Should You Purchase a Razer Phone? Let’s Find Out! 📱 By Barnacules Nerdgasm

Hey, what's up guys Jerry here, AKA barn, aches, and today we're going to be reviewing a brand-new smartphone from a company that has brought you such things as Led, infested, keyboards, led infested, mice led infested, laptops, led infested, headsets and pretty much anything they can glue a LED onto razors. Now I've done some smartphone reviews on the past. If you remember I, read you'd the original OnePlus, and now they're up like the 1 plus 5 or the 1 plus 6 I, also reviewed my iPhone, nothing special there. But I did it now for me to want to review a smartphone. It has to offer something unique case in point: the Samsung Galaxy Note s7. You remember this used to blow people's hands off and was banned from Airlines I never sent mine back because it's cool, even though they bricked the firmware, and you can't charge it anymore.

So you might ask yourself what makes the razor phone unique now I've already been using it for a week, and I'll tell you right now: it's got a hundred and twenty Hertz screen. No other phone right now has that that is completely unique to the razor phone, and it does that it quad HD resolution, which is 1440p I, know you're. Thinking like it should be 4k right, quad HD 1080p, but it turns out 720p HD too, who would have thought all right? Well, first, it comes in this badass box. Right here now here on the end is a magnetic clasp. You just open this up right here, fold it over and then inside.

You got this nice little note from Racer written on parchment paper, and it reads: mm-hmm introducing the razor phone, the device you hold in your hands in the culmination of our blood, sweat and toil that began years ago, when we brought some of the most of the talented designers and engineers, the mobile industry under one roof, all with a single mission to deliver the ultimate mobile entertainment and now the razor phone is finally yours to enjoy whether you're watching a movie a bit listening to music on the runner, kick in virtual ass on your commute, you need a device that delivers breathtaking visual, cinematic, audio and power. To last all day, the razor community is built to connect those who seek the winning edge or simply enjoy the most immersive experience. I'm, actually collaborating with another YouTuber. It's CWC technologies run by a guy named Chad Christian. He is an awesome dude we're giving away two of the razor phones.

I will give you all the information you need to enter the giveaway at the end of this video. You bet your ass I'm gonna, make you watch it. Let's look inside. No, yes, I did go through and repackage the phone in the box just to do the unboxing I already took everything out and put it back, but yeah the phone just comes with us nice little Villa theme here there you have if it's kind of sexy. I will tell you right now, though.

The first thing I noticed it is the box stone in the world. Never before has a phone been made, this square. It looks like they just stuck in a press break and just kept on going. Alright. What else is in the box? You go ahead and open up this little flap.

This packaging is badass and inside you have a series of boxes with little graphics on it. To tell you, oh, this is the cable, that's the charger. This is another cable and some headphones and something else in there that I die. I, don't know it's in that box. Let's quickly get through this part, alright, the first one has got some stuff, and it's got the little thing you need for taking out the SIM card and put in the SIM card in and some stickers in case, you want to bedazzle your bedroom door.

It also looks like you have a little instruction manual here. That tells you what is in the box as far as cables. Of course, it's you know their little green and black color scheme that they use on everything alright see. What's in this box right here, this one looks like it's headphones and USB. Alright, it's part of this thing open and all the boxes like slide out really nice with these foam pieces, they're all nice and recessed, so there's no like bouncing around stuff in the box.

Alright. So this looks like it is a USB c2 audio, and you know why, because there's no audio jack on this all the cellphones now are getting rid of the audio jack really makes me feel old, alright, moving right along. Let's take this box out see what's inside here, got more foam. It's actually a really, really supple. Nice foam.

You see, there's nothing in that box because I already took it out earlier forgot to put it back. Alright. What's inside this box Oh much of the same much of the same? Oh man, oh it's because I already took it out. They need to charge the damn thing earlier. Anyways inside there would have been an AC adapter.

It looks exactly like this. Alright, let's keep going hey. The box clearly has a picture of headphones, and it's just a headphone jack Apple includes earbuds, come on razor, alright, so that's! What's in the box, you can see the packaging is actually quite cool and that's why I wanted to show it to you guys, plus on the end of the box. It says alright. Now, since I've been using this phone for a week, of course, it's already charged up, and it's already set up, but if you guys would like to see me going through the setup, it's actually pretty funny.

Overall, my Instagram page I did a full video on how to set it up from start to finish. It might have said a few funny things: I'll link it in the video description. Oh, let's boot, her up razor, it's powered by Android you're wondering it's. It's its an Android phone razor. They want to make.

Damn sure you know it's a razor needs a passcode. You guys can't see this part razor now. The first thing you notice, when you log into the phone, is that the screen is super-duper smooth. However, out of the box, it was set to 90 Hertz, not a hundred and twenty Hertz as they advertised them. Yes, and they probably do that because they're trying to boast some pretty good power numbers on the phone, but of course you're not gonna, leave it at that now.

The first thing you notice, when you log into the phone, is how smooth the screen is and how responsive it is now most of the Android devices that I've owned to date, there's always been leg in the input on the screen and a little of jumpy graphics. This thing is absolutely butter smooth, that's way smoother than my iPhone 7, plus that I have I'll. Tell you that right now, it actually is pretty amazing. Also, this video doesn't do it justice, because this video is only 60 frames per second, because that's all YouTube do I wish. I could show you just how smooth 120 frames per second looks now.

The color depth on the screen is absolutely insane guys. I have not seen another phone with a better screen than this one. It's a 1440p display with up to 120 Hertz. Now, if you don't want 120 Hertz, you can actually go into the settings and drop it down to 60 or 90. If you want to conserve battery life.

But again, if you buy this phone, it is literally 90% for the screen and the audio everything else on. It leaves a little to be desired now everything that you open on this phone is instantaneous. This is a fresh boot on this phone. Let's go ahead and just open something up like Twitter, so click Twitter there I am logged in there's. There's my Twitter feed I can come out of my Twitter feed.

Let's go open up something quick, splat Barclays! That's that that's my official game. If you guys are wondering you can go, get it on Android or iOS. Now, I can show you guys how loud the audio is. It's way louder than an iPhone, but I will tell you right now that it lacks any kind of bass. It is.

Furthermore, it is very tinny, it's very trebling, but if you're gaming, and you want stereo sound you'd want to put headphones on. Furthermore, it's awesome when you turn it sideways, so also because the phone is perfectly square, it's actually pretty easy to hold when you're gaming and there are no buttons right here to physically touch. So, while you're gaming and moving the phone around, you don't have to worry about accidentally, touching anything which I think is pretty cool for a gaming phone you're, less splat uh, some barn aches is here all the scores on this are posted globally to get them all, don't get the trolls. This screen is amazing, though, in the audio, even though it's not the best sounding audio, it does give you that stereo effect, which is really cool. Oh no, and a bit damn this Callum Costa guy is killing it up here at the top I, don't know how I got that score: you're a cheater, Callum you're, damn dirty cheater, so you're, let's try a game that was designed for this phone.

Let's open up, let's go play. Let's see it came with this gear Club, which is really cool. It's kind of like four, is our Grand Tourism, but on the phone, my son Wander really loves this game. You have to continue well, I got to put on the rack there. We go, but the graphics do: move really smooth they're, perfect quality graphics to upgrade alright screw all the sub grade.

Stuff I just want to race, you just hold the / gas or brake. Here we go sorry about my lights on the ceiling, guys it's reflected a little going to be a perfect tech. Tuber I'd get a studio, yeah boy of it. It's so smooth, though guys it's every bit as smooth as if you're playing on like Xbox One, the graphics are actually really, really good for a cell phone breaks roots. There are spawns without leg to the accelerometer inside the phone too, which is good while trying to drive we'll look at the camera.

That's not smart, she's locked by now, because there's no physical buttons on the screen, yet the swipe up from the bottom to get the standard, Android buttons to open and flip through your apps and close them. Everything is completely fluid on it. I couldn't be happier with the actual performance when it comes to opening things or moving between apps and multitasking. The phone is blistering quick. Now.

The reason it's so fast is that it has a snapdragon 835 processors in it, which really gives it a lot of kick and as a 4000 mAh battery pack, which is a lot more battery than almost any other cell phone I've seen now. They do boast good battery life on the thing, but again that's out of box with the screen brightness set on auto. That's with the screen set at ninety hurts not 120 Hertz. So of course, if you're using the higher frame rate you're going to eat up a lot more battery, I even found playing on it for just a couple of hours, I was able to kill a battery when I was playing a game like the racing game, with everything maxed out. So if you're going for battery life, make sure that you turn that stuff down now I thought I was gonna, be put off by there not being a physical button on the front of it kind of like the home button, but I don't miss it at all, because now I can hold it much like a game controller and I try to do that with like an iPhone, for instance, I don't have a good experience.

I always end up tapping that damn home button now, instead they've located the buttons on the side on one side, you have a volume up, and you have a volume down. On the other side, you have a button, that's also a fingerprint sensor. If you want to log into the phone, for instance, you just click on the side, it actually does have a button click and then, if you put your finger over it like that it just logs you right in now, I found the fingerprint sensor on this works flawlessly. I haven't had a failed login on it. In my iPhone 7 plus fails login more than it actually succeeds so way to go razor.

You nailed that one now for comparison here is my daily driver. This is a iPhone 7s and then here's the razor phone, so you can see side-by-side. They look like they have almost exactly the same footprint, except for the razors got quite a bit more screen now thickness wise. The razor is a bit thicker, but literally not by enough to even care now some quick comparisons between the two, first and foremost the iPhone 7 plus screen sucks compared to this now, the camera, with this lighting, isn't going to show you guys that, so you're just going to have to take my word for it. The screen on this is like a million times better, both in resolution and frame rate and color depth.

Now, here's where we run into a couple of things that I don't like about the razor phone after using it for a while first off that same boxy design that makes it conducive is a gaming controller to hold like this also makes it very awkward to hold as a phone. It also feels pretty awkward when you put it your pocket, there's something to be said for these rounded edges on the phone and smooth surfaces versus kind of sharp edges and a square phone when it comes down to actually putting in your pocket and carrying it around, especially a large phone like this. This is bordering on phablet territory. It just it doesn't really work for me now. The other letdown was the camera.

It has two 12 megapixel cameras. One of them is a very shallow depth of field at 1.7 and the other one is a telephoto. Now, on the other side of the phone, you have another 12 megapixel camera now, 12 megapixels for a cell phone camera seems like pretty impressive. I will tell you right now, I, don't know if it's the software or the sensor, but the image quality on it. Just isn't that great, it seems like it heavily processes.

The images now the video tends to look a little better. This is what the video looks like on the phone. It's not bad, but it's not fantastic. It didn't knock me off my feet and for a multimedia. Centric peripheral like this I would have expected it to be quite a bit better.

So here's the front-facing camera you guys can see it. He had a little fan blowing at me here. Those things are awesome: I got a linked in the video description. They're like 4 bucks, I use them everywhere for cooling everything, but you know I got a backup audio recorder that, over there is my new camera. I've got my lights up here, got the camera overhead I got the light here, but this is all being recorded on the phone.

You see my monitor on the screen that I'm using to monitor me. Recording I got a lot of stuff going on here, but this will give you an idea of the video quality. Also keep in mind that I have a massive amount of light in here. Right now, I mean I've literally got that's 120 watt light. That's all that's a one by one panel, that's another panel right.

There I've got the two giant lights on the ceiling there I mean this is like the best conditions you could possibly have. So the video is probably gonna. Look as good as it's going to get now, if you guys are aware of another camera app on Android, that will fix some of these problems and make the camera actually look better. Let me know it's got Dolby Atmos, which is basically like Adobe certification for surround sound. It can use these two speakers and give you surround sound effects.

Now, I'll tell you right now: it is hugely convincing. I even showed it to my wife, and she was like holy crap. My phone's doing that. But again it still suffers from the problem of. There is no bass, it's just a very, very mid and treble e speaker system hell.

Even the speakers on the iPhone had more bass than this, but they're, just not nearly as loud I. Think a lot of the volume that they're stretching out of this thing and a lot of the audio effects that they're stretching out are at the cost of the low end. The bottom and the bass, the meat, the potatoes, but I'll admit the Dolby. Atmos demo is pretty damn cool. I mean they're.

Quite literally sounds like you: have a 7.1 surround sound system around your head, and it fills the whole room, but again, I couldn't find very many things that supported Dolby Atmos. They say it supports HDR on the screen. That's high dynamic range, but it only supports it in the Netflix app I. Don't understand why they couldn't do something like Windows tended, for instance, on the PC and just allow you to enable HDR for everything and just widen the gamut. If it doesn't natively support it.

I don't like that. The phone has features the only very few things work with now. It is for all intents and purposes, an Android phone, so it's going to do everything in Android phone can, and it's actually gonna. Do it better than most phones and for making phone calls I popped. My sim in there and I made a call that actually sounds perfect, but you'd expect it to with the damn speaker system that has on it, especially if you like to set your phone down and doing hands-free calling, especially when you're driving the car, the speaker in this you'll be able to hear the people a lot louder and a lot clearer than any other phone that I've used now the phone weighs in at 197 grams.

It's not an incredibly lightweight phone. However, it does explain it away because it is all glass in metal, it's actually the Corning Gorilla Glass 3 and the whole back of its metal. The sides are metal. The tops are metal when you pick it up, it feels like an industrial design. It feels like definitely something that you'd use as a factory worker to beat your coworkers with and steal their lunch money.

It also has 8 gigabytes of ddr4 memory in it. That's really fast and 64 gigs of storage. But what makes this really cool is that it supports up to 2 terabytes of memory expansion. Do you know of another phone that has 2 terabytes of memory I? Don't now the processor in it is 1866 megahertz which, for a cell phone is cooking, but I will tell you this. If you play a game on this one of the graphical games like drive Club, for instance, you are gonna, go to the hospital for third-degree burns.

If you thought the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 would burn your hands off nope. This is the candidate. That's gonna! Do it. If you guys are wondering this actually is a real Samsung, Galaxy Note 7 I decided not to send it back after they did the recall because they were blowing up on people just because it's too damn cool man, the surrounding stigma I'm keeping it the graphics, are so smooth guys. So smooth I normally use an iPhone for business stuff, just because it's so easy and so straightforward, but as far as a gaming platform it sucks.

This is amazing per game and the graphics are better than Nintendo's wit and something that's much smaller and fits of your pots so smooth. Now, unfortunately, it doesn't have Android 8.0 Oreo on it. It's still on seven, but Racer has told me that they are releasing an 8.0 update soon, I don't know exactly when, but soon, however, it does seem like they truly vetted it. On the hardware, every other Android device I have I, have constant apps hanging and crashing, and I've had big problems with the quality of the applications. I've noticed that things run a lot smoother and a lot more stable on this I, don't know if it just because it's a faster platform, so it's less vulnerable to timing issues and stuff and software, but it does seem to run everything fantastic, and it's got so much memory in it.

You can just run all your apps and never close anything at one point. I was like the phone finally started. Slowing down, and I opened up my app list and there must have been over a hundred apps in there. You guys can tell I've been using the phone. It's got quite a few applications on it now because I'm, a total, cheap, ass, guys I just tether it to my iPhone, because that way they can share the data connection and since I'm not using it to make phone calls I'm using my primary phone to make phone calls.

I still have internet access on this one on the go, and it allows me to have two cell phones with one plan. Another thing: that's cool about this phone is its only $700 now I know I say only there's, obviously, phones that are cheaper than that, but if you think about it for a second, when you're looking at all the iPhones like the iPhone 8 and iPhone X and everything, you know, the bottom line models are coming out around $1000 the Samsung Galaxy, Note, 8 and stuff come out around a thousand to $1200. You know it's nice to see a phone that has a 1440p screen a kick-ass, fast processor, a ton of battery all in something that's only $700. Honestly, that's a good price. I mean I'd pay that all day long for this, even with its faults, I haven't had any crashes or reboots on the phone.

Like I said it's been completely stable. The fingerprint sensor works great everything's good, so I would tell you right now that I would absolutely use this as a secondary phone. But if you guys are okay with a camera that isn't necessarily the best, you don't care about how hot it gets, because you already got cold freaking. You just want to heat your hands, or you just want to stick it onto the blankets at night living in Antarctica and heat your body, all nice and warm, then I would see this phone is otherwise perfect for you, and also the loudspeakers I wish the iPhone had loudspeakers putting loudspeakers on a phone like this reminds me of another phone. They tried to do the same thing.

You guys remember the HTC surround you popped out the top. That was just one big speaker array across the top, and it was super loud yeah that bombed hard, but this one didn't because Racer did it right. I also love how fast the voice search works on it. Ok, Google takes a screenshot, ok, taking a screenshot to continue. Ok, Google, open, quick, splat, Barclays, aha, opulent studios, baby I know total shameless plug total shameless plug, but please and go give it a try.

Quick splat, barnacle ease it's on the Android Marketplace Google Play, and on the iTunes Store just do a search for quick, splat or just search for barnacle ease. Honestly you're, not gonna, find anything else in the marketplace named barnacle ease, so guys is a secondary phone I, absolutely love it as a gaming platform. I, absolutely love it as an actual cell phone and the call quality. I love it I, don't like how hot it gets. Furthermore, I think the cameras are fairly lackluster.

Android is still lacking. Some of the functionality that I really liked on iOS, but the flip side of that is Android actually is powerful in many other ways, but that screen is to die, for this is totally worth getting for $700. Honestly, the price is right, which is weird, because razor is usually known for really expensive stuff for what you get, honestly. I, don't consider this that expensive, we're going to be giving away two of these phones in February. If you guys want to sign up to try to win one of the phones, the directions are in the video description.

It's seriously just your standard, run-of-the-mill gleam I/o contest and if you guys are win. If you were one of the winners, we will get this mailed out to you internationally. So you guys don't have to bombard us with message saying: hey as an international as a US. Only we will pay to get this phone to you wherever you are. If you are in fact the winner all right guys, if you have any other further questions about this phone, please leave them down below in the comments or come over to Twitter and tweet me.

I am at Barnacle E as a matter of fact, I'm at Barclays, most places on the Internet, including Instagram, and over on the book face. I also have a live stream over on twitch TV forward, slash Barney Cheese called morning coffee with barnacle ease where I just get real with you guys and take it to a whole different level. But if you'd like to check that out, I have the link down in the video description, along with a lot of other useful things and links and all the specs and stuff on the phone. Just in case we missed anything in the video I hope you guys enjoyed this video. If you did, please slap a like on it and consider subscribing to the channel to get notifications for when I make more content.

Just like this or possibly completely different or 3d, printing or some other random because I got ADHD up the wazoo. Alright guys I love you til next time and for you guys entering the giveaway, may the odds ever be in your favor.

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