe bet that they took, and I think it works out. Well, and the last thing that's missing here is the headphone jack at first I couldn't wrap my head around why they would remove it, especially considering gaming. Headsets are a thing, and this is a gaming phone, but when you think about the target audience mobile gamers, you got to think about how they're, interacting with the phone and, if you're, moving the surrounding phone're doing all this kind of movements. You might not want a cable dangling on the side of the phone weighing it down, or you know just getting in the way, so Bluetooth headphones are the way to go with this guy and I.

Guess that makes complete sense. If you put yourself in the shoes of a mobile gamer, now don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to make excuses for this phone. It's still missing those features, but at least I can understand some logic behind it, and luckily they include an adapter, that's supposed to have a 24-bit DAC so that it's giving a little more juice to the headphones. To give better.

Sound quality and I tried this against another headphone adapter that I had lying around, and I didn't see a huge difference between the two, maybe slightly, but honestly it wasn't. Big I had to really listen in to see the difference, but it does give you the ability to use it, and it's in the box, so it can't make any real huge complaints there, but all-in-all guys I think for what Racer was trying to do with this phone, which was built something that's great for gaming and consuming media for their first try I think they hit it out of the park. This is a great phone I, personally love it, and considering this phone retails for about $6.99 feel like you're, getting a lot of bang for your buck when you're getting performance, that's equal to a lot of the flagships out there you're getting stock, Android and specs and hardware that leads to tangible results that you can actually experience in the real world. I think this phone is a goodbye, guys razor is not a sponsor I'm, not getting paid to say this, but if you are looking for a good phone, I think this is one that you should definitely have on your list, but that about wraps it up for this video guys. Hopefully you enjoyed it if you did be the cool guy or girl that gives this video a thumbs up and, of course, I'll catch.

You guys in the next one till, then, is your average consumer peace.

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