Razer Phone Unboxing! By Droid Life

Hey guys how's it going Tim here again for Droid life, bringing you another video. This time we are taking a look at the all-new Racer phone. The phone was announced earlier this month, and now we have it in house, and we are super excited to get our hands on this phone that is labeled as a gamer's phone. First, I guess we'll take a look at the Box retail packaging on the side. Here, we've got the Racer insignia, of course, with the Racer logo as well, and then on the back side. Here just shows you the contents of the box, but let's just go ahead and dive right into it.

Have a piece of paper here: try and hold it up while I read it down, read just the first sentence: I won't read the whole thing: whether you're watching movies in bed. Listening to music on your run or kicking virtual ass on your commute, you need a device that delivers breathtaking visuals, cinematic audio and the power to last all day, introducing the Racer phone. So definitely nice a little touchy area. I mean you can tell that Racer I think put a lot of effort into the creation of the of this device. You know the specs that they were going to include and pretty much the overall experience that one was going to get from their first kind of Android, smartphone I will say you can't really get the phone out too well here.

I do have a piece of plastic. Oh, there we go piece of plastic. I can pull on so here's the hardware right now I will strip this away for them. We of course have to dive into what the rest of the box has and oh there's the phone I can tell you right off the bat that it is big, and it is heavy alright. So let's just go ahead, and we can turn it on here, and then I'll set it aside.

Oh, look at that beautiful boot up logo. There Racer logo powered by Android that looks fantastic. If you're a gamer I'm sure you know the Racer company, they make peripherals controllers, mics keyboards everything you might need for your PC gaming needs. So again, this packaging actually very nice. It has these little folding section here, and then we dive in, and we've got more boxes.

This right here. You've got your paperwork all that good stuff. This section right here we have what appears to be uh, uh your little headphone adapter. The phone does not have a 3.5 millimeter, headphone jack, so USB type-c to a 3.5 millimeter headphone adapter is included. Thank You Racer it's the least these companies could do.

You know they're, taking away our headphone jacks, and it's not like this phone doesn't have room for one. But hey! That's alright! Moving on here we have an assuming the data, cable, USB, type-c data, cable, yes, sort of textured cord sort of wrapped looks rather nice. Good quality feels like good quality, at least we'll have to find out them. Ok, I'm trying to make everything look just as nice as how it was shipped, but when you've got so many little pieces odds and ends its kind of hard to do that there we go alright and then last but not least, we have your USB type-c or your power adapter. If I can get it out there, we go look at this thing.

That is brick again. Has that Racer logo on it looks very clean, very nice, very premium, Racer logo on both sides, very cool- it looks great everything, looks and feels very, very premium, just I guess, as you would expect, from a $700 smartphone. Very nice I mean, but this is an eye. I mean sure you could buy $1000 Galaxy, Note 8 and this stuff feels like better quality than that stuff. But you know Samsung is mass-producing at a huge scale, so either way, let's go over some specs here, brighten up the display a little.

If we can there, you go welcome and super specs on the front side. Here we have a 5.7 inch, LCD q HD, it's 2560 by 1440 display the what's nice about this phone in particular, is that Racer has created this display that has up to a refresh rate of a hundred and twenty. So you know when you're scrolling, through your phone playing games, you know, with the higher refresh rate things are going to look smoother, not as jittery or stutter, so definitely looking to dive into that with the mobile gaming. But you can't dial it back, so you can customize the refresh rate, if you like I mean this is something that really a lot of, maybe just casual. You know.

Phone users won't really see or kind of experience, but it is there and from what I've heard so far, it is actually rather cool. So inside the device is a Snapdragon 835 processor, complete with eight gigs of RAM 64 gigs of built-in storage. It does offer micros support for expandable storage, here's the bottom side and that USB type-c port on the left side. Here you've got your volume up volume down just little buttons. It's not a rocker.

Actually, a nice little touch there plastic. You can hear actual physical clicks, which is cool on the top side. Here you have your mic and then on the left side. Here you've got your. This is where your sim is going to go as well as your micros, but then right here you've got your power button which doubles as your fingerprint reader.

So if you're right-handed, you can use your thumb to unlock it or if you are left-handed, you can use your index finger middle finger. However, you want to hold the device, it will work on the backside here we do have dual cameras and razor when in depth at their unveiling of them. With these cameras, one is a 12 megapixel F point one, seven, five wide-angle lenses as well as a 13, megapixel, F 2.0 lens, so you've got two cameras here. I would assume they are quite capable with high megapixels and decent aperture and then on the front side, of course, is an 8 megapixel camera right there. So moving on again on the inside, you have a four thousand William hour battery, so powering this huge 5.7 inch display in this tank body, four thousand William hour battery I mean that is pretty massive, does have a quick charge for plus. So you should be getting a lot of juice in a short amount of time.

So that's definitely a plus. As you see here, we've got two front-facing speakers, one on the bottom, one on the top, and I'm assuming they get pretty darn loud. They are Dolby Atmos, stereo speakers, dual amplifiers and as well as a THX, certified a sound system. I guess you could call it so whether you've got your headphones on and you're hearing that THX certified sound or you're. Listening with these Dolby Atmos speakers, everything should sound pretty good.

Your game should sound good. Your YouTube video should sound good. Other specs include Bluetooth, 4.2 does have NFC and of course, it is available for carriers such as AT&T T-Mobile, unlocked so unlock GSM carriers. If you're on Verizon I, don't think it's going to work for you, I'm, very, very sorry about that and moving on, though it should be a pretty bare-bones stock. Android experience I'm going to go ahead and set it up.

We can take a look at the software and all of that, and we'll be right back alright, so we've got the razor phone all booted up here and, as you can see, it is a pretty bare-bones stock Android. Now one nice thing is that, unlike a lot of other phones, actually this might be the first phone to ever do it, but this comes preloaded with Nova, Launcher and Nova, prime typically, it's like a five dollar custom launch or application. You can download on Google Play. This phone just comes with it, but with that launcher comes a custom theme store in that theme store. You can change up application icons.

So, as you can see, racer has its own kind of green theme going on here for phone camera, calculator etc. , and you can change those up right on the fly through. That theme store there's a lot of different games or like kind of app developers or game developers that created their own packs, licensed packs, and so, if you're, a hardcore gamer, you can get those custom icons on your phone super easy as I was saying, though pretty bare-bones I wouldn't necessarily call this a skin at all. It looks like they just kind of tweaked up the colors a bit to kind of go with a raised razor's theme, but as I was mentioning earlier about the display, and you can change up the refresh rate underneath the display settings menu the third option, there is refresh rate and out of the box, it comes set at 90 Hertz. You can tone it down, sixty Hertz or you can up it all the way up to a hundred and twenty Hertz and I mean to my eye.

It doesn't really necessarily change much I mean, of course, everything seems smooth, but I haven't opened up any applications or done any web browsing or anything like that. So that's something we're definitely going to be testing out, but as I was talking about, these front-facing speakers do have Dolby sound, so Dolby Atmos. So if you dive in here, you can change up sort of the EQ, the quality filter. That's being you know, toggled. So if you're playing a game you can switch to game, you can set your own custom play a little demo to see what the speakers are capable of.

I did the demo and I had to sound up halfway, and these things are extremely loud, so I don't think I have to worry about blowing them or anything, but they do get very loud. One other thing I wanted to touch on inside here. The wallpapers. Have you tapped on the Razor option? Racer preloaded, a lot of options here for the wallpaper and a lot of them do look really cool, so props to racer for doing that. I'm, a big wallpaper guy so anytime that there's a really neat wallpaper I can use I'm always for it.

So here it is the phone cost. $6.99 is up for order right now in the US. If you are interested, you have any questions, or you know, comments about the razor phone feel free to drop them down in the comments below be on the lookout for a full review tips and tricks all that fun stuff coming later down the road and until then, we're Droid life bass.

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